Sentences with phrase «life of penitence»

The wording of the CDF's announcement, that it has decided «to invite the father to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry», leaves it open to the movement to continue to believe that he has been unjustly accused.

As preachers of the gospel it is expected that they themselves have experienced its power; as guides to the life of penitence and faith they need to know directly the nature of the humble and contrite heart.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

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As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

Petition is there, penitence and confession, thanksgiving and praise, the experience of trustful serenity, the affirmation of confident faith, the enjoyment of divine companionship, the inward conquest over temptation and trouble, the rededication of the life to God, the triumphant consciousness of released power.

Maciel that he relinquish his public ministry and devote the remainder of his life to penitence and prayer.

It is a paradox of our faith — but one that Christian living validates — that we should feel assured of our salvation when our lives have been committed to God in Christ; yet at the same time we should «press on,» in humility and continuing penitence, leaving it to God to judge our status before him.

The care of souls was a matter of personal admonition and consolation addressed to men who needed to apprehend in penitence and confidence the forgiveness of sin, the great love of God extended toward them, so that in life and death, in sin and sorrow, they knew they were in the hands of a holy, loving God.

Like this Mary, who lived a life of penitence in the desert, go and sit and speak in the desert of human hearts».

There sin is a deep, inward defilement; goodness is an interior fountain of spiritual quality; penitence concerns what a man is behind what he does; and the desire for a good life calls out the prayer for spiritual rebirth,

However it might be explained, God was known there as holy love, moving to penitence and offering both pardon and a new righteousness, and becoming himself, as thus known, the ground of faith in the ultimate meaning of life and of hope of its fulfillment.