Sentences with phrase «make penitence»
The first extreme is to make penitence and forgiveness so easy they come to mean nothing.
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As has become a tradition here on the blog, I've compiled a list of 40 ideas that I hope will help you make the most of this season of reflection, penitence, and preparation.
So we have to think in terms of three groups of «sinners»: Jews who could turn to their heavenly Father in penitence and hope; Gentile sinners for whom hope was dubious, most Jews regarding them as beyond the pale of God's mercy; and Jews who had made themselves as Gentiles, for whom penitence was, if not impossible, certainly almost insurmountably difficult.
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.»
Yet their psychological training tends to accent self - acceptance and to minimize sin, and this makes for an approach which subordinates a basic aspect of the message of Jesus — his call to penitence.
Man - made doctrine = the idea that a bought indulgence, with penitence, can «spring a soul» from purgatory.
We undertake this engagement in search of unity, in penitence for our wounding the body of Christ, and in obedience to the call of the Spirit, fervently hoping that our witness will be made more efficacious and that before the eschaton, we shall come to the day when we can sit together at the table spread by our common Lord, Jesus Christ.
It was our week of penitence and prayer in which we would make our confessions, visit Saint Anne's shrine, and look for God in the emerging springtime, that, when it came, was hardly a spring at all; nothing so vibrant and effusive.
«I was surprised, because for a lot of priests the penitence is a bad thing, but in this case you have your sins forgiven and you are still making the environment better for the future,» churchgoer Aline Pedreira tells Globo.