Sentences with phrase «many penance»

Despite this, he owns one, which he christened The Indefensible as partial penance for the incongruous luxury.

Robert Chapman Jr., a hedge - fund manager in California, took a potshot at his former friend, observing, «I've heard it said that yoga is Dan's form of paying penance for what he does while outside the home, whether it be the office or elsewhere.

(And posting selfies, for which the aforementioned second - grade nuns would probably make him kneel on No. 2 pencils for an hour as penance.)

Paul posted only two videos in the entire month of January, as a kind of penance for his actions, before posting around 15 videos in February, and 23 videos in March.

And she wants Rogers (which owns this magazine) to pay the same amount in penance for asserting its cut - rate cellular service drops fewer calls than its competitors.

This year - long series of «other crypto» posts is my penance for such a...

Do public penance?

Penance — We fast in order to suffer for our sins.

For masterminds of mass crimes, nothing short of long - term imprisonment can express adequate penance.

«Requires nothing from customers except payment — no penance, church attendance, or personal growth.»

You can love God while sinning against Him, isn't that the point of Confession and penance??

Do penance on St. Joseph's day.

The real question with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth when he says that whatever the Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Put money in the poor box (for penance) light candles to saints (@ $ 1 per candle) say the stations of the cross (for penance) say the rosary (over and over and over..

wear a vermin shirt (now that is penance) Whip yourself with a switch (that's penance!)

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

In «Felix Randal,» the sacraments of penance and last rites are as physical as the farrier's old labor and the illness that ends it.

Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgment and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc., and so by your doubt you make Christ a liar, which is a horrible sin....

There was, to be sure, a pastoral problem of the «troubled conscience» in the late medieval Church, brought about — to oversimplify — by the convergence of certain unresolved issues in Augustine's theology of grace with certain developments in the canon law of penance.

He confessed the transgression to Jennifer and accepted his penance, which was to spend mournful nights on the couch in his office.

Put gravel in your socks (that's penance)(but confess if you cuss the gravel).

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr stand out in maintaining that «penance,» the sacrament of reconciliation, is the nerve - center or headquarters of the seven sacraments.

Cajetan had challenged Luther's insistence that those who come to the sacrament of penance are to believe confidently that they receive God's grace and forgiveness thereby; Luther's main defense appeals to Christ's words in Matthew 16:19:

But the odd preference for penance does call for a deeper phenomenology of confession than theologians have yet put their minds to.

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

The words confirmation, penance, and eucharist aren't in there either, except for the Catholic version, which is an altered Bible.

Lent, of course, is a time for penance and self - denial.

Known as the «Patroness of Mercy,» she was stabbed fourteen times by an attempted rapist, but forgave her assailant on her deathbed, hoping aloud he would find God — which he astonishingly did in prison, serving his remaining days in prayer and penance.

The problem with penance is only a perfect man can do it, but doesn't need it.

Sacraments: Catholic are the only ones to have the concept of the seven sacraments (baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, penance, anointing of the sick, holy orders, and matrimony).

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

On April 10, 1947, he received the sacrament of penance from Fr.

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

They claimed that Mary, in deep sorrow and with repeated solemnity, was calling for prayer and penance.

We are also told during Lent «to unite ourselves to the mysteries of Jesus in the desert» and that «penance should be not only internal and individual but also external and social» [2].

It turned out to be essentially a continuation of what had already been revealed — a plea for prayer and penance, but with an added series of images: a ruined city, a rugged Cross, a Pope shot at with arrows, bishops, clergy and faithful people martyred.

What remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the «secret»: the exhortation to prayer as the path of «salvation for souls» and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.»

In his decree Paenitemini (1966) Paul VI points out that penance is «a religious act which has as its aim, love, and surrender to God.»

In 2017 the Fatima message is what it has always been: prayer and penance, and an invitation to trust in God's love and mercy — to respond with our hearts as Mary responded with hers.

In contrast to gnosticism, the acts of Christian penance, however simple or extreme, are not ends in themselves, but rather acts directed towards both positive growth and edification of the person, and acts of love towards the One who is carefully redeeming them.

He irst tells the anecdote of the most notorious pilgrim, Fulk III, Count of Anjou, who accumulated as penances no less than four pilgrimages to the Holy Land (no spoilers from me, but Stark concludes that maybe that was «far too few» p. 104).

The straight - talking American prelate lamented the fact that while the Second Vatican Council had «called for a renewal of the sacrament of penance», what emerged «sadly, in many places, was the disappearance of the sacrament».

Sincere prayer and honest penance are as necessary in the twenty - first century as they were in the first centuries.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

[12] The idea that the Church in general encouraged extreme penance for all is largely a myth: «Let your fasts be moderate,» says St. Jerome; [13] «use discretion in undertaking bodily penances,» says The lmitation.

Most went barefoot as a sign of penance and many of them prayed for employment or for miraculous healing.

Secrecy is of the essence of penance....

A third sacrament that belongs with baptism and Eucharist for the continuous strengthening in Christian identification with God is penance.