Sentences with phrase «of penitence»

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

In reality, the Israeli operation has not been much more brutal than Operation Days of Penitence in 2004, Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, or the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war, in which Israel discovered that Hezbollah was a more formidable and organised foe than Hamas.

«the sacrament of penitence requires the personal dialogue between the penitent and the confessor and the absolution by the confessor,» I thought that Jusus became the new high priest, that there was no longer any high priest needing to intercede to God for the people, and thus through Jesus you can approach God directly, without having to go to a priest for some confession ritual.

For what consolation does the Jewish prayer of penitence offer, except the grace of God who forgives sins?

Litany of Penitence (You can find another version in the Book of Common Prayer - I love this litany!)

Gregory takes the case of a parishioner who, let us suppose, having at one point grossly sinned, has now completely desisted from that sin and yet does not wish to go through any semblance of an awkward or embarrassing act of penitence before God for past misdeeds.

Probably the baptism of John was an eschatological sacrament, and may have had in the circle of the Baptizer some peculiar sacramental meaning, but Jesus can scarcely have seen more in it than the acknowledgment of penitence before the coming of the Kingdom.

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.

«It is essential to understand well the sacrament of penitence requires the personal dialogue between the penitent and the confessor and the absolution by the confessor,» Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters on Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday is a day of penitence marking the beginning of Lent, a journey of 40 days to Good Friday and Easter.

I can only imagine what happens when the ashes of last year's palm branches are streaked across one's forehead in a corporate service of penitence and prayer.

: «Russia will spread its [ideological] errors» widely, due to our lack of penitence.

(CNN)- Dropping to his knees before the 10 cardinals of the Inquisition, dressed in the white shirt of penitence, Galileo Galilei was forced to retract his «heretic» theory that the Earth moved around the Sun.

Such Jews were widely regarded as beyond hope of penitence or forgiveness, and their very presence in a house defiled all that was in it (Toh.

It does not tell a story of penitence and reform but rather pokes fun at conventional standards of conduct and ironizes the author's experience.

Now why does Paul, and the early church generally, associate with Jesus this opportunity of fellowship with God on the basis of penitence and faith?

It knows that it must go to the place of penitence.

When a man broke the Law, he came with a sacrifice which was the sign and the symbol and the guarantee of his penitence, and thus the relationship was restored.

But woe to anyone who believes he deserves God's forbearance, especially if he does not have a humble heart and show signs of penitence.

This is «mid-Lent,» or «refreshment Sunday,» a respite from the rigors of penitence.

That's why purple, the color of penitence, adorns our altar and the neck of your preacher.

The solitude and the hours of prayer perhaps of penitence must have strengthened his weak will, also the number of times he had to flee leaving places to hide from the search of the police like a coward must have worn him out.

James said that the ensuing outbreak of penitence often leads students to confess absurdly trivial transgressions.

I feared that perhaps I had been too hard on him, the weight of penitence evident not just in his eyes but in his slumped shoulders and the shuffle of his feet.

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.

They've even chosen a perfect spot to host the embodiments of their penitence: a part of town left devastated and denuded by sinners past — soon to be a fitting tribute to the power of redemption.

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.»

Litany of Penitence 7.

While his daughter read him the seven daily psalms of penitence that were a part of his sentence, the old man sat by the window, where he could watch the planets through his telescope.

Can the church effectively assign a day of penitence or reasonably expect a pilgrimage of preparation to begin and end according to the church calendar?

In the Jewish prayer of penitence, therefore, the man who is hoping for God's pity is not comforted by laying hold of the revealed grace of God, but is consoling himself by a despairing clutch at a questionable possibility.

It is possible to exaggerate the antinomy of grace and law, of penitence and obedience.

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.