Sentences with phrase «of prayers of confession»

The problem is solved if an entirely different approach is used — namely, to show that one aspect of the definition of «God» and the understanding of the prayer of confession are simultaneously given in the analysis of the experience of imperfection.

Not exact matches

Requirements of personal confession of sin, absolution by a priest, fasting, restoration of broken relationships, and the reading of a long cycle of prayers prior to participation in the Eucharist have discouraged frequent reception.

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.

I'm not sure I agree with you on this one, David... Wouldn't teaching about tithing (or, if you prefer, giving) be like teaching about prayer, fasting, confession, Bible study, etc., under the umbrella of other spiritual disciplines?

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.

Each day there will be Mass, morning and night prayer and, on one of the evenings, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and confessions.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Francis prayed that he might be given the gift of suffering as Christ had suffered, and his prayer was granted in the form of the stigmata — another Franciscan novum in the history of the Christian spiritual life, although it was anticipated in Paul's confession to the Galatians that he bore on his body «the marks of Jesus» (Gal.

An opening prayer of confession sometimes does little more than suggest that worship is primarily about our failures rather than God's triumphs.

According to Tradition, Islam is based on five foundations: the confession that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah; prayer; almsgiving; fasting during Ramadan; and pilgrimage to Mecca by those who are able to go.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

With the individual's emergence from his primitive estate as a mere item in the social whole, prayers of confession gained a new dimension — acknowledgment of personal unworthiness was added to national penitence.

All that was said in chapter three about the need of confession of sin and the prayer for cleansing is pertinent here, and need not be repeated.

In contrast, some other prayer forms — including those shaped by the formula of the acronym ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication), so popular in some traditions — may serve to balance elements of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elements.

In Exilic and post-Exilic times, in consequence, the sense of guilt deepened in Judaism and the prayers of confession and penitence became poignant and, at times, almost abject.

Many of us hear several collect prayers every week in worship, including prayers of adoration, invocation, confession, illumination and dedication.

Here belongs the prayer of cleansing that must accompany self - examination and confession:

The faith and the confession of Christians, their suffering, their prayers, their works, baptism and the Lord's Supper can and should attest his preserving and saving presence.

I once prepared a talk called «The Confessions of a Catholic - friendly, Pentecostal - admiring, Reformed Baptist with a Hankering after Lutheranism and a Strong Affinity for the Book of Common Prayer.»

We begin with types of prayer designed to call us to attention, move through praise, confession, intercession, thanks, and so on.

In confession, testimony, prayer and invocation the new prophets emerged as the epitome of their age, infecting virtually all the major Christian denominations with their ebullient, celebratory mood, a joyful seasoning that drew the sting of race, culture, language, creed, status and personal biography.

The principal thesis of the study is that habits of prayer, ascetical practices, including the mortification of the flesh, frequent confession, and the control of sexual fantasies are all essential to chastity and to the overall pastoral effectiveness of the priest.

If these trends continue, the Sunday morning prayer of confession may need rewording:

It reminds me of a man who said to me about his refusal to join in a prayer of confession in our church one Sunday, «Hell, I'm not that bad!»

The funding for this style of theological reflection is, then, from the imaginative genres of Scripture (parables, stories, confessions, prayers, and so on) rather than from philosophical concepts, the other major source for Western theology.

And the last refuge is to regard even this confession of sin, this penitential prayer, as a good work, as a means by which to insure God's grace.

Prayer is communicating with God about many things: love and admiration of God and acknowledging that He IS God; confession of one's sins with the honest intent to try and turn away from those wrongful acts; asking for God's daily care; asking for God's intervention in our lives and those of our loved ones, in a manner consistent with God's will — and just unloading on Him.

I remember reading a list of the five elements of prayer: praise, thanksgiving, confession, petition (for self) and intercession (for others).

This is beautifully expressed in a prayer found in the Book of Common Prayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgivprayer found in the Book of Common Prayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgivPrayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgiveness.

God, at times, has been pictured as a mighty emperor and the worshipper as the most humble subject The traditional prayers of confession in many churches, often dating from the time of the Reformation, seem today to be too groveling.

Prayers, confession and absolution, holy unction and Holy Communion may all be part of the ministry offered to those who are dying.

So far we have illustrated our discussion only with the prayer of confession, which was shown to be especially related to the experiences of imperfection and of dependence.

For instance, in the prayer of confession the confessor is directly confronted with the objective and unalterable fact of actual existence and the heights of possibility which it contains.

I would add that becoming a Christian is more about moving into and accepting the reality of the new kingdom Jesus brought to earth and following Him than about a prayer or confession.

This is why frank confession of sin is appropriate in the context of prayer.

To return to prayer of confession, the act of recognizing guilt in the light of limitless possibilities is a person - creating act.

Of course, we all have our official or quasi-official «authorities»: the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, confessions of faith, the creeds, and so fortOf course, we all have our official or quasi-official «authorities»: the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, confessions of faith, the creeds, and so fortof Common Prayer, confessions of faith, the creeds, and so fortof faith, the creeds, and so forth.

How many of us know and practice prayer in the order: adoration, thanksgiving, confession, intercession, and petition?

(The relevance for the prayer of confession of the awareness of dependence upon the given structures of existence, as well as of the awareness of imperfection, is evident from these comments).

If «God» is the name applied to that dimension of existence in which its boundless perfectibility is seen, the prayer of confession is man's response to this recognition, in the face of his own actual performance.

In terms of content, a distinction is often made between prayers of confession, thanksgiving, petition, intercession, and adoration.

Through all the different forms of communion, and all the diversity of the means which help to produce this state, whether it be reached by a jubilee, by a general confession, by a solitary prayer and effusion, whatever in short be the place and the occasion, it is easy to recognize that it is fundamentally one state in spirit and in fruits.

Therefore the experience of imperfection contains within itself both an aspect of the definition of God and the basis for interpreting the prayer of confession.

Throughout the Bible, effective prayer is shown to include elements of adoration, confession, and commitment, as well...

More of the service is given over to prayers, confessions, responsive readings, Scripture readings, and singing.

How a cynic might delight in our liturgies that come stocked with prayers of confession.

The evening prayer should include also the confession of sin — both to God and to those against whom one has sinned — as well as seeking God's protection through the night when man is deep in the helplessness of sleep.

Hence we must go on to speak of prayer as the confession of our human failings, imperfections, distortions of the divine goodness, and unwillingness to let ourselves be used as channels for that goodness in the decisions we make and the acts we do.