Sentences with phrase «offering penance»

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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.

Do we lead the congregation in embracing those who have waged war justly and, just as important, do we offer returning soldiers the gift of confession and penance as needed?

On the hotly debated question of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, the synod's report offers a solution of the «penitential path» or a period of reflection and penance which would allow the partners in a second marriage to receive communion.

We need to invite people to receive the forgiveness and peace offered by Our Lord in the sacrament of penance.

It seems like the medieval penitential system in multicultural dress — except that at MTS sinners are offered no clear practice of penance that can lead to absolution and reincorporation into the community.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

But the fact remains, and I hold myself fully responsible: Sunday at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts saw me almost running past various displays, silently offering what penance I could — apologizing to statues, begging forgiveness of Egyptian jewelry, and mentally flagellating myself before fresco paintings of the crucifixion.

It leads Don to recognize that Ted is more capable (and more needful) of the opportunity for penance and change a move to California will offer.

At their Low Week meeting the Bishops of England and Wales have wisely and humbly suggested that we use our May Fridays to offer prayer and penance «for healing, forgiveness and renewed dedication».

It's a wonderful way to live if you embrace it for what it is and the opportunity it offers, rather than looking at it as a penance or something to be «treated» with a prescription.

There's also a complete lack of hope that The Lobster offered, as the good doctor is certainly sitting and awaiting judgment, and Keoghan's vengeful angel is the arbiter who gets to decide if he's properly paid his penance.

Each research groups feels compelled to use terms or abbreviations not used by the others to show their degree of independent thinking and, perhaps, in penance (feeling guilty) for our inability to offer real hope to the owners of individual, infected cats.

As penance, we offer up thoughts from five different staffers this week, covering a little bit of everything.

Equifax offered all its customers a year of free credit monitoring as a sort of penance for the breach, but that had its issues.

It will likely be alone in any fights against Washington as the tech industry looks for a sacrificial lamb to offer up in penance for its sins.