Sentences with phrase «parts penance»

His assignment at this church — which seems to do more business in tourist trinkets than souls — is equal parts penance and abnegation.

Part penance, part performance, these actions leave behind a work that is as much a wall hanging as it is evidence of something darkly destructive.»

Not exact matches

Reconciliation, once called «confession» or «penance,» is an important part of the ministry of the sacraments.

Fasting and penance are an essential part of this annual pilgrimage, but so are works of charity, prayer and meditation.

And if theSacrament of Penance is linked in the minds of the People of God to a concerted effort to become saints, then it will be seen as a true life - line and an essential part of the devout life.

The «sacrament of penance» was part of the range of formal procedures which revolved round the Christian religion.

The Church then said that a Christian who had received the sacrament of penance, could by various good works, the saying of particular prayers or doing such pious works as assisting in the building of churches (by a cash payment) achieve release from some part of, sometimes all of, whatever «temporal punishment» he might still be due to undergo after death.

The text declared that it was heretical to point out that the three parts of the Sacrament of Penance, contrition, confession, and satisfaction are not to be found in the New Testament; it was heretical to say that the laity should communicate in both the consecrated bread and the consecrated wine; it was heretical to say that it was contrary to the will of the Spirit to burn heretics; and soon, along with the more technical doctrinal matters of Indulgences, good works, and free will.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's five - part miniseries, Penance — an episodic, small - screen work that is only being categorized as a movie because it's being screened in theaters — has a simple, pliable setup, pitched partway between folktale and cold - case procedural.

I think going to church and becoming religious was part of being the humbled person she felt she needed to become as penance for allowing her daughter to die.

In doing so Baucus is taking part in a growing tradition of political penance for disgraced members of the secretive horse slaughter caucus, one of the few remaining bipartisan institutions of Congress.

It told the story of War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fighting back against a demon horde as part of his penance for creating such havoc in the first place.

Ten works capture each of its three parts; in hell Dante encounters moneylenders, corrupt clergy, evil sorcerers and other sinners, in purgatory he watches as the negligent and gluttonous perform penance, and in paradise he finds his lost love from youth, Beatrice.