Sentences with word «penance»

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

A cynic might say Singer is atoning for having penned the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate; as for the director, one assumes he's not making up for the cinematic war crime of having helmed The Cobbler so much as doing penance for playing a poorly drawn journo in The Wire's final newsprint - stained season.

To get an idea of what I mean, here are the two instances when I expressed an opinion worthy of doing penance yesterday:

It dragged on for ages and while the cinematics were pretty, whichever team made the actual mode should be forced to play through it at least once as penance for making such a horrible thing.

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.

So fast forward (really fast forward since she died less that 8 months after that first stroke) I figured out that reincarnation (which I believe in) also tells the tale of penance on earth being paid for past lives.

The other chief disadvantage of Penance Services is that they provide no opportunity of return for the lapsed and loosely attached, who will not know the dates and times of such celebrations, and may feel embarrassed by their very communal nature.

Chinese dynasties were shaken when people held the corruption of the Emperor and his mandarins to blame for devastating floods; European and American communities into modern times declared days of public penance as an answer to droughts.

REPENTANCE not PENANCE.

His case was eventually referred to Rome, where he was found to be innocent of actual heresy but ordered to reject sixteen Lutheran propositions and do penance at the convento of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

Make penance fun for both you and your furkid by getting physical together.

His answer is a synthesis of the theme of offence against the divine honour based on the analogy of the feudal lordship and the sacramental practice of penance with its suffering proportionate to the extent of guilt.

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

Certain animations (like Ghost Rider's Penance Stare) appear unfinished.

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.

She suggests that the sacrament of penance leads us «to understand individual wrongdoing not in legalistic terms as a violation of the law (which it sometimes is) but as a violation of relationships.»

It is not that he is passing on your confession God can hear your confession anywhere, but the priest guides you towards how to spiritually reconcile the sins you have committed and how to atone through penance.

By seeking the sacrament of penance before receiving Holy Communion again, such men could be helped in their firm purpose of amendment, and their struggle with a damaging compulsion, both by being reminded of the need for serious and sincere repentance, and by experiencing the joy of receiving the Lord with a heart that has been purified by the grace of God.

He lived as a group monk, prayed his office and practiced penance, and did all the things he was supposed to do.

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

Goodman opined, «As for Mr. Rooney, he is doing the required penance for an inflammatory remark that he did or did not utter.»

Lent is not about penance.

I change it up with Acme's Multi-grain Spelt loaf, which sometimes feels more like penance than bread.

Is the Other performing penance or will it rise up?

To stay and pray, offering penance to the Lord for all the souls in your parish would be a better strategy.

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.

What??? They gave penances just for being found chatting after dark in a totally innocent way, because monasteries were about «spiritual athletic training» (East) or «spiritual soldiering» (West), and either way you were supposed to be sleeping in your own cot after lights out.

After her divorce, she changes her name by deed poll to «Cheryl Strayed», and embarks on a solitary journey that will become a kind of personal penance.

As explained elsewhere in the paper: «While the Bishops have given us definite guidelines to follow in the matter of Lenten penance, and these may not be lightly disregarded, still the individual can and should judge for himself whether he has valid reason to be excused from these precepts.»

Practical penance no. 2: I promise to desist from incorrect statements about the bishops» speaking and voting record.

Practical penance no. 1: I repent of my church's complicity in discrimination against homosexuals.

His character's misadventure — might be a kind of cosmic penance.

The heavy spot stars James Cromwell, and features a meat marketer in confessional seeking penance and forgiveness the language he's devised to convince consumers that their meat is humanely killed.

The many penance's said to have been enumerated by the ancient lawgiver Manu form the core of the ancient Indian criminal code.

During Lent, a season in which the great sacraments of Baptism, the Eucharist, and Penance come into high relief, it is good to think on that, pray over it, give thanks for it — and perhaps resolve, in the future, to avoid imagery and language that suggests that «this is our Church.»

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

Latvia will not recover even its 2007 pre-crisis GDP peak until 2016 — an entire lost decade spent in financial penance for believing neoliberal promises that its real estate bubble was a success story.

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

The bishops tried to live up to their moral obligations to keep it from happening again by reassigning priests and assigning penance, but child molesters were not viewed as mentally ill until the 1990's so no one understood that it would keep happening.

Even Penance and Anointing have a perfective as well as an obviously restorative dimension.

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.

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

As an indication of the seriousness of the matter, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 decreed that violators of the seal of confession should be «deposed from the priestly office» and then «consigned to a closed monastery for perpetual penance.»