Sentences with phrase &laquo;penance on&raquo;

(And posting selfies, for which the aforementioned second - grade nuns would probably make him kneel on No. 2 pencils for an hour as penance.)

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The real question with which I am confronted when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth when he says that whatever the Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

He confessed the transgression to Jennifer and accepted his penance, which was to spend mournful nights on the couch in his office.

Known as the «Patroness of Mercy,» she was stabbed fourteen times by an attempted rapist, but forgave her assailant on her deathbed, hoping aloud he would find God — which he astonishingly did in prison, serving his remaining days in prayer and penance.

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.

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

What remains was already evident when we began our reflections on the text of the «secret»: the exhortation to prayer as the path of «salvation for souls» and, likewise, the summons to penance and conversion.»

These, Astrue told me, he took on by way of penance for having spent so much time translating Tibullus» less - than - holy love poems, which Oxford probably will bring out in the next year or so.

Why would Jesus have died on a cross to pay the eternal penalty of sin if He was going to continue that we practice what Catholics call «penance» which no matter how you slice it, means «punishment».

Moore showed that the development of the moral and spiritual virtues depended on simple ascetical practices including prayer and penance.

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.

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.

The Fatima drama, with its spiritual insights into the great and tragic events of the 20th century, in the end rests on something of universal importance: prayer and penance.

Surely we need an official period of prayer and penance with special emphasis on the Sacrament of Penance, now so terribly negpenance with special emphasis on the Sacrament of Penance, now so terribly negPenance, now so terribly neglected.

The conversion of Russia will continue, as must our prayers and penances, and events will continue to roll on.

Father Paul Keller is assistant professor of sacramental theology at Mt St Mary's of the West Seminary, Cincinnati, and is also the author of 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing.

Many Catholics, they wrote, «have begun to ask themselves if going without meat on Friday is penance enough.

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

In fact, one teaching among some Catholics have taught that certain Saints of the past have stored up such great masses of good works, that if we pray to them, or perform some sort of penance, then the Catholic church can «draw on» the good works of the saints of the past and credit them to certain people today.

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With respect, it does seem to be getting the cart before the horse, to restore this minor sign of penitential living yet still to neglect the crying need for major re-catechesis on the sacrament of Penance and the penitential life.

Most still have at least nominal times for hearing confessions sometime on a Saturday, but the greater emphasis is on Penance Services twice a year at Christmas and Easter.

With a grand total of 89 cents in the Jar of Contention, I spent an hour and 29 minutes on the roof Monday morning doing penance for a month's worth of complaining, nagging, exaggeration, gossip, and snark.

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Faber's hymn - in the same way that there is much less emphasis on corporal penance, as purgative of sin.

[41] See the section on Tertullian in G. H. Joyce, «Private Penance in the Early Church,» Journal of Theological Studies, Vol.

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

In the apostolic exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, Pope John Paul II reflects on the nature of the sacrament of Penance:

On this basis, he disapproved of penance and confession (ear - whispering), but most of all, he denounced the mass, the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

Next Friday I'll post some photos / video updating you on the biblical womanhood project — specifically my afternoon on the roof doing penance over the jar of contention (scheduled for tomorrow) and my first official etiquette lesson (scheduled for Monday).

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«Whereas prisons are based on retribution, Penance prefers forgiveness to punitiveness.»

In the early Church the sinner was only formally reconciled after doing penance, sometimes public penance in which the parish might join with him on his behalf, for a certain number of days.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

The sacrament of penance and reconciliation entrusted to the Church on Easter day is the merciful means by which we continue to choose life and bring all of our unruly thoughts, words and actions into conformity with Christ.

In 1966, the U.S. bishops released a pastoral statement on penance and abstinence that terminated the traditional law of abstinence from meat on Fridays.