Sentences with word «penitent»

We can look to him and accept as penitent sinners his going to death for us.

There are profound insights into the priestly mercy of the Sacred Heart viewed from the perspective of the dying Penitent Thief.

Prayer for the Day: «O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.

When it was over, a manifestation of St. Michael the Archangel appeared to penitents in the campus chapel.

Legal observers question whether clergy - penitent privilege applies to denomination accused of covering up crimes.

«No, because my own experience... was that regular penitents came back with exactly the same words week after week.

[25] The holy pastor did not in any way ask people to imitate him, but to anexceedingly overweight penitent who asked him what she should do, he replied, half in jest, «Three Lents».

posits that adherents to any faith are ultimately penitents before empty vesicles.

The phrase «are in love and charity with your neighbors» means that the truly penitent person has already taken the first step toward reintegrating him or herself into the human community whose fabric has been torn by the betrayal of trust a transgression implies.

God will never reject a humble and penitent heart Psalm 51 v 17.

This is the test for your interpretation: are you an ungodly monster waging war under a vandalized cross or a humble penitent living in faith, dependent on the love of God?

In his newly penitent state, Garcés «gave the brethren detailed information of the cruelties committed against the innocent natives in peace and in war.»

We are saved by God's gift in the ministry and death of Christ as we accept these gifts in a humble and penitent spirit and dedicate our lives to God.

It's the story of a young hoodlum in spiritual crisis who unsuccessfully tries to remain pure and penitent while maintaining a life of petty crime.

And her own sins and secrets impel her to consort with one — and only one — penitent soul whose accusing conscience has brought him here: a damaged man, no longer a soldier, who once joined two comrades to defile a teenage girl in the Louisiana wood.

The idea caught on and was perpetuated in medieval art and literature, which often portrayed Mary as a weeping, penitent prostitute.

And if the state can define marriage by diktat, why not other basic human relationships, like the parent - child relationship, the doctor - patient relationship, the lawyer - client relationship, or the priest - penitent relationship?

I'm told I'm angry and throwing stones at a house and people I willingly abandoned and that I need to grow up, return penitent, or finally leave and shut up.

Though penitent now, Jekyll realizes that he has been guilty of great evil in setting Hyde loose on London and permitting him to wreak havoc, abuse, and even murder.

And while rebuking the harsh legalism of certain clergy, he has also warned against «loose ministers» of the Gospel who tell penitents «this is not a sin» when it is.

It is tempting to regard it as a waste of time to wait in the confessional week after week with nobody coming, but the expectation of a lack of penitents becomes a self - fulfilling prophecy.

Among other things, such fraternal correction entailed keeping an eye on the public penitent and when necessary admonishing him within the community.

And even though we also turn penitent for imposing our universalism on the world, there is no escaping it, or the truth of it.

This person won't be in a position of authority or trust - he will never again be a shepherd of men — but should he seek true penitent reconciliation, he might be part of the flock.

I've been told the Romney's have been penitent ever since donating to LDS causes whenever they can.

Feigned penitent acts are in vain if they do not manifest themselves in seriously attempted behavioral changes.

She comes very early to be identified as a converted prostitute with long, flowing and usually red hair, who just before his last trip to Jerusalem anoints Jesus» head (or feet) with an expensive ointment and to the end of her long life remains a somewhat disturbed penitent.

The truly penitent know that complexification is the enemy of forgiveness.

Lent is a season of preparation, and it takes two forms: penitent examination of self and communal observance of fasting and liturgy.

Here, Rossetti is sure of God's mercy and love, and emphasizes it even in the most penitent of liturgical moments.

By the 16th century, paintings of the nourishing breast of the Virgin and Mary Magdalene's penitent breasts were only two among many contexts in which breasts were seen in art.

I remember in the early Sixties in my large London parish on Saturday evenings the marvellous «holy hush» and spiritual intensity as penitents queued up outside two confessionals and kept the priests busy for up to two hours.

As a result there is a really high percentage of penitents throughout the year, week after week.

Around the field, priests hear confessions - with long lines pf penitents — and in smaller tents talks and workshops are offered on a range of topics: the Holy Spirit, evangelisation, discovering the lives of the saints, contemplative prayer.

In this way they, too, bound the excommunicate penitent.

to the awkward penitent, to the passive - aggressive rule keeper.

Faulty catechesis, pressure from family members, habitual custom, may produce penitents, especially prior to Christmas and Easter, who declare they have no sins to confess.

Chick's work also embodies a less penitent strain of cultural paranoia, a kind that has too often characterized the independent fundamentalist tradition in which Chick first professed Christ, and which he never left.

Purporting to absolve an unrepentant penitent brings no one to this realisation.