Sentences with phrase «penitent while»

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.

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While the Church does teach absolution of sin, she certainly does NOT teach a penitent can carry forth without consequence.

In «The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light,» the morning sunlight clears up a long - forgotten murder, and the culprit is convicted, while «The Virgin Mary's Child» concludes with heavenly redemption, when «heaven opened up right then and there, and the Virgin Mary descended with the [penitent sinner's] two little sons at either side and the daughter in her arms» in order to save her from flames at the stake.

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.

After all, Our Blessed Lord personally reconciled the penitent thief while hanging on the cross, granting him a plenary indulgence too.

While the liturgical gesture of imposing hands exclusively pertained to the bishop in the ancient Church's reconciliatory rites, it incarnated the Church's saintly members» collective intercession by means of which the penitent's sins are forgiven.

They come to expect few or no penitents, so they go and get on with other things after a while.

In the first work, demonic monstrosities resembling the animals from Bosch paintings claw and attack a silent penitent, while in the second, a host of half human half animal - like creatures from a circus gone awry clutter the foreground and obscure the image from Caravaggio's The Flagellation of Christ visible in the background.