Sentences with word «penitential»

Included in the psalm literature, of which there is not a little, there are many penitential psalms in which the penitent seeks forgiveness for his sins.

Both festivals are preceded by penitential seasons: Advent comes before Christmas and Lent, which recalls the forty days that Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness, comes before Easter.

The use of ashes in penitential rites has origins in the Old Testament, and the Church continued to use ashes in its liturgical practices for the same symbolic meanings of mourning, penance, and mortality:

Penitential Prayer of St. Augustine 10.

But this stark, penitential day, the first of the 40 days of Lent, is ultimately uncomfortable only if we neglect to place it within the whole of our faith, the whole of the gospel.

They and their successors balk, though, when they get too close to the sermon's true but tacit power: the Church and her comprehensive system of penitential discipline.

In its place was put an individualistic injunction to perform some form of penitential act on Friday.

It seems like the medieval penitential system in multicultural dress — except that at MTS sinners are offered no clear practice of penance that can lead to absolution and reincorporation into the community.

Psalm 51 is one of the seven classic penitential psalms used on occasions of confessing sin.

The future Kingdom of God, then, is not something which is to come in the course of time, so that to advance its coming one can do something in particular, perhaps through penitential prayers and good works, which become superfluous in the moment of its coming.

There is, after all, one «rose» colored candle amidst the three penitential purple ones.

By loosening the hold of the medieval penitential system, the Reformers created a space in which Christians were free to follow the dictates of their own conscience.

There is no glossing the extreme penitential nature of the vocation.

Throughout the Spanish - speaking world there is another tradition that touches the present march, that of Lenten penitential processions... [It is] in the blood of the Mexican American and the Delano March will therefore be one of penance — public penance for the sins of the strikers, their own personal sins as well as their yielding perhaps to feelings of hatred and revenge in the strike itself.

The Jewish fast days (tannic, tzorn) which are always penitential are either public, like Yom Kippur; or are a remembrance of past sad events such as a parent's anniversary of death (yahrzeif) or the assassination of the last Governor of Judah (fast of Gedaliah).

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The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers than the futuristic realms of most science fiction novels.

Perhaps we might even gain a new penitential spirit as we beg God to help our culture before it is dragged even deeper into the quicksands which Pope Benedict has been warning us about.

The tranquil mood projected by The Young Saint John the Baptist is a far cry from the haggard, penitential standing Baptist carved by Donatello a century and a half earlier in a static, pictorially oriented, late - medieval realist idiom.

The birth of the modern prison system (another product of the Enlightenment) was predicated on the possibility of penitential reformation.

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.

And then a theological insight dawns: What if the Christmas tree in Advent is like the one rose amidst purple penitential thorns?

Suddenly, something penitential stirred within me: Advent.

We always give up candy for Lent, but if these are really penitential... Well, I've got a whole year to think about it.

This approach gained momentum during the early Middle Ages when penitential manuals were first written detailing the nature of specific sins and their proper penances.

After much searching and discussion, the church had received her back after appropriate penitential discipline.

Mandatory reporting laws forcing the disclosure of confidential penitential information must be seen as a violation of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

In penitential services, especially those held in schools, it is not uncommon to find non-Catholics, even non-Christians, approaching the priest.

In the midst of our trivial moralizing, our scolding, supererogation, and scrambling for a few penitential brownie points, John reminds us of why we're here.

In a radical departure from tradition, Francis said Holy Thursday Mass not at the ornately appointed Basilica of St. John Lateran, but in a small chapel with nearly 50 teenage boys and girls at Casal del Marmo Penitential Institute for Minors, a juvenile detention center.

In the second order of merit we can signal those which are sacramental, those connected with the praise of God and those which are broadly penitential:

With this in mind, I opened my Book of Common Prayer wondering if I could spend 40 days in penitential reflection without becoming a Calvinist.

While no such congregation exists in the RCA, a growing number of churches have forsaken the traditional pattern of a quarterly and very penitential observance for a more frequent and joyous form of celebration.

But he does insist I attend household services, which are of the unheated, penitential sort.

His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.