Sentences with phrase «penitential day»

Fortunately for Ruth and the Yankees, a day in the city's jail ended at 4 o'clock rather than at midnight, allowing the one - day prisoners the benefit of the discrepancy between the solar and the penitential day.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

In 1984, John Mellish, pastor of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, was sentenced to 60 days in a Florida jail for refusing to reveal the substance of a penitential conversation with a parishioner who had admitted to sexual abuse of a child.

To preach on the subject and on the sins of the day during the penitential seasons, even increasing the available times for confession as a witness to the value the Church places on it can have surprising effects.

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.

(In appealing to this angelic and gnostic tradition the monks will one day threaten the penitential functions of the ordained clergy.)