Sentences with phrase «penitents before»

In essence very simple, requiring confession, contrition and satisfaction on behalf of the penitent before a Catholic priest withfaculties from his bishop, confession is the practical difference between heaven and hell.

prayer and attitude, and the «Jew who had made himself a Gentile», here shown as penitent before God.

Not exact matches

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.

True, it is an interruption of our ordinary tasks; we do lay down our work as though it were a day of rest, when the penitent (and it is only in a time of repentance that the heavy - laden worker may be quiet in the confession of sin) is alone before Thee in self - accusation.

Purity of heart is what God requires of him and the penitent demands it of himself before God.

True, it is an interruption of our daily tasks; we do lay down our work as though it were a day of rest, when the penitent (and it is only in a time of repentance that the heavy - laden worker may be quiet in the confession of sin) is alone before Thee in self - accusation.

Before sunrise he had generally confessed a good number of penitents in his own room.

Most medicines need to be given in repeated doses before healing is achieved; dressings on wounds need to be changed frequently to prevent infection taking hold; and so it is with the life of the penitent spirit.

The image of the tribunal, not of justice but of mercy, where the penitent appears before Christ who is both judge and healer, captures something of the peculiar nature of divine justice.

One of the episodes which brought on the crisis of the Oxford Movement was Pusey's suspension from preaching before the University after his sermon of January, 1843, on «The Eucharist a Comfort to the Penitent.»