Sentences with phrase «practiced penance»

He lived as a group monk, prayed his office and practiced penance, and did all the things he was supposed to do.

It is a slap in the face to Christ to practice penance.

Not exact matches

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

«The practice is observed by all of regarding as an adulteress a woman who marries a second time while her husband yet lives, and permission to do penance is not granted her until one of them is dead.»

Why would Jesus have died on a cross to pay the eternal penalty of sin if He was going to continue that we practice what Catholics call «penance» which no matter how you slice it, means «punishment».

Moore showed that the development of the moral and spiritual virtues depended on simple ascetical practices including prayer and penance.

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.

The Need for Contrition One of the reasons for the decline in the practice of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation is a loss of an understanding of, and a need for contrition.

Penance Services were introduced in recent decades to emphasise the communal aspects of sin and the ecclesial dimension of the sacramental life, and also as a way to reintroduce large numbers of people to the practice of confession.

Here is found also much having to do with ascetic practice, which may end in suicide by starving, if, after twelve years of penance and extreme periods of fasting, one is permitted by his Guru to do so.