Sentences with phrase «prayers of confession in»

God, at times, has been pictured as a mighty emperor and the worshipper as the most humble subject The traditional prayers of confession in many churches, often dating from the time of the Reformation, seem today to be too groveling.

It reminds me of a man who said to me about his refusal to join in a prayer of confession in our church one Sunday, «Hell, I'm not that bad!»

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Requirements of personal confession of sin, absolution by a priest, fasting, restoration of broken relationships, and the reading of a long cycle of prayers prior to participation in the Eucharist have discouraged frequent reception.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

Francis prayed that he might be given the gift of suffering as Christ had suffered, and his prayer was granted in the form of the stigmata — another Franciscan novum in the history of the Christian spiritual life, although it was anticipated in Paul's confession to the Galatians that he bore on his body «the marks of Jesus» (Gal.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

With the individual's emergence from his primitive estate as a mere item in the social whole, prayers of confession gained a new dimension — acknowledgment of personal unworthiness was added to national penitence.

All that was said in chapter three about the need of confession of sin and the prayer for cleansing is pertinent here, and need not be repeated.

In contrast, some other prayer forms — including those shaped by the formula of the acronym ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication), so popular in some traditions — may serve to balance elements of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elementIn contrast, some other prayer forms — including those shaped by the formula of the acronym ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication), so popular in some traditions — may serve to balance elements of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elementin some traditions — may serve to balance elements of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elementin a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elements.

In Exilic and post-Exilic times, in consequence, the sense of guilt deepened in Judaism and the prayers of confession and penitence became poignant and, at times, almost abjecIn Exilic and post-Exilic times, in consequence, the sense of guilt deepened in Judaism and the prayers of confession and penitence became poignant and, at times, almost abjecin consequence, the sense of guilt deepened in Judaism and the prayers of confession and penitence became poignant and, at times, almost abjecin Judaism and the prayers of confession and penitence became poignant and, at times, almost abject.

Many of us hear several collect prayers every week in worship, including prayers of adoration, invocation, confession, illumination and dedication.

In confession, testimony, prayer and invocation the new prophets emerged as the epitome of their age, infecting virtually all the major Christian denominations with their ebullient, celebratory mood, a joyful seasoning that drew the sting of race, culture, language, creed, status and personal biography.

Prayer is communicating with God about many things: love and admiration of God and acknowledging that He IS God; confession of one's sins with the honest intent to try and turn away from those wrongful acts; asking for God's daily care; asking for God's intervention in our lives and those of our loved ones, in a manner consistent with God's will — and just unloading on Him.

This is beautifully expressed in a prayer found in the Book of Common Prayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgivprayer found in the Book of Common Prayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgivPrayer and the Lutheran Book of Worship, where confession of sins is followed by a request for forgiveness.

For instance, in the prayer of confession the confessor is directly confronted with the objective and unalterable fact of actual existence and the heights of possibility which it contains.

This is why frank confession of sin is appropriate in the context of prayer.

To return to prayer of confession, the act of recognizing guilt in the light of limitless possibilities is a person - creating act.

How many of us know and practice prayer in the order: adoration, thanksgiving, confession, intercession, and petition?

The problem is solved if an entirely different approach is used — namely, to show that one aspect of the definition of «God» and the understanding of the prayer of confession are simultaneously given in the analysis of the experience of imperfection.

If «God» is the name applied to that dimension of existence in which its boundless perfectibility is seen, the prayer of confession is man's response to this recognition, in the face of his own actual performance.

In terms of content, a distinction is often made between prayers of confession, thanksgiving, petition, intercession, and adoration.

Through all the different forms of communion, and all the diversity of the means which help to produce this state, whether it be reached by a jubilee, by a general confession, by a solitary prayer and effusion, whatever in short be the place and the occasion, it is easy to recognize that it is fundamentally one state in spirit and in fruits.

How a cynic might delight in our liturgies that come stocked with prayers of confession.

The evening prayer should include also the confession of sin — both to God and to those against whom one has sinned — as well as seeking God's protection through the night when man is deep in the helplessness of sleep.

Hence we must go on to speak of prayer as the confession of our human failings, imperfections, distortions of the divine goodness, and unwillingness to let ourselves be used as channels for that goodness in the decisions we make and the acts we do.

His prayer is in reality a confession of faith: «Thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth.»

We learn of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession of sins, his attention to the needs of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn of his very deep understanding of how life is transformed through chastity for married and single alike.

The author discusses various kinds of prayer in the traditional motifs — petition, intercession, confession, thanksgiving and adoration.

(2:11) 5 And in the mood of Jeremiah's confessions, but with the «I» changed to «we»: Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity; thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Such things as creeds, confession, the kiss of peace, the Lord's prayer, the gloria in excelsis Deo and the church year belong here.

Each day, at his quarters in Manhattan, he recites his morning prayers, celebrates or concelebrates Mass, hears confessions, and practices the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Constant prayer, confession and union with Jesus in the holy sacrifice of the Mass and at communion prepare us to discern and do God's will.

An extremely pure faculty of healing after confession and conversion on the patient's part, and prayer on the priest's, was quite spontaneously developed in the German pastor, Joh.

It was our week of penitence and prayer in which we would make our confessions, visit Saint Anne's shrine, and look for God in the emerging springtime, that, when it came, was hardly a spring at all; nothing so vibrant and effusive.