Sentences with phrase «private confession»

The answer is very simple and yet touches the ultimate depth of our life: by true private confession and by divine forgiveness of all my sins.

To make it acceptable, however, he replaced the requirement of open personal disclosure with private confession to a priest.

Catholics, as we have seen, have traditionally been encouraged to make private confession to a priest, who offers them absolution.

And there I found pastors referred to as priests, worship called a «mass,» private confession encouraged, and the Lutheran assertion — against Roman charges otherwise — that Holy Communion was retained, celebrated with reverence, and offered every Sunday.

In April 1533 Luther was again in contact with Nuremberg about Confession, insisting, with Melancthon, that both public and voluntary private confession should be retained.

Although far from exemplary in his private and public life, Henry was regular in private confession and in hearing mass.

For there are many doubtful matters which a man can not resolve or find the answer to by himself, and so he takes his brother aside and tells him his trouble... We must have many absolutions, so that we may strengthen our timid consciences and despairing hearts against the devil and against God... I will not let private confession be taken from me.

Luther was anxious that the institution of Confession, which he valued highly, should not be abused; nevertheless, one did not have to pretend that authority for it went back to the New Testament: «For although private confession is one of the most salutary practices, we know perfectly well that the authority on which it is based is quite shaky.»

With the help of Bergman's natural talent for scriptwriting, she's directed Private Confessions and Faithless into compelling and potent chamber pieces.

Discipleship is kept through Lord's Supper and private confession of sins.

It must adapt if it is to become a private confession.

Private confession to a priest at least once a year was made obligatory in the thirteenth century.

There was a period for perhaps two hundred years after the Reformation during which Lutherans largely did keep to the confessions in parish practice and congregational life: weekly communion, private confession — the whole deal.

as if that kind of news stays quiet, when even news of Wenger's private confession to close friend leaked out?

Ullmann later directed two of Bergman's screenplays («Private Confessions,» «Faithless»), and among her work as a director is a 2014 version of August Strindberg's «Miss Julie,» starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton, currently available on Netflix.

Her previous works include Sofie (1992), Private Confessions (1996), and Faithless (2000).

Reateaming with Brendan Gleeson, the story follows the In Bruges star as Father James Lavelle, a priest who has just found himself threatened during a private confession and is unsure what to do.

The late Ingmar Bergman's muse, actress Liv Ullmann, has a wealth of acting and a few directing credits to her name (Faithless, Private Confessions).

Mobs of people begin lining up to see the holy quilt, forcing Miriam to make a private confession to her minister: she had spilled coffee on the quilt, leaving a stain that resembled the face of Jesus.

Like in David Hepher's Tree, in which we can wonder about the presence of the council block's inhabitants, here we are met with a sense of the real Emin — the messy bed like a private confession publicly displayed in a gallery space.

Rhoades's Oedipal associations between mother figures and erotic desire, and between fantasies of European cultural sophistication and American consumer capitalism, are not only general sociological observations but private confessions: needy, inadequate and not a little sad.