Sentences with phrase «public penitence»
In all my life, I never lived in the parish where one person was publicly admonished or brought to public penitence or excommunicated, though there were never so many obstinate drunkards, whore - mongers, or vilest offenders.
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(Judges 10:9 - 10) At the first, therefore, penitence was a public rather than a private matter, and the sense of sin concerned the violated customs of the social group rather than the inner quality of the individual.
This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»
Maciel that he relinquish his public ministry and devote the remainder of his life to penitence and prayer.
The wording of the CDF's announcement, that it has decided «to invite the father to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry», leaves it open to the movement to continue to believe that he has been unjustly accused.
The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), DCP Francis Enobore who spoke on behalf of the Controller General of Prisons, Ja'afaru Ahmed, commended the sponsors and PERMNET members for their support and objective reportage noting that prison connotes an environment where offenders are given opportunity and assistance to show penitence.