Sentences with phrase «sacramental confession»

It has proved powerfully effective in drawing people back to sacramental confession when it was becoming almost extinct.

In his sermon he declared that sacramental confession was unnecessary.

Generally, legal protections are granted to disclosures made during sacramental confession.

In the case of priests or bishops who are committed to celebrating a publicly scheduled Mass, awareness of grave sin should be seen for the doom - laden prospect that it is, and the obligation of sacramental confession as soon as possible (Canon 916) must be regarded as a grave and urgent necessity.

The importance of the sacraments is highlighted, particularly sacramental confession.

The historic church understood these words as the biblical authorization for sacramental confession.

Varela said the Roman Catholic Church «has conferred to all the priests legitimately approved to hear sacramental confessions, who are in the archdiocese of Madrid during August 15 to 22, the delegated power to remit during the sacrament of penance the excommunication... corresponding to the sin abortion, to the faithful who are truly sorry, imposing at the same time a convenient penance.»

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Eucharistic adoration throughout the night is always filled with young people offering up an unceasing litany ofRosaries, Chaplets of Divine Mercy, songs, and silent prayer, while any priest who sits down and puts on a stole to offer the Sacrament of Penance will quickly find a line of young people forming for confession and could easily spend several hours dispensing the healing power of Christ's sacramental grace to his children.

The prosecution argued not that the seal of confession was irrelevant, but either that Garnet must have heard of the plot outside of the confessional, or that the confession was not sacramental because the plotters lacked true contrition for what they were planning to do.

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.

We know of more than one case where confessions have actually been killed off completely in some parishes because priests have openly discouraged it, to the point of tacitly eliminating it altogether from the sacramental life of a parish.

For Anglican and Roman Catholic priests, confession has sacramental significance, and whatever information is revealed is held in confidence by the seal of confession, with no exceptions.

Many others would agree on the second point, arguing that confession of the apostolic faith means much more than confessing the creed — whether that «more» involves sacramental unity or acting on behalf of justice.