Sentences with phrase «through penance»

It is not that he is passing on your confession God can hear your confession anywhere, but the priest guides you towards how to spiritually reconcile the sins you have committed and how to atone through penance.

It was a way of making straight the path for the Lord, which came not through the poinsettias but through penance, through fasting, through contemplation of the mystery of «God with us.»

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But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

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.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

The discipline and penances of the body and soul are born out of an awareness of the evil which exists in the person's attachment to the fallen world through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.They are meant to assist in the purification of these fallen attachments within the human person.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

Well, we can be, but Dan Palotta of the WSJ points to tradition through our Puritan heritage and says charity was their response to the tensions within their doctrine, «they could do penance for their....

Penance is a form of reproving oneself for having done sins in the past through mortification and fasting.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

It does not mean that our satisfaction supplants the satisfaction of God through Christ, but rather means that we work to amend the pain that our sin has caused by concrete acts of reparative penance.

Through the ascetic struggle of prayer, penance, fasting, and sacrifice, the person spiritually becomes the deacon.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

I regret not spending enough time with Mario Kart 8 when it was a Wii U title, but if getting to experience much of its content for the first time through Mario Kart 8 is to be my penance, I've earned myself the best punishment in the world.

The team's two hour romp through includes battles against the Dark Aeons as well as the super boss Penance.