Sentences with phrase «to do penance»

A cynic might say Singer is atoning for having penned the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate; as for the director, one assumes he's not making up for the cinematic war crime of having helmed The Cobbler so much as doing penance for playing a poorly drawn journo in The Wire's final newsprint - stained season.

If a priest absolves the mortal sin why should I have to do penance as the sin has been forgiven?

At the end of the month, each penny represents one minute I have to spend doing penance on the rooftop of my house to simulate what it is like to live with a contentious woman.

In theology we need not weep and wail or do penance in sackcloth and ashes, but anguish would well behoove us.

His case was eventually referred to Rome, where he was found to be innocent of actual heresy but ordered to reject sixteen Lutheran propositions and do penance at the convento of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

To get an idea of what I mean, here are the two instances when I expressed an opinion worthy of doing penance yesterday:

With a grand total of 89 cents in the Jar of Contention, I spent an hour and 29 minutes on the roof Monday morning doing penance for a month's worth of complaining, nagging, exaggeration, gossip, and snark.

Next Friday I'll post some photos / video updating you on the biblical womanhood project — specifically my afternoon on the roof doing penance over the jar of contention (scheduled for tomorrow) and my first official etiquette lesson (scheduled for Monday).

At one stage of that desperate first period they had two men doing penance while the Reds were at full strength, but the Russians muffed this big opportunity.

But if this guy wins, all hopes of getting errant politicians to do penance anywhere but a CNN studio is gone forever.

It supplied both food and a place for monks to come do penance or for spiritual retreats.

Of course, they already say that now, when judges force them into doing penance for comparing climate scientists to child - rapist and denial poster - boy Jerry Sandusky.

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....

«If he were half the God he claims to be,» Harrington blasphemes, «he would leave his heaven and come here to do penance in the presence of a suffering that he as God obscenely permits.»

After getting sober and doing penance by shucking a million oysters in New Orleans (seriously, one million, he counted), Jones heads to London to round up old friends and get back on top!

After doing penance — shucking 1 million oysters at a New Orleans dive — he heads to London to revive his career.

«The practice is observed by all of regarding as an adulteress a woman who marries a second time while her husband yet lives, and permission to do penance is not granted her until one of them is dead.»

He even humbled the Emperor Henry IV, forcing him to submit at Canossa, in north Italy in 1077, and to do penance.

Since the fugitive showed «signs of conversion and detestation of his past life, and desired to do penance (of which he later did a great deal),» they accepted him as a postulant.

Have you done penances?

Because we needed to do penance?

This is why she suffers and does penance for these offences, of which she has the power to heal her children through the blood of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Anyone who is aware that they have committed a grave sin should not receive Holy Communion until they have confessed that sin, done penance and made a sincere effort to change their life.

The bishops have therefore decided that the best way of carrying out our Lord's command to do penance is for each of us to choose our own way of self - denial every Friday.»

If, coupled with this formation, priests are committed to pray and do penance on behalf of their penitents - «saving souls» to use an old - fashioned term - they will be better equipped to give pertinent advice and appropriate penances.

Perhaps this is why Our Lady at Fatima in 1917, foreseeing the contemporary threats to peace, asked us to pray and to do penance — as she had in Lourdes in 1858.

Certainly the extent of our moral disintegration is connected with a religious disintegration but we can not even come in sight of a radical religious recovery until the churches and the people of this country begin to do penance for the way we have tried to pour the new wine of the gospel into some peculiarly American bottles.

He relates what it was that sustained him: «I think that a bishop, in order to fulfil his role, must do penance, fast, listen to the Lord and pray for long periods in silence and solitude» (p. 70).

I went to confession and did penance, genuflected at the altar, dipped my fingers into holy water and made the sign of the cross and gave up chocolate at Lent.

I'll light candles and do penance.

Luther continued in the same letter to show how this understanding linked in with the new understanding of the original Greek word of the gospel text, translated wrongly in the Vulgate Latin by Jerome as «Do Penance», but correctly by Erasmus as «change your heart».

Probably by early June, he had agreed that those who became severely ill and had done penance, could be accepted provided they secured certificates from the confessors and martyrs, receive reconciliation from presbyters and deacons, and by midsummer he had accepted the Roman position that all who had done penance could in the face of sickness be reunited.

He's done his penance, though, after Bud Selig made it his mission to suspend him — going so far as illegally obtaining evidence and obstructing a federal investigation to do so — and the Yankees tried ever so hard to keep Rodriguez from money he was contractually obligated to receive after the suspension.

Not Hazel Blears, who must continue to do penance for the spendthrift naughtiness that upset Salford.

Richardson, regarded as a sharp political operator, is now seen as having done penance for the Marshall Islands affair.

Instead, it makes us do penance as we watch a well - to - do Jersey wife and mom spiral out of control as she chugs red wine, snorts drugs and engages in illicit rough sex in between making lunches for her two kids.

There's the dad (an ex-pastor sporting a lot of frown lines), the daughter (Juliette Lewis, doing penance for her sins in Natural Born Killers), and the inexplicable Chinese son.

But unlike some of us unreformed reformers, he's done penance by actually starting and running schools.

I later realized that this was code for «We've done our penance.

Trail boss Dal Frisco has his own past life to do penance for, and he leads the journey across miles of treacherous landscape and into unexplored territory the nuances of the human heart.

It almost looks as if MoMA is doing penance for the noisy abandon of the Isa Genzken retrospective in these sixth - floor galleries over the winter.