Sentences with phrase «to go to confession»

When I informed him I was not going to confession, he told me he was concerned because he didn't want my soul to go to hell.
I can also be a complete jerk to people and then go to confession every week and all we be forgiven.
I really do believe that going to confession regularly, even if it is difficult and at times embarrassing, is extremely important.
Going to confession for the first time in a long while and trying to bring more joy into the house instead of worrying so much.
These look so sinful I suspect I would have to go to confession after eating them!
He starts the day by going to confession and revealing that he's once again failed to quit smoking at the request of his wife.
But he refuses to go to confession unless he knows he is prepared to end the affair.
* Go to confession annually if not more often or when needed.
Approximately six months after I had first started attending my local Catholic parish, I began going to confession.
Maybe each of them need to go to confession with someone other than each other.
I have been part of services focused on reconciliation where you then went to confession but I wonder if people will be tweeting their sins LOL!
If i were catholic, i would have to go to confession for all of the envy i am feeling.
«And most importantly, Iowa is not Ohio State or Michigan or Penn State, so there's still a championship - caliber Big Ten team you can root for on Saturday without having to go to confession on Sunday.»
I'm a particular fan of Chris going to confession because, if we've had a fight, he quite often comes home with flowers.
She and others like her must repent and go to confession before dying or they will be held accountable by God.
If a couple are sincere in trying to keep to such a decision — even if they fail on occasion and go to confession when they do — then the way is open for them to receive Holy Communion.
Greene began rationalizing the affair, even getting advice from some priests that it was all right to go to confession again and again knowing he would immediately resume the liaison.
Large portions of the Catholic laity, flushed with a sense of unbounded freedom, stopped going to confession and Sunday Mass..
And this recently touted study said «have ever used» sheesh that includes 1 time condom use and the stride has almost nothing to say about whether anyone went to confession and no longer practices it.
One would think that things like going to confession and taking Communion might count, too.
Food shortages are caused by by nations warring over whose god is the biggest, while those who have plenty of food go to confession once again to relieve their guilt.
Notre Dame certainly is Catholic, but I doubt that even 25 per cent of its football team go to confession and take communion.
We realize that some people in the Church have committed this terrible sin but I have never considered leaving the Church because of someone's sin... and I don't think anyone has left because they saw me waiting in line to go to confession either.
Confession is the sacrament in which Christ forgives us our daily sins and that is why Catholics go to confession regularly.
Even among those still going to confession sporadically, an attitude of reservation and selective participation has crept in.
When we repent (and if necessary go to confession) God remits the «eternal punishment» due to sin.
I saw young people in huge numbers going to confession - at the great Festival of Forgiveness in the central park where a city of special white confessionals had been erected, but also at dozens of other places, in meeting - places, on long walks, on the airfield, on coaches or buses, anywhere and everywhere that offered the opportunity.
For just as little as in that silent churchyard the multitude of dead make up a society,» so little does the multitude of those coming to confess make up a society — for not even the king goes to confession alone in order to escape the common company of others.
The soul that will go to confession within 8 days and receive communion and spend some time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament on this day shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment».
This does not mean it is OK to become complacent about confession and think it doesn't matter if I do this, because I can always go to confession and I will be forgiven.
Some older people and priests argue that this is a liberation from their Jansenistic Irish upbringing, when they were that you could never approach Holy Communion without going to confession the day before.
Rose goes to confession after Pinkie's death, but all she really regrets is not having killed herself for him.
True story: When my (Catholic) ex and I were dating, he said something about going to confession & I asked him if he confessed about me.
I refuse to go to confession simply because the Pope has commanded it and insists upon it.
Actually, nvm, I can just go to confession and It'll be all good.
And he had come things to say about pastoral practice which make him sound like the good Catholic parish priest that in some ways he continued to be: «Everyone should prepare in time and get ready for death by going to confession and taking the sacrament once every week or fortnight.
The Popes themselves go to confession weekly.
Of the priests who responded in an Episcopal Conference survey, 54 % went to confession «once a year or less».
If so, she needs to go to confession.
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