Sentences with phrase «to hear one's confession»

But the responsibility of the pastor or priest who hears a confession varies among denominations.

They stayed up all night nursing his wounds, encouraging him, praying with him, and eventually hearing his confession.

The priest will hear confession then let the criminal back out to do whatever it was he was doing previously.

But if the father sat through the trial of his son, and saw the weight of the evidence, and maybe even heard the confession of his son to his crimes, the father would be forced to believe what he did not want to believe.

The movie begins with Lavelle hearing a confession from an unseen man who says that for seven years, beginning at age five, he was raped by a priest, now dead, and that he'll take revenge by killing a «good priest» — Lavelle — in a week's time.

Terry Dunn heard confessions in the yard of the rectory, in the shade of old pines and silver eucalyptus trees.

Most still have at least nominal times for hearing confessions sometime on a Saturday, but the greater emphasis is on Penance Services twice a year at Christmas and Easter.

Mass each day, some 20 priests hearing confessions during a Reconciliation Service with Adoration and Benediction.

During the 2010 Year for Priests, the Holy Father several times called on priests to make themselves available to hear confessions as generously as possible.

Around the field, priests hear confessions - with long lines pf penitents — and in smaller tents talks and workshops are offered on a range of topics: the Holy Spirit, evangelisation, discovering the lives of the saints, contemplative prayer.

Think of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes seeking enlightenment in an opium trance; of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey meditating on a folio of Dante; or Agatha Christie's quiet Miss Marple hearing confessions at the tea table.

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.

(He spent endless hours hearing confessions, and hated it.)

I'm sorry that I think that you will hear these confessions above every other prayer that is being uttered right now.

And when these brothers and sisters had been bound, the husband of one of them who had heard their confession approached them and said to them, «Do not be afraid, for it will be a good thing for you to die for such a cause».

An upstanding priest finds his life in mortal danger after hearing the confession of a dying friend in director John Sjogren's grim crime drama.

While hearing confession, Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) learns that a member of his church was abused by another priest from the time he was 7 years old.

While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary, who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts; hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.

If so, then the priest who heard the confession can not, and I repeat, can not tell another person.

Then (I feel) GOD will hear our confession of sin and heal our land.

Morality was mainly a matter of learning the list of duties and prohibitions necessary for hearing confessions.

During a temporary imprisonment he ministered to the criminals, spending a night counselling a murderer and eventually hearing his confession.

The source who disclosed to us what transpired on that faithful monday, also asked us to come to the church on Sunday (25th September) to hear his confession as he would be made to tell the story of how he got his money from the underworld.

We don't need a priest to hear our confessions and we don't have to swollow as «gospel» all the hatred that is spewed from pulpits anymore.

A pastor is too busy leading people in worship to attend workshops on how to lead people in worship, and his duties in the confessional prevent him from attending seminars on how to hear confessions.

Early in the narrative, after he has sought out a trusted priest to hear his confession, despite the risk entailed in the journey, Brossard thinks of absolution, a stay against his fear and guilt:

When Erik confessed his faith on the festival of Pentecost, the entire family of believers watched and strained to hear his confession.

Although, one time, one Saturday afternoon, he did scold me for having heard confessions that afternoon, that same day.

The issue that evening was not that I'd been hearing confessions, but that he'd found himself in my confessional line.

He has followed up this dialogue with concrete steps on his own initiative, such as giving Society priests faculties to hear confessions and witness marriage, despite their unusual canonical status.

He stayed a day and a night, hearing confessions, speaking with the men.

One of the key sacraments is Holy Orders since only the priest says Mass, hears confessions, confirms, ordains and annoints.

«The hands that held the camera to photograph my exposed body, in the light of day were holding a prayer book when he came to hear my confession.»

«In hearing confessions the priest is to remember that he is at once both judge and healer, and that he is constituted by God as a minister of both divine justice and divine mercy, so that he may contribute to the honour of God and the salvation of souls» (c. 978, s. 1).

I quickly realized that an anemic understanding of sin leads to anemic confessions, robbing them of the power to transform the confessor and those hearing the confession.

Sadly the pernicious misinformation that hearing confessions is forbidden during the Triduum still persists in the minds of many Parish Priests.

Blessed John Paul II made a point of hearing confessions himself in St. Peter's on Good Friday.

The woman believes she is dying and asks him to hear her confession and give absolution.

Only those who confess should hear confessions, thus keeping confession from becoming mere form or routine.

One who hears confessions may regard them as routine.