Sentences with phrase «who heard the confession»

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

One who hears confessions may regard them as routine.

For his part Father Tommasso, who hears confessions and metes out predictable punishments (say 10 Hail Marys, etc.), is himself involved with Sister Marea (Molly Shannon), the Mother Superior.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

Matthew begins this chapter with a startling and sad confession: «I am far from the only gay Christian who has heard the claim that gay people will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But as every sensitive person ought to know and as every councilor (and every priest who has «heard confessions») does know, man's root problem is not in these particular acts.

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

He or she must be someone who, hearing the full confession of our weakness and accepting it, is likely to become the vehicle for our hearing Christ say, «Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.»

Any minister who, like the writer, has heard many «confessions» of sin, made formally or informally by parishioners and friends, will be able to testify to the danger just noted.

Then the text moved on to a formidable list of reformanda: inadequate procedures for selection and training of priests, pastoral responsibilities allotted to those living elsewhere (Campeggio as Bishop of Salisbury would be an example — but Rome was full of such men who used a part of their salary to pay a vicar to look after their diocese while they did other more congenial work in Rome); the bequeathing of benefices in wills especially to the children of priests, pluralism, failure to correct those who make money by hearing confessions.

It is refreshing to «hear your confession», and to know that there is a worldwide growing community of believers who are just as passionate and hungry for rightness as they ever were, but not as dogmatic or ungracious as we now realize we were in our teens, twenties, thirties, forties & even fifties.

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».

I've heard it in the late - night confessions of friends, who lean in close to whisper the ultimate taboo: «If I could do it over, I wouldn't have them.»

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.

Madge's message harkens back to Tina Fey's New Yorker piece «Confessions of a Juggler,» in which she wrote: «I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of «crazy» in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.»

Personal Confessions, a new line on the market, is just as it sounds, a line to call to divulge your deepest secrets with singles in your area who are ready to hear whatever it is you have to say.

Writer - director Ben Lewin brings on William H. Macy as a local priest who hears O'Brien's explicit confession, but it's a useless framing device, ostensibly affirming O'Brien's religious conviction but really there to earn titters from the audience over his naughty escapades.

Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears a killer's confession, but because the sacrament of penance forbids him to speak, he remains silent.

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.

One might not expect to hear such a confession from a figure like David Gregory, the NBC newsman who moderated «Meet the Press» and served as the White House correspondent during the second Bush administration.

These benefits can go to accomplices, reluctant witnesses, or the most insidious type of witness — jailhouse informants like Carter who claim to hear confessions and whose testimony usually can not be verified.