Sentences with phrase «with penitent»

When a psycho with a penitent for folk tales starts to lay waste to the student body of Pendleton College, a pair of students gets drawn into the mystery.

But it is otherwise with a penitent.

For I would come to you with a penitent and contrite heart, if I were guilty of sin, which I am not saying I am, and I am not saying that I am not.

Most folk are in one of these two classes: barbarians with penitent and wistful interludes, or good men with unconquered mutinies.

Prayer for the Day: «O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.

Not exact matches

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

The Sacrament of Penance is there for the forgiveness of sin, and is no mere ritual — it involves the penitent confessing specific sins with the intention of no longer continuing in them, receiving God's grace for this commitment.

In «The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light,» the morning sunlight clears up a long - forgotten murder, and the culprit is convicted, while «The Virgin Mary's Child» concludes with heavenly redemption, when «heaven opened up right then and there, and the Virgin Mary descended with the [penitent sinner's] two little sons at either side and the daughter in her arms» in order to save her from flames at the stake.

She comes very early to be identified as a converted prostitute with long, flowing and usually red hair, who just before his last trip to Jerusalem anoints Jesus» head (or feet) with an expensive ointment and to the end of her long life remains a somewhat disturbed penitent.

The lay people are associated with the church as catechumens or penitents or companions.

It was this stream of thought that came to expression in the Passion narrative where Luke recorded Jesus as saying to the penitent thief; «today you shall be with me in Paradise».5 We must be careful to do justice to the fluid nature of the forms in which the resurrection hope was expressed, and to recognize that they were alternatives which could not be easily reconciled with each other.

Only the individual can truthfully will the Good, and even though the penitent toils heavily not merely in the eleventh hour of confession, with all the questions standing as accusations of himself, but also in their daily use in repentance, yet the way is the right one.

(It is) for every penitent and heedful one, (32) Who feareth the Beneficent in secret and cometh with a contrite heart.

Men who were familiar with the idea that God was merciful and would receive the penitent, realized that in Jesus God was being merciful and was receiving the penitent.

The answer must undoubtedly be that Jesus himself had brought home to the hearts of those who really heard his words that God stood ready to receive not simply the righteous — there was none righteous — but the penitent, those who acknowledged the absolute righteousness of God, felt the awful force of its demands upon them, realized how far short they fell of it, and with humble and contrite hearts sought his forgiveness and help.

The truly penitent not only has a change of mind and a confession of the mouth, but also proceeds with some visible, demonstrative acts of restorative reparation, or deeds of penance.

With sensitivity the priest endeavours to bring the penitent to see the true consequences of their action, which includes the wounding of their relationship with God, the Church and the wider human communWith sensitivity the priest endeavours to bring the penitent to see the true consequences of their action, which includes the wounding of their relationship with God, the Church and the wider human communwith God, the Church and the wider human community.

They come to expect few or no penitents, so they go and get on with other things after a while.

Most medicines need to be given in repeated doses before healing is achieved; dressings on wounds need to be changed frequently to prevent infection taking hold; and so it is with the life of the penitent spirit.

Mary the sinless Mother of God was, of course, lovely beyond all dreaming, but I was more drawn to the women among whom Christ lived who had shadings of flaws and ordinariness, of quintessentially female weakness: Martha testy in her kitchen, Mary Magdalene the penitent with her foolishly expensive perfume, her hair long enough to dry the feet of Christ, her tears for her many sins.

«No, because my own experience... was that regular penitents came back with exactly the same words week after week.

Thus, in baptism there would be no sacrament were the penitent to rest content merely with the purification by water.

For example, in the sacrament of baptism there is apparently a special virtue or power in the symbolic washing of a penitent with water.

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

If God hears the prayer of the penitent for forgiveness, we can trustfully leave with him not only our sins but our shortcomings.

The phrase «are in love and charity with your neighbors» means that the truly penitent person has already taken the first step toward reintegrating him or herself into the human community whose fabric has been torn by the betrayal of trust a transgression implies.

What does forgiveness have to do with being sorry, remorseful or penitent?

To give one example, we may on occasion proclaim the Word of God with the specific purpose of securing that Christ's people shall be more faithful, penitent, and regular in their use of the sacramental opportunities which Christ provides in his Church for their growth in grace.

I would weigh in quietly with local authorities, who did not mind if this was done respectfully in a friendly (even better, penitent) spirit.

And though their languishing trip over rail, bus lines and cobbled streets is imbued with gorgeous cinematography courtesy of the Greek coast and Marcel Zyskind «s penitent eye, the affair quickly bores.

Watching Croft walk down a dark hallway with traps set everywhere, I couldn't help but whisper «Only the Penitent Man Will Pass.»

And her own sins and secrets impel her to consort with one — and only one — penitent soul whose accusing conscience has brought him here: a damaged man, no longer a soldier, who once joined two comrades to defile a teenage girl in the Louisiana wood.

As for the Penitent Children of the 16th Arrondissement, they were so involved with this charity that, twice a year, Madame Péricand organised classical music concerts for the unfortunate children; she would play the harp and was gratified to notice that, at certain passages, sobbing could be heard in the darkened concert hall.

Hop aboard the metro at relatively close by El Coll or Penitents metro stations to explore the entirety of the city with ease.

With baroque influences, Manuel Leon's paintings represent penitents with covered faces, ingrained into popular culture, especially during Holy WWith baroque influences, Manuel Leon's paintings represent penitents with covered faces, ingrained into popular culture, especially during Holy Wwith covered faces, ingrained into popular culture, especially during Holy Week.

Unlike the priest - penitent example, and quite apart from any distinction drawn on formal differences between the confessional and merely confiding in a religious adviser, the appellants did not communicate with Leon to fulfill a religious purpose or spiritual need.