Sentences with phrase «word of absolution»

This would appear to have been compiled by the author of the current words of absolution in the sacrament of Penance (with all its subordinate clauses); and does not provide any means of drawing breath.

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In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

The words of consecration and of absolution I pronounce will, through no merits of my own, cleanse souls and nourish wayfarers with the Bread of Life.

But its power of coercion does not extend to the affairs of eternal life and it therefore must maintain and respect the right of the church, under the Word of God, to regulate preaching, the administration of the sacraments, absolution, excommunication, and the ordering of divine services.