So I seek absolution from my wicked thoughts, and I promise to be calm and serene from now on. |
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When, after an absence of eight years, he attempts to heal the rift with his three daughters, each girl demands a different absolution from him. |
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It has been suggested that the only way to face the guilt after a serious error is through confession, restitution, and absolution. |
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Holding a separate service just for confession and absolution before a service of communion is an old practice for Lutherans. |
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Connected to the Taoist tradition, followers honor the dead on this day, when the earth god is said to give absolution for the sins of the dead. |
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This process involves confession to a priest, acts of contrition, receiving absolution, and performing works of satisfaction. |
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I didn't want just absolution, I wanted advice, and I knew I wouldn't get it in my parish in Dehradun. |
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Through our open admission of our sins, the priest's absolution, and the acts of penance, we can know God's healing. |
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In time the French Crusaders received papal absolution for their part in the business at Zara, but the Venetians did not. |
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The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions. |
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And this time supported by deeds that allow the neighbours to give Japan a final absolution. |
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There will be absolution and remission of sins for all who die in the service of Christ. |
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The Friar gives absolution for sins in exchange for money and flirts with the prettiest wives. |
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Jurisdiction and the reservation of absolution of particularly serious sins for pedagogical reasons are defended later. |
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The sun refuses to differentiate among them, grants a kind of absolution from individual frailties. |
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After all, a priest doesn't provide absolution for sins about to be committed. |
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With careful planning and diligent payments, even the worst rating can achieve absolution. |
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We shall have to earn absolution with a complete metanoia over a long period of time. |
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This ritual of confession, absolution and penance inadvertently hides as much as it discloses. |
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But he uses the legal term of judge to describe the role of priest confessor, and that terminology is far from my mind when I give absolution. |
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They favored the use of general absolution and found that the practice of private confession encouraged scrupulosity. |
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But the priest patiently heard my confession, gave me absolution, and then zipped out to continue his busy day. |
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Clearly, the state now both sanctioned murder and offered absolution from guilt for the perpetrators. |
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We must accompany our people from a place of guilt to absolution, fear to repentance, shame to sacrifice. |
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This predisposes us to believe the worst of ourselves and others, and to seek, not a resolution to problems, but an absolution from sin. |
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I can identify with the possible need for confession, restitution, and absolution, or at least resolution. |
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This achievement was enough to win him absolution even from his most doctrinal foes. |
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The penitent who regularly confesses with the same priest frequently seeks something besides absolution alone. |
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The priest would hear confessions and give absolution for sins. |
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My agent suggested I try to have a completed draft of a second novel before absolution was published. |
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Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition. |
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Their candidacies offer a degree of absolution for this uncomfortable fact. |
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Priestly absolution would follow only on inquiring whether such a confession was properly understood and made, and ascertaining the penitent's sorrow. |
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Like Gingrich, he is a convert and a thrice-married sinner engaged continually in confession and absolution. |
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In any event, if the conditions I mention about your living continently are met then you should be able to receive absolution and then the Eucharist. |
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I always feel that when people ask this question or try to seek justification for having an affair, they are, at some level, seeking absolution from others. |
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The encounter is portrayed so consumably as to permit the viewer's or reader's self absolution from any collusion or complicity in the evils portrayed. |
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This has given them an absolution from political responsibility and toil. |
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Sam was asking for forgiveness and wanted absolution from Ian. |
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What might a priest's absolution mean in such circumstances? |
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Revising the second novel, Fallen Land, after the reviews were out for absolution made it a much less overwhelming process. |
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Asked to retract what had been said, it was instead repeated the following Sunday, along with the threat of refusing absolution. |
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Regarding absolution for the sin of abortion, the obligation always exists to have regard for the canonical norms. |
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Many religions link ablution to absolution. Such associations seem to have penetrated deep into the Western imagination. |
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That same day, Fr Pablo gave him the Sacrament of the Sick, absolution and a plenary indulgence granted by the Church at the moment of death. |
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We cannot give it absolution purely and simply because it is a strategic partner, for example on energy issues. |
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Alone he knelt in the presence of his God till the absolution has been spoken, and the sacred elements received. |
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These citizens of Nepal continue to work in an environment of servitude and bonded labor, 70 years after the absolution of slavery and ten years after the restoration of democracy in Nepal. |
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Confessors give absolution to Mafiosi who have killed people. |
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Symeon believed that direct experience gave monks the authority to preach and give absolution of sins, without the need for formal ordination as practiced by his own teacher, Symeon the Studite. |
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He demanded from his clergy not to give absolution to those who refused to give back what had been stolen, in accordance with the traditional theology of the sacrament of penance. |
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And God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priests, and either not to pardon or to pardon, according as they refuse or give absolution, provided the penitent is capable of it. |
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I took the liberty of saying to her: 'Your work still lacks one thing: Our Lord must give to the general abbesses the power to say mass and to give absolution. |
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You are the reason for the friction in the parish right now. You should be at the firing line along with us when we go to fight in order to give absolution. |
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Sacramental absolution is not to be denied to those who, repentant after having gravely sinned against conjugal chastity, demonstrate the desire to strive to abstain from sinning again, notwithstanding relapses. |
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It is on the basis of these principles that the priest is deputed, in dialogue with the penitent, to discern whether he or she is ready for sacramental absolution. |
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Even the mother superior offered absolution. |
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In the second, when the monastic form of penance was extended to the laity, greater importance was placed on the penitential action and the reception of individual absolution. |
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American kindliness was the key, not government bossiness or new laws. Reagan offered taxpayers outraged by the Great Society and the growth of the welfare state a potent mix of indignation and absolution. |
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I have denied the charges and am confident of absolution. |
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The absolution of the priest, which is also given in the name of the Church, reveals its full meaning when perceived as being an ecclesial act, that is, an action performed by and on behalf of Christ and the Church. |
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Las Casas himself was refused absolution at a later time when he went to confession to one of the friars since at that time he was also an encomendero, even though kind to the Indians in his service. |
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It is a place to seek absolution, a place to wipe out memory. |
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The absolution may be said in Latin or in the vernacular. |
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He was obliged to be in bed, and he was ordered to remain there, but the time had come for the confession of sin and the receiving of absolution. |
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What drew you to South Africa as the setting for absolution? |
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Particular initiatives include evangelization, general absolution, and the use of the 1974 Sacramentary. |
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Geoffrey also makes the defence of the city from the Saxon sneak attack a holy cause, having Dubricius offer absolution of all sins for those who fall in battle. |
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Since Absolution is a return to the forgiveness given in baptism, strictly speaking there are only two sacraments. |
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