Search results for "Contrition" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The penitent must make an act of contrition, a prayer acknowledging ... be based on the sincerity of one's contrition nor on one's doing ...
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  • sins to a priest and prays an act of contrition. The priest then assigns ... eliminated the practice of acts of contrition, they retained the rites ...
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  • which she characterized as "the wound of contrition, the wound of compassion, and the wound of longing with my will for God." ...
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  • man is not freed from guilt by another's contrition." [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q13_A2.html Whether one man can fulfill ...
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  • working life; some speculate he was feeling contrition over his former wild living, while others suggest he sought to become rich and independent to ...
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  • spiritus sanctus; three degrees of penitence, contrition, confession and satisfaction…." W.T. Sedgwick, H. W. Tyler, and Robert Payne Bigelow ...
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  • a monetary donation accompanied by contrition, confession, and prayer eventually gave way to the common understanding that indulgences depended ...
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  • as President in 1974, expressed contrition saying "I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of ...
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  • through confession or perfect contrition, mortal sins result in eternal punishment in Hell. Venial sins, by contrast, are sins that do not meet ...
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  • to atonement, for it tends to precipitate contrition in the one who fasts (see Joel, 2:12-18). This is why the Bible requires fasting (lit. self ...
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  • are seen as foundational to the Christian life: contrition, joy, gratitude, hope, peace, and compassion. Robert C. Roberts, Spiritual Emotions: ...
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  • to pray, with all fervency and contrition, for the pardon of their past offenses, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action. ...
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  • by Christ. He thought penance—contrition, confession, absolution—had value as a relief to distressed consciences. However, he attacked monastic ...
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