El Greco, The Repentant Peter (c. 1600). (WikiPaintings.org) Wowzers, you get two posts by me in just two days! I couldn’t help myself. I wrote this piece in response to another post, and come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever posted this argument here before. The...
Peter and the others refusing to enter the house of Levi the tax collector when Jesus had dinner with him and his friends. Levi was an excommunicated Jew who collaborated with the pagan Romans. A Jew who entered his house would become ritually unclean. Yet Jesus entered his house and dined...
Everybody is good to Camilla, because she is artless and unsophisticated, from the burly piano movers, who come to seize her old rattle trap instrument, and the bibulous old waiter who smuggles food to her, up to the repentant, but careless, millionaire motorist....
Thedesireorintention for Baptismcan also bring the fruits of Baptism without actually receiving the Sacrament, if one meets death before one can. Catechumens especially who die before their Baptism, repentant for their sins and fully intending to receive the Sacrament, can be assured of their salv...
Everybody is good to Camilla, because she is artless and unsophisticated, from the burly piano movers, who come to seize her old rattle trap instrument, and the bibulous old waiter who smuggles food to her, up to the repentant, but careless, millionaire motorist....
before we sin — but we are notforgivenuntil we present ourselves repentant. There is certainly a limitless flow of the mercy and grace Christ bought for us, to forgive our every sin for all time; but rather than Christ paying a penalty that we will now never have to pay, He bought ou...
before we sin — but we are notforgivenuntil we present ourselves repentant. There is certainly a limitless flow of the mercy and grace Christ bought for us, to forgive our every sin for all time; but rather than Christ paying a penalty that we will now never have to pay, He bought ou...
Since Musa was a repentant lay woman, she was a poster child (literally) for a penitential program. Her story could bolster clerical authority and encourage the laity to attend confession. After the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 (canon 21), confession had become mandatory for all Christians (...