Sentence examples for communal confession from inspiring English sources
A communal confession is performed by the laity, and letters are sent asking for forgiveness and the removal of all ill feelings about conscious or unconscious misdeeds during the past year.
In "The Music School," for example, the flow is from the material consistency of the eucharistic wafer to the murder of a computer expert; from a daughter's piano lessons to an intimation of adultery; from the plot of an abandoned novel to a visit to a psychiatrist, and finally to a communal confession at a worship service.
Theologians, psychologists and sociologists agree about the benefits -- spiritual, emotional and communal -- of confession.
The Shaker way of life required confession, celibacy, communal living and withdrawal from the world.
Confession and the singing of hymns were also important in their communal life.
The secular nature of the state dampens communal tensions, an important consideration in a country that, like Iraq, is a cocktail of confessions and ethnicities: 60% Sunni Arab, 18% Shia and other Muslim sects, 10% Kurdish and 12% Christian.
