Sentence examples for general confession from inspiring English sources

Many Anglicans, however, favour the general confession and absolution of the Communion service.

Most Protestants regard the general confession and absolution of the Communion service as sufficient preparation for the Lord's Supper.

Once a week, they hold a "general confession" and once a month a Communion service, which they refer to not as the Eucharist but as "the Lord's Supper".

Two months after entering the monastery, on Sept. 15, 1505, Luther made his general confession and was admitted into the community as a novice.

After leading a vagabond life in the south of Spain, he was arrested at Ecija, was brought to Toledo, and was tortured with extreme ferocity in order to extort a general confession as to his life during the past months.

The translated title (which uses "Sorrows" instead of "Sufferings") obscures the allusion to the Passion of Christ and individualizes what Goethe himself thought of as a "general confession," in a tradition going back to St . Augustine

General or group confession, introduced by John of Kronshtadt, a Russian spiritual leader of the early 20th century, is also occasionally practiced.

In general Orthodox practice, however, confession is generally viewed as a form of spiritual healing rather than as a tribunal.

General rather than private confession is made by adults.

She stripped half-naked in Cincinnati and lay on the floor with a sign that asked people to write their secrets, confessions and general thoughts on her body.

Currently communities can only be created by the company, and are limited to the general, travel, music, and confessions.