This meaning is exemplified by the repentant person who not only has profound regret for his past but also the fulfilled hope in the potential of God ’ s grace to continually bear the fruit of healing and true reconciliation in himself, with others, and most especially with God.

Should this person then approach a priest in confession, repentant, and explain his act and the fact that he acted in secret, the confessor would write to the tribunal laying out the simplest outline of facts, keeping the person's identity secret, and would most likely be empowered to lift the excommunication and impose some private act of penance on the person.

They are very rarely applied in practice, because they require a high standard of proof and if the person is repentant or if there is any reasonable doubt, it may not be carried out.

Afterwards, she joined the community as a repentant baalat tshuva, " one who has returned ," until a person from her past approached her and she let him into the Diamond Center to kill Yaakov and steal diamonds worth about $ 750, 000.

Reportedly, he justified his refusal by saying, " I may welcome a repentant sinner into my church, but I wouldn't want him to lead the church choir.

If the monk breaks any rule here he has to undergo a period of probation or discipline after which, if he shows himself to be repentant, he may be reinstated by a sangha of not less than twenty monks.

The priest dismisses the repentant one in peace.

Inquisitors required heretical sympathisers – repentant first offenders – to sew a yellow cross onto their clothes.

Laurette is not repentant: She coldbloodedly admits that she considers their marriage to be purely a business affair.

) It is a sin to taunt a repentant sinner by recalling their former sinful ways.

In their view, baptism was reserved for repentant believers who were aware that their sins had been forgiven, not unknowing infants.

Ten years later, Atrus asks for the Stranger's help in determining if his sons have repented after their lengthy imprisonment ; the Stranger saves Yeesha from Sirrus ' machinations, but Sirrus and a repentant Achenar are killed.

Liberal Catholic Church International states: We teach that Christ has given to the Priests of His Church the power to absolve the repentant faithful from their sins.

Now free of M ' Nagalah's control, a seemingly repentant Dr. Zeul retains her position at Ivy University and has approached Ryan for a second chance, despite the bizarre circumstances of their first meeting.

The repentant Nephites were " confounded, ... their sins and were baptized unto repentance, and immediately returned to the Nephites to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.

When the bishop realized the king was truly repentant, he raised him up, lifted the excommunication and led him into the cathedral.

This theological analysis stresses sharp contrasts between the two leaders on four basic principles: on procedures leading to excommunication, on the severity of sanctions on the excommunicant, on the restoration of a repentant individual, and on civil punishment.

Matured and repentant through his experiences Himmelstoß later asks for forgiveness from his previous charges.

In his youth, Munny was a bandit who was notorious for being a vicious, cold-blooded murderer, but he is now a repentant widower raising two children and has sworn off alcohol.

To the others, he came across as a breast-beating, repentant sinner, hounded by the state and asking for compassion.

Educated for the Protestant ministry at Blaubeuren, Bebenhausen and Tübingen, he became repentant at Tübingen in 1774, preacher at Stuttgart in 1780, and professor of theology at Göttingen in 1784.

Alan Eagleson was not repentant for his actions during game eight.

The auto de fe was an edifying spectacle of public humiliation of the repentant before they were sent off to the civil authorities, for execution.

The Husband is finally repentant and contrite over his actions ... too late for any restoration.

* Sodomy ( lavat ): Rape, death penalty for rapist ; Consensual ; 100 lashes for active partner, death penalty for passive partner unless repentant ( prior to 2012, it was death penalty for both ).

MIKE has been the only one shown to feel repentant for his actions.

The protagonist is clearly at least a bit repentant of what he has done, expressing regret to the statues and praying to doña Inés for forgiveness.

' She most humbly beseecheth his Highness of mercy and forgiveness, as One that is repentant for that she hath so offended and purposeth never hereafter to fall in to semblable danger, – signed Anne Husee, countersigned Edmund Walsyngham.

Wes is reunited with the rest of the team and the repentant Nadira and Ransik and is angry with Jen who has been in the past for awhile and never contacted him.

In a 2004 piece in New York magazine, Weinstein appeared somewhat repentant for his often aggressive discussions with directors and producers.

May the Almighty and merciful Lord grant you indulgence, absolution, and remission of all your sins, time for a true and fruitful penance, an always repentant heart and amendment of life, the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit, and final perseverance in good works.

On August 29, 1294 Pietro da Morrone was crowned Pope there, as Celestine V, and as part of his coronation instituted a plenary pardon of sins for all who would visit the church, confessed and repentant, on the 28th and 29th of August of any year.

Mel and a seemingly repentant, broken Valeyard suffer the penalty for breaking the Time Lords ' first law, and become trapped in the TARDIS, perhaps forever enmeshed in the centre of the web of time.

He won the Crystal Reel Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Nathan Bedford in the episode '" Sweet, Sweet Blues ", directed by Vincent McEveety and written by William James Royce, Best plays a repentant killer who has to come to terms with his crime.

in the United States the initiation of militant anti-Communism, with the repentant ex-Communist in the vanguard.

The pope was suspicious of the king ’ s motives, and did not believe he was truly repentant.

Isaac has a tour of heaven and hell shortly before his death in which God's compassion to repentant sinners is emphasized.

Under the normal process of the law, he should have been absolved as a repentant.

They reportedly have revised the Roman Missal and the Roman Calendar, and now neither of those documents mention Mary Magdalene as a repentant sinner of ill repute.

Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant.

Sainthood in the Orthodox Church does not necessarily reflect a moral model, but the communion with God: there are countless examples of people who lived in great sin and became saints by humility and repentance, such as Mary of Egypt, Moses the Ethiopian, and of course Dysmas, the repentant thief who was crucified.

We believe in God the Father, who is sovereign over all, and is loving and just as He forgives the repentant and condemns the unrepentant.

Oil on panel. A Lutheran understanding of the Eucharist is distinct from the Reformed doctrine of the Eucharist in that Lutherans affirm a real, physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist ( as opposed to either a " spiritual presence " or a " memorial ") and Lutherans affirm that the presence of Christ does not depend on the faith of the recipient ; the repentant receive Christ in the Eucharist worthily, the unrepentant who receive the Eucharist risk the wrath of Christ.

A repentant opportunist saw the light and rebelled against the sadism and vile criminality all around him.

He became a conventor ( repentant ) in the contubernium and instructed younger scholars.

Out of this encounter, Valjean becomes a repentant, honorable, dignified man.

Thrown together with a repentant Coker, he drives to the place, a country estate named Tynsham in Wiltshire, but neither Beadley nor Josella are there ; Durrant has taken charge and organised the community along " Christian " lines.

When Tertullian, a Montanist, furiously applied the term to some bishop with whom he was at odds ( either Pope Callixtus I or Agrippinus of Carthage ), c. 220, over a relaxation of the Church's penitential discipline allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the Church, it was in bitter irony:

Hermione, meanwhile, falls in a swoon, and is carried away by Paulina, who subsequently reports the queen's death to her heartbroken and repentant husband.

Ones considered " truly repentant " are reproved rather than disfellowshipped.

One view in the Talmud holds that a repentant sinner attains a more exalted spiritual eminence than one who has never sinned ( Talmud Berakhoth 34b.