How To Use Confessor In A Sentence

-- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.' Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London

Not only do you have to be a teacher, you must be a parent figure, confessor, psychologist, counselor, public relations expert, and a role model for the community.
She was hoping that her being there; like a confessor or guardian angel, someone who was not judging and not changing, would help them in someway.
He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
Catherine asked just a year afterward to be received into a local Augustinian convent, and her confessor supported the petition. RIDDLE ME THIS
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
On the whole, then, I see nothing very strange either in orthodoxy lying in what at first sight appears like subtle and minute exactness of doctrine, or in its being our duty to contend even to confessorship for such exactness. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Specifically, it examines their role as counselors and confessors to married and unmarried women who sought to unburden their hearts and describe in detail the contours of their emotional and erotic lives.
The last publicized stigmatic was Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk in Italy who gained world recognition as a faith healer and confessor. TOUCH
However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
We meet everywhere so much kindness now, that we can make no pretence to confessorship. ' Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
Originally used to designate the burial-place of a confessor or martyr (known also as a memoria or martyrion), this term gradually came to have a variety of applications: the altar erected over the grave; the underground cubiculum which contained the tomb; the high altar of the basilica erected over the confession; later on in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence.
And it is to turn the form of confession into one in which the penitent interrogates the confessor.
But still a shadow and resemblance of it was retained; and in the papal church itself to this day, particular confessors are esteemed competent judges of the meetness of their penitents for an admission unto the sacraments of their church. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
With the canonisation of the Confessor in 1161, his regalia gained the status of holy relics, further increasing the veneration with which they were regarded.
How do we understand, not what is said between the confessor and confessant, but the dynamic that is produced between them?
Judges rarely render even highly suspicious confessions inadmissible, and juries often convict confessors, even in the absence of physical evidence.
Since not every priest is a good confessor, one of the book's most interesting chapters deals with finding the right guide.
Two or three of these dungeons, for they are nothing better, still remain; and a brief description of the one which we have mentioned will give our readers some idea of what confessorship cost, independent of martyrdom. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
The last publicized stigmatic was Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk in Italy who gained world recognition as a faith healer and confessor. TOUCH
They are diarists, confessors, intimate chroniclers of their slightly repugnant lives.
If I know us Lutherans, however, we'll be so busy testing the qualities of magnets and garlic and watching how our fellow confessors do so that we will attract anyone wearing steel and repel him by our smell.
In this case he is surely right, but I am left wondering whether the factors in relationships between confessant and confessor that he so skillfully unpacks are felt equally in all types of those relationships.
The Sacrament of reconciliation will be available in both Nurney and Kildangan churches on Sunday next Palm Sunday from 3-5 pm when visiting confessors will be present.
He has a life coach, the trendy, increasingly ubiquitous equivalent of a therapist confessor, who tries to guide him.
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
They neither wish to shock people, nor to earn for themselves a confessorship which brings with it no gain. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
He spent his last hours wit '. his confessor, wrote to his wife and children, praying his family not to beweep him, not to forget him, and never to offend against their God; and this missive, with a lock of his hair for his beloved daughter, he finally entrusted to the ghostly father. Arabian nights. English
St Maximus the Confessor also wrote three hymns in the finest traditions of church hymnography, following the example of St Gregory the Theologian. Orrologion
“A cast of their office, and a cast of mine,” answered the bailie; “a cord and a confessor, that is all thou wilt have from us.” The Monastery
It was a foolish sheep that made the wolf his confessor.
The ‘caso’ of whether to inform the king when a family member has committed a crime is one that the Spanish casuists addressed specifically in the confessors' manuals.
The mendicants enjoyed rapid and phenomenal success, attracting support not only from the crown and aristocracy, who frequently employed them as confessors and advisers, but also from urban patrons.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
None of these witnesses have specified the number of the confessors, which is fixed at sixty in an old menology, (apud Ruinart.p. 486.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Confession in the classroom takes many forms; therefore, the identities of the confessor and confessee are not always the same.
It says that spiritual directors and confessors in seminaries "have the duty to dissuade" any candidates "who show deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from joining the priesthood. 11/23/2005
Also patron of confessors, professors, and theologians.
‘And nothing good will come from covering it up,’ the president leaned forward and looked his confessor in the eye.
He had never been good at talking of his emotions, conceding psychological advantage to his confessor.
Constitution to fetter the hands of conscientious loyalty in grappling with them, is a political creed which argues ill for the patriotism of its confessors; but it embodies the exact logic of those who look upon The Assassinated President
And with each persecution came newly baptized confessors.
This is indeed the duty of the priest's confessor or spiritual director, the representative of the tribunal of mercy.
Ultimately, as a social phenomenon, it was about the relationship between a confessor and his penitents.
Fiction might best be conceived in this scenario as a byproduct of our drive to sustain the link that gives us confidence in confession's non-fictionality, or rather, as a curious outgrowth of the discursive relationship between confessant and confessor.
Once signed, the written confession can condemn the confessor even after the confession has been retracted.
John was her sometime confessor and perhaps the only person, male or female, before whom Teresa stood in awe.
Scotland. 28 He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy. Waverley
The Marchesa was attentive, and the Confessor added, “She is not immortal; and the few years more, that might have been allotted her, she deserves to forfeit, since she would have employed them in cankering the honour of an illustrious house.” The Italian
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
In this particular collection he tells the story of a young boy who moves to Astro City from out in the sticks, and ends up becoming a sidekick to a superhero, The Confessor.
I think I can face up to my confessor with a clear mind that I have done good deeds in this world.
The last publicized stigmatic was Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk in Italy who gained world recognition as a faith healer and confessor. TOUCH
The confessor is the worm which is biting, polluting, and destroying the very roots of civil and religious society, by contaminating, debasing, and enslaving woman. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
It contains sections describing the bishop, presbyters, deacons, confessors, widows, lectors, virgins, subdeacons, healers, neophyte Christians, and artisans and craftsmen.
I can recall talk among my workmates about confession and confessors at a time when most of us were courting.
The eraser is our confessor, our absolver and our time machine. '' The Power Of Big Ideas
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
In a revealing moment, Marlantes recounts a meeting with the mythologist Joseph Campbell, who assumes the role of father confessor: "Did you intend right?
Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut beati David, Confessoris tui atque Pontificis, pia intercessio nos protegat, et dum eius solemnia celebramus, in catholica tuenda fide firmitatem imitemur. She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians!
Ultimately, as a social phenomenon, it was about the relationship between a confessor and his penitents.
Confessor: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution but does not suffer martyrdom.
Deus, qui in Ecclesia tua nova semper instauras exempla virtutum: da populo tuo beati Andreæ Confessoris tui atque Pontificis ita sequi vestigia; ut assequatur et præmia. Leap Year -- Day
In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes.
Believe that and you'll believe the Ayatollah's Mother Teresa's confessor. BLACK EAGLES
Once inside the box, face to face with my confessor I took off my dark glasses and said ‘Father, it's over twenty years since my last confession.’
Surely, you didn't tell anyone, and apart from his confessor, your father certainly didn't. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
The confessor is the master, the ruler, the king of the soul; the husband, as the grave-yard keeper, must be satisfied with the carcase! The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
Indeed, what can she have been up to with that abbé who was her confessor and who, by her own admission, launched her into incubacy? Là-bas
He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his meal-ark, and with two barrels, one of single, and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy. The Waverley
He had listened in his role of father confessor, increasingly concerned as he sensed her pain and unhappiness. RIOT
Interestingly enough, because of the abusive confessions I had been to, I called the chancery and asked if there was a good retired priest confessor living in the area. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
The first known royal palace to occupy Parliament's site was Edward the Confessor's (c1065).
Now I make bold to say, that confessorship for the Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
Moreover, he performed the offices of his holy ministry, and was commonly called the confessor of foreigners. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
It is known as a Rhenish helm – a style imported from the Rhineland in the time of Edward the Confessor, and this is the only surviving British example. Early medieval architecture in Britain: examples from the era
In another one of Random Acts's monologues, a petite, elfin woman in a peach sweater squares herself off at the confessor's table, and begins to talk with a slight southern lilt.
His confessors told him that he would die in a state of sin because of his treatment of his ex-Queen, who was now living in Constantinople.
Someone explain to me by what series of events persons with serious sexual-psychological malfunctions would somehow be awarded the status of moral arbiters, something like priests and confessors and sages -- except that the passkey to being a guardian of public conscience in our age is the absence of moral value, not the presence. Archive 2009-08-01
He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy. Waverley
The same are also called the congregation of bulls (from their rage against the Church) who assemble together all their kine, that is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can, from Christ and his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like silver tried by fire. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
He examines the way in which the transferential bond that evolves out of the dependency between confessor and confessant is often used to manipulate the accused into confessing to scenarios that conform to the interrogators' preconceptions.
If one of them confesses and the other does not, the confessor gets a reward and his partner gets a heavy sentence.
Chiefly, though, they talked with the Head, who was father-confessor and agent-general to them all; for what they shouted in their unthinking youth, they proved in their thoughtless manhood -- to wit, that the Stalky & Co.
How do we understand, not what is said between the confessor and confessant, but the dynamic that is produced between them?
Deus, qui in Ecclesia tua nova semper instauras exempla virtutum: da populo tuo beati Andreæ Confessoris tui atque Pontificis ita sequi vestigia; ut assequatur et præmia. Leap Year -- Day
But vernacular confessors' manuals were published almost as often as these weightier Latin tomes.
The second privilege is in the octaves or utas; for he only with S. Stephen have their octaves among all other martyrs, like as S. Martin hath among the confessors. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
The mendicants enjoyed rapid and phenomenal success, attracting support not only from the crown and aristocracy, who frequently employed them as confessors and advisers, but also from urban patrons.
But how could she tell her minister, a confessor whom she would have to confront face to face? DANSVILLE
For Alfred is generally stiled by the same historians the legum Anglicanarum conditor, as Edward the confessor is the restitutor. Top-Meldungen - JuraBlogs.com
The word confessor is derived from the Latin confiteri, to confess, to profess, but it is not found in writers of the classical period, having been first used by the Christians. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
He had one or two Latin texts continually in his mouth on the nothingness and vanity of human life; and, had it been regular to have enjoyed such a plurality, he might have held the office of confessor to the jail in commendam with that of executioner. Quentin Durward
He had provided a father-confessor figure to absolve the youngster's sins and absorb his phobias.
After the incident of the "burning fiery furnace" (Dan. 3) into which the three Hebrew confessors were cast, Nebuchadnezzar was afflicted with some peculiar mental aberration as a punishment for his pride and vanity, probably the form of madness known as lycanthropy (i. e, "the change of a man into a wolf"). Easton's Bible Dictionary
He was to compliment the mistress, and bribe the confessor, to panegyrize or supplicate, to laugh or weep, to accommodate himself to every caprice, to lull every suspicion, to treasure every hint, to be everything, to observe everything, to endure everything. Machiavelli
Some confessors there be who laugh within their hearts at these sorrows of lovers, as if they were mere "nugae" and featherweights: others there are who wax impatient, holding all love for sin in some degree, and forgetting that Monseigneur St. Peter himself was a married man, and doubtless had his own share of trouble and amorous annoy when he was winning the lady his wife, even as other men. A Monk of Fife
Many see therapists today when what they may really need is a trusted and understanding confessor.
Moreover, he served the Brothers humbly in his office of sacristan for nearly four years, and so that versicle which is sung for confessors was apt and fitting for him "who was ever pious and prudent, lowly and modest, sober and chaste and peaceful so long as this present life endured in his bodily limbs. The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
Should I be your professor or confessor?
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
And it is to turn the form of confession into one in which the penitent interrogates the confessor.
I say “in a country like this;” for, if there be any country which deserves that Science should not run wild, like a planet broken loose from its celestial system, it is a country which can boast of such hereditary faith, of such a persevering confessorship, of such an accumulation of good works, of such a glorious name, as Ireland. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
Today's reporters are unreluctant confessors of how they've been conned. The New Soft-Bitten Journalists
The state jewels were accordingly brought from the Tower of London and the medieval coronation regalia and vestments, several pieces of which had almost certainly belonged to Edward the Confessor, from Westminster Abbey.
The audience takes the place of his confessor and, thanks to a compelling performance, experiences both disgust and fascination.
We warned all the venues of the need to have copious numbers of confessors and they responded magnificently - though many priests expressed amazement at the numbers attending the sacrament.
She clasped her hands in a parody of a confessor.
Mrs Culpepper was to my certain knowledge an Easter communicant and not much more at St Edward the Confessor's, our parish church. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
He had never been good at talking of his emotions, conceding psychological advantage to his confessor.
Among regular clergy, the orders of friars retained a slightly double-edged esteem among the laity as skilled confessors and dramatic preachers.
The principal clerical journals carried articles that encouraged confessors to ask penitents about ‘sins against marriage’ whenever the penitent gave cause for suspicion in this regard.
He was their adviser, confidant and father confessor.
British writer Andrew Morton, best known as the confessor of the late Princess Diana, is taking on Angelina Jolie in his next unauthorized biography. Book Buzz: 'Angelina,' 'Carrie Diaries' and 'True Prep'
The last publicized stigmatic was Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk in Italy who gained world recognition as a faith healer and confessor. TOUCH
… He [Praxeas] was the first to import into Rome this sort of perversity, a man of restless disposition in other respects, and above all inflated with the pride of martyrdom [confessorship] simply and solely because of a short annoyance in prison; when, even if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profited him nothing, not having the love of God, whose very gifts he resisted and destroyed. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
When she was well again, her confessor directed her to the Society of Mary Reparatrix whose members were dedicated to Eucharistic adoration in union with Mary at the foot of the Cross, making reparation for the sins of the world.
In the "interpolated" manuscripts we find that the lapsed, whose caused had now been settled by the council, are "on that hand" (illic), whereas the reference to the schismatics -- meaning the Roman confessors who were supporting Novatian, and to whom the book was being sent -- are made as pointed as possible, being brought into the foreground by the repeated hic, "on this hand". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
On his deathbed, his confessors had no trouble getting him to pay handsome damages to the church of Notre Dame at Mantes, which he had burned down with its town just before he was seized with his final illness.
One confessor ordered Veronica Giuliani to kneel while a novice of the order kicked her in the mouth.
The headhunters are their confessors; they only talk to their peers if they did well. It's Bonus Time, Baby! Mr. Stingi Keeps a List and Checks It Twice
Then she avowed in the hands of Master Conrad, which was a good man and her confessor, and promised that if her husband died and she overlived him, that she would keep perpetual continence. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
It was still Sam, his confidant, his confessor, his penitent, his port in the storm and most beloved brother.
Standing on the platform now, he watched them go - his own dear Indians who had become his silent family and friends, even his confessors.
The first half begins with a necrology and calendar for the nuns, prioresses, and confessors of Maria Magdalena, as well as the General Masters of the Order based upon the Humbert prototype. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
An old, old house, centuries old, and refounded and endowed by the Confessor, and bestowed by him upon Saint Denis. A River So Long
Sometimes confessing is better for the confessor than the ‘confessee’ and just makes unnecessary trouble.
That's why it's a great protection to have a good confessor or spiritual director with whom you can be open and honest.
It is better to be a martyr than a confessor.
Admittedly, these confessions inevitably end with a blatant disclaimer stressing the confessor's heterosexuality, so I'm not trying to argue that lesbianism has become mainstream.
Maledicat illum cuneus martyrum et confessorum mirificus, qui Deo bonis operibus placitus inventus est. os The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Without in the least intending to, the church created the earliest model of the modern self with its id and unconscious (the secrets created by passion and hidden in shame), the ego of the confessant who is free to choose between self-revelation or concealment, and the superego, whether forgiving father confessor or the fire and steel of the Inquisition.
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
For the Russian Orthodox, the confession is an elaborate, intimate institution; the obligation is very much on the side of the confessing party, and there is great reverence for the confessor. The Accidental Autocrat
But he uses the legal term of judge to describe the role of priest confessor, and that terminology is far from my mind when I give absolution.
Its mandate was to hear the confessions of some of the most notorious perpetrators of atrocities during apartheid; these confessors could apply for amnesty in exchange for full disclosure.
He speaks from many years of experience as a priest, confessor, and moral theologian.
The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore, it is a crime for a confessor in any way to betray a penitent by word or in any other manner or for any reason.
The singing of psalms, provision of a confessor, entreaties for repentance, and the Eucharistic offering followed age-old traditions for those close to death, natural and otherwise.
Public confession, as made in the hearing of a number of people (e.g. a congregation) differs from private, or secret, confession which is made to the priest alone and is often called auricular, i.e., spoken into the ear of the confessor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
I strongly take issue with a college admissions officer's categorization of me as a "saleswoman" who provides a frivolous service ( "unnecessary orthodontia") to students applying to college ( "Independent Counsel," by Nicholas Confessore, October Atlantic). Letters to the Editor
The bishop and his men went once, twice, thrice around it, chanting all the while the litany of Christ, of Mary Ever-Virgin, the angels, apostles, glorious martyrs, confessors, and virgins sacred to God.
“It is a striking relique of antiquity,” replied the confessor. The Italian
It's an interactive video featuring real people confessing their most bizarre sins; with website viewers voting to absolve or condemn the confessor.
Itaque confessoribus effodiebantur oculi, amputabantur manus, nares vel auriculae desecabantur. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
On his return to England in 1042, as Edward the Confessor, he promoted many of these Frenchmen into positions of influence, as a counterbalance to the overweening power of the Godwine family.
A confession cannot fairly be called 'uncoerced' that results from the sort of calculated manipulation that appears to be present here - even if the police did not actually beat or torture the confessor, or threaten to do so," Judge Robert S. Smith wrote in a concurring opinion. NYT > Home Page
Rightly is he called the confessor of God, who continually preached the name of Christ, and who by his words, his examples, and his miracles excited peoples, tribes, and tongues unto the confession of his name, of human sin, and of divine promise! The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
But the confessorship of neither had any perceptible share in promoting the final victory of truth. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
Emma also returned to England and continued living in Winchester, where she allegedly had an affair with her confessor - a bishop, no less.
Then, in the following days, the various officers of the conclave, the conclavists, confessors, and physicians, servants of various kinds, are examined or appointed by a special commission.
Filmed on location in castles and churches, at the sites of coronations, battles and murders, the series brings to life the colourful characters of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror among others.
He caught the attention of Archbishop Hubert Walter by 1195, and through him became confessor and alms-giver to King John from 1204 to 1207.
Let us go with them to the home of his youth, where his confessorship began in childish sufferings for the sake of Christ. The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
The last publicized stigmatic was Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk in Italy who gained world recognition as a faith healer and confessor. TOUCH
It becomes utterly impossible, in the church of Rome, that the husband should be _one_ with his wife, and that the wife should be _one_ with her husband: a "monstrous being" has been put between them both, called the confessor! The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
The priest Don Juan, chaplain of the fleet, sailed on the almiranta, with Sargento-mayor Don Pedro Hurtado de Corcuera; and an Augustinian friar came, as confessor for the Pampangos, in The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
Hugh de Nonant, the new bishop of Coventry, one Confessor's Day had begun saying the introit, when his Lincoln namesake lifted up his voice and began the long melic intonation. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
If yes, the test held, prosecutors could use it against the confessor; if not - if interrogators had coerced the confession - prosecutors couldn't use it.
Anyway, these dice are used to either forgive or condemn the confessor.
Constantinople, but, in the second Iconoclastic persecution, he seems to have felt no vocation for confessorship, and went to Rome. Hymns of the Eastern Church
As his malady increased, he would call a confessor, and, pouring into the father's credulous ear a tale of woes, sorrows, superstition and humbug, he would make the convent a donation of _all his estates in South America_, and pray for a remission of his sins! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
A disquieting and disturbing aspect of the case was that the accused had become an arrestee, detainee and confessor of a crime before he was a suspect.

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