At the confessional she extorted from women the hidden secrets of their lives and those of their families, took the lead in devotion wherever there were pious men, and was equally foremost in the world of fashion and dissipation.
She had ventured in not long ago at twilight, with her cough and her pale face, in a silk gown and flower-garden of a hat, and crept into one of the confessional boxes, and told him her story.
It was not the confessional that attracted her, that was sure; perhaps not altogether the service, though that was soothing in certain moods; but it was the noble personality of Father Damon.
I think that an opera-box with Miss Eschelle is the easiestconfessional in the world.
But the most interesting thing about Montmajour is the little chapel, part scooped out of the living rock, part built in the ninth century, which is called the Confessional of St. Trophimus.
In one of the side chapels a number of small boys were awaiting their turn at the confessional box.
They are the confessional of the world, but they are also its gospel, and the altar where forgiveness is sealed.
Among the other editors of La Independencia was an apostate and liberal priest who had let his beard grow long, and used to tell his friends secrets of the confessional when he had been drinking.
Oftentimes, while Don Leandro was unbosoming himself, the confessor heaved deep sighs and made the confessional creak as though his chair pinched him.
They speak it to the clerk as a confessional secret," suggested Miguel.
Then he retreated, far from the fire, close to a table which was equi-distant from the confessional and the door giving access to the staircase hall.
Miss Bubbles was lying asleep in the confessional which is almost exactly opposite the door through which one enters the hall from the house side, thus the necessary conditions were present.
He didn't go into the confessional this morning," added Sister Sipa, a toothless old woman.
I believe the only time you really rest is in the confessional box.
He was all the more tranquil when he had assured himself that there was no one in the confessional except some devout women.
The lady who was kneeling in the Confessional turned her head a little hearing the noise of Julien's step in this solemn place.
What a confessional I have been sitting at, with the inward ear of my soul open, as the multitudinous whisper of my involuntary confidants came back to me like the reduplicated echo of a cry among the craggy bills!
People think theconfessional is unknown in our Protestant churches.
The strain of the confessional is too great for average human nature, and the most that the Church can do, in its most recent regulations, is to keep these lapses of the flesh from the knowledge of the faithful.
They were his penitents, but the outrage was not in the confessional and he had nothing to fear under the papal decrees.
This covered assignations under pretext of confession, to deceive onlookers, which we are told was a frequent custom and, as there were no confessional stalls, and the churches were largely deserted, there was little danger of interruption.
A competencia had arisen between the Seville tribunal and the episcopal authorities over a confessional which it had ordered to be closed.
He and his sister were in the confessional near the altar, when some duty called her away and she told Gerónima to go to her uncle.
By the confessional the priests poison the springs of life in our children.
Only in the confessional can the solution of that problem be found.
Mr. Brassard that I suspected that a girl was sent to my confessional to ruin me.
I felt so downcast by the disappointment of being removed farther from the Saviour by that confessional which had promised to bring me nearer to Him.
Need I tell you that, for most women, the confessional is a rendezvous of coquetry and of love?
Three other discourses followed that of Mr. Dubord, all of which were pregnant with details and facts going to prove that theconfessional was the principal cause of the deplorable demoralization of St. Thomas.
Would we not be more chaste and pure by living with our lawful wives, than by daily exposing ourselves in the confessional in company of women whose presence will irresistibly drag us into the most shameful pit of impurity?
While speaking to you of the deleterious effect of the confessional upon our children, shall I forget its effect upon our wives and upon ourselves?
The rest of the day, till ten at night, was spent in hearing the confessions of a great number of people whom the fear of death had dragged around my confessional box that I might forgive their sins.
The confessional is a place where one gets accustomed to hear, and repeat without a scruple, things which would cause even a prostitute to blush!
The bright luminaries which hover around Jupiter are not more exact in converging toward the brilliant star, than those pious young ladies were in gathering around the confessional box of Mr. Parent every week or fortnight.
You must not be discouraged when, through the confessional or any other way, you learn the fall of priests into the common frailties of human nature with their penitents.
The true motive power is secreted behind the thick walls of the Vatican, the colleges and schools of the Jesuits, the convents of the nuns and the confessional boxes of Rome.
The difference in confessional adherence was of no account, he said, and an immediate answer was desired.
Both ministers suggested that a contemplated match between the daughter of Paul I and the King of Sweden had fallen through because of the confessional difficulties, the latter being a Protestant, the former of the Greek Church.
It seemed as if each desired for the moment to get away from their mood in the confessional of Virgil's Grotto, and from the sadness of the white and silent day.
Both felt that it was no longer necessary to stay in this confessional of the rock.
The New York Ministerium separated from the General Synod on confessional grounds and took part in the organization of the General Council.
Schmauk and Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions of the Lutheran Church.
In 1868 members of St. James Church, who sympathized with the attitude of the General Council in favor of a stricter confessional basis, organized a new English congregation, Holy Trinity, of which Dr.
Such things as social service, church extension or confessional questions had not yet begun to disturb the churches.
In some of their original confessional statements the Reformed churches declared that the Spirit of God required no means of grace, since He worked immediately and directly.
The English hymn books and liturgies of this period are equally destitute of any positive confessional character.
In 1866 a number of pastors and churches, under the leadership of Pastor Steimle, severed their connection with the Ministerium for confessional reasons.
Thereupon most of the English-speaking members, occupying a milder confessional basis, left the Ministerium, formed the Synod of New York and united with the General Synod.
His labors in the confessional were almost beyond belief; for thirty years he spent in this severest of all the duties of a parish priest sixteen or eighteen hours a day.
Then he went quietly into his confessional as if nothing had happened.
He had a confessional at St. Joseph's, and he was au mieux with the Jesuits.
But the thought of Monsignor's confessional frightened her, and she thanked the attendant hurriedly, and went slowly to her carriage.
Upon this bed rock of human nature the confessional has been built.
A young lady, of extraordinary beauty, and held in great esteem by all the towns-people for the purity of her conduct and the sanctity of her life, used frequently to attend the confessional of this Carmelite friar.
Innumerable are the abuses made of this wicked instrument by the Spanish clergy, and which have resulted in the abandonment of the confessional by every educated, discreet, and intelligent man.
The church opened; she stole around the dark aisles, whence the daylight had not yet banished the shades of night, and noiselessly approached the confessional of the holy man.
They prayed for a moment, then Alvira flitted like a shadow through the dark aisles towards the confessional of Father Francis.
I had a bitter hour in the confessional on his mother's account.
Father Benedict had last seen the smith soon after his return from imprisonment, in the confessional of the monastery.
A very interesting stone hangs suspended from the gilded iron grating which protects the crypt or confessional of St. Laurence, immediately underneath the high altar of the great Basilica of San Lorenzo beyond the Gate.
They originally decorated the confessional of the old Basilica.
