 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1857 - 648 pages
...addressing himself to all alike, said, ' Peace be unto you ; as the Father hath sent me, I also send you ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose you shall retain, they are retained ?' Does not this gift include St. Peter and his associates, without distinction or degree ? Do they... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - 1857 - 144 pages
...instituted the sacrament of penance, when, after his resurrection, he breathed on his disciples, saying, ' Receive, ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven, them ; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.' John xx. 22, 23. By that remarkable action, and by those... | |
 | Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori - 1857 - 654 pages
...does not say, 1 will " pour out" mv angel. As to justification, we hear Jesus say to his disciples: "Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven" (John, xx. 22, 23). If the power of forgiving sins comes from the Holy Ghost, he must be God. The Apostle... | |
 | Ambrose Manahan - 1859 - 600 pages
...to the consummation of the world. (Matthew xxviii., 20.) As the Father has sent me, I also send you Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins you shall forgive,...them, and whose you shall retain they are retained. (John xx., 21, 22, 23.) The faithful heralds of His good tidings did not long delay to fulfil the commission... | |
 | H. J. Thomas - 1859 - 502 pages
...remitting and retaining sins, which our Saviour bestowed upon His Apostles and their successors : " Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...: and whose you shall retain, they are retained."* He therefore wished that priests, His vicars on earth, should be so many judges, before whom Christians... | |
 | 1860 - 108 pages
...again : Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. St. John xx. 21. When he had said this, he breathed on them : and he said to them : Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Ver. 22. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them : and whose sins you shall retain, they... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...with you : as My Father sent Me, so do I also send you." After which He breathed upon them, and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." At His last supper, four days before, He had... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1861 - 800 pages
...therefore to them again : Peace be If you. As the Father hath sent me, I also snml you. When he had said this, he breathed on them ; and he said to them...shall forgive, they are forgiven them : and whose sins you shall retain, they arc retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didytnus, ""... | |
 | John George Wenham - 1861 - 398 pages
...which record the fulfilment of this promise : " As the Father has sent Me, I also send you. When He had said this, He breathed on them, and He said to them,...you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained" (St. John xx. 21-23). the penitent,—contrition, confession,... | |
 | H. E. Dennehy - 1861 - 416 pages
...remission or retention of sin was delegated to them, as one of the last behests of the Redeemer's love. " Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."* Let us leisurely turn over the items of these two texts,... | |
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Peace be to you: as the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. 
