Penance

And it is not just your neighbourhood parish priest who is due for confession, penance and civil punishment.

For centuries, confession or penance (as it was alternatively called) was the linchpin of the Catholic sacramental economy.

Slavery could be imposed as a religious penance or a criminal punishment.

They confess sins, do penance and engage in bhakti and karma yoga to raise consciousness.

The gospel called not for an act of penance but for a radical change of mind-set and an equally deep transformation of life.

This ritual of confession, absolution and penance inadvertently hides as much as it discloses.

This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance , i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.

For instance, if in an emotional dream you injured someone intentionally, you could perform a simplepenance the next day to atone, such as fasting one meal.

he had done public penance for those hasty words

Thomas of Chobham, author of a thirteenth-century confessional manual on penance , addressed this issue directly in his work.

On the minus side, being presented with such an array of dishes almost always results in the type of culinary blow-out which requires hours of penance in the gym afterwards.

I wasn’t going to have to start wearing a brown habit with rusty chains underneath as penance for my wrong doings.

A few years ago our parish hosted several priests who provided unusual penance services.

a hair shirt to penance him for his folly in offending

Every week they sinned quite a bit but on a Friday they would go and confess, do whatever they had to do as penance , then go out sinning again.

Will eternity be long enough to allow the penance required?

I simply mean that they are now living the suffering they’ve inflicted on others as penance for their sins.

Is confession really so good for the soul, especially when it requires no penance ?

The head priest gave him blessed, medicated ghee to take in the early morning for 41 days while observing a penance .

Readers, I have sinned, and penance suggestions may be required.

I’m doing my duty and my penance now, but I’ll always be a woman who loves a good show.

Through our open admission of our sins, the priest’s absolution, and the acts of penance , we can know God’s healing.

In Dante’s Purgatorio, the principle of sacramental penance holds sway.

This is the reason why we go to them for penance (the sacrament for confession of sins or repentance).

There is irony in this: just as sacramental penance has disappeared, a more generalized confessional culture seems to have exploded.

How, for example, would you explain religious sacrifice and penance which are an important motivator for many non-western consumers?

They extended to religious observance and penance , or expiation, though in the later period there is a tendency to concentrate on what looks more today, in the west, like law.

He’s doing an act of penance , and in the Hindu religion it’s a renunciation.

Some people like to stand miserably in the rain, taking each cold splash of water as flagellation from the heavens, enduring the torrent as penance for their internalised sense of guilt.