The commissary ordered that barefoot and in penitential fashion, he should offer a candle for the forgiveness of his sins. From LearnThat.org.
The Day of Atonement is the great penitential day of the Hebrew calendar. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
penitential tears. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Bragan rite also mentions the use of the folded chasuble in penitential seasons, including upon Good Friday. From Wordnik.com. [Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble] Reference
Those that sow in penitential tears shall reap in the joys of God's salvation when the times of refreshing shall come. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Those that humble themselves in penitential shame and fear shall soon be encouraged and exalted; those that are struck down with the visions of. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Folded chasubles were not used, but in penitential times, deacon and subdeacon merely wear their proper vestments, minus the outer vestments of dalmatic and tunicle. From Wordnik.com. [Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble] Reference
I've dallied with the idea of making these for a while but was worried about the 'penitential' aspect as well - good to know they turned out better than the commercial ones!. From Wordnik.com. [Digestive Biscuits] Reference
It was a kind of penitential class for dunces during play-time. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
Exceeding great was the austerity of his penitential life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Spirit to teach me the way of life, and penitential tears began to flow. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Forward went the catechism, a penitential gloom succeeding the sinful indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The phenomenon continues to grow as more and more people take part in the penitential rite. From Wordnik.com. [Thousands Join Italian Self-Punishment Rite] Reference
This absurdly decorated gallant could stab a rival in the back or write a penitential lyric. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
He led this laborious and penitential life till he was forty years of age, when the bishop of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
These simples are most edifying in such persons who were called to a retired penitential life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
A mitigation of penitential practices was therefore openly and undisguisedly advocated but Sister. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Here was truly a mortified, humble, and penitential spirit, such as this fallen world seldom sees. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
The commentary on the seven penitential psalms Ceillier thinks to be his work: but it seems doubtful. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
With penitential tears and earnest cries he sought mercy, and at length professed to obtain salvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
Jerusalem; and both led a very penitential religious life, first in that city, and afterwards at Bethlehem. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Perhaps he would have even lent me money, if I had met him in the penitential mood; but I was not to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
While he was reciting the penitential psalms before the altar, the conspirators rushing in, his head was cloven by. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
One form in which the penitential mood receives expression is in confession in which the penitent acknowledges his sins. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Guardia Sanframondi's penitential rite is the largest of its in the Western world and takes place here every seven years. From Wordnik.com. [Thousands Join Italian Self-Punishment Rite] Reference
In this most rigorous penitential institute his whole comportment inspired with humility and devotion all who beheld him. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He made the visitation of his order on foot, without discontinuing any of his penitential austerities, or rather exercises. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
To the numerous penitential austerities enjoined by his order, he added as many more as an ingenious self-denial could devise. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The fame of his sanctity being spread abroad, it occasioned several to forsake the world, and imitate his penitential manner of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
But as if her divine Master made light of these penitential exercises, He sent her a more terrible trial than any she had yet endured. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
He daily said the seven penitential psalms and the litany of the saints, and gave himself a severe discipline while he recited the litany. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The boys, you may be sure, thought twice in future before risking another penitential week of branding and ridicule for breach of discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
When I was a young man, the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance -- the Trappists 'official name -- was storied for its penitential practices. From Wordnik.com. [Retreat Into Silence] Reference
"A bishop is not a corporate executive, is not a politician," he told anguished Catholics on the Sunday before the start of the penitential season of Lent. From Wordnik.com. [Faith In Our Fathers?] Reference
His Finance minister, Antonio Palocci, has kept to an almost penitential path of tight money, miserly budgets and a no-frills package of constitutional reforms. From Wordnik.com. [CONFLICTING SIGNALS] Reference
Hundreds of thousands turned out for the final procession of a traditional penitential rite that takes place in the southern Italian town of Guardia Sanframondi every seven years. From Wordnik.com. [Thousands Join Italian Self-Punishment Rite] Reference
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