Examples of 'penitential' in a sentence
Meaning of "penitential"
Penitential (adjective) refers to something relating to or expressing penitence or repentance
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- Pertaining to penance or penitence
- a book or set of rules pertaining to the Christian sacrament of penance
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And penitential psalms are chanted in succession.
It is also a home to a number of medieval penitential crosses.
I will give a penitential service tomorrow.
There is nothing there endorsing a penitential process.
Penitential life until his death.
The service has a profound penitential meaning.
Penitential practice for that day.
To recite the seven penitential psalms every week.
If you are really sincere in his penitential.
These are the penitential and the imprecatory psalms.
It has also been described as a penitential hymn.
Settings of individual penitential psalms have been written by many composers.
This is the first of the seven penitential psalms.
The penitential centre also includes a large number of patios.
Spend the rest of their lives in penitential austerities.
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Penitential activity after confession.
He never relaxed his penitential exercises.
The penitential ferial prayers were abolished with two minor exceptions.
Composed a rule and penitential code for his monks.
The service of a remarriage is penitential.
Judicial and penitential system.
It involves a day of rigorous fasting and collective penitential prayers.
And prolonged completion of penitential works before reconciliation with.
This makes us understand how important the penitential act is.
The sixth penitential psalm.
Funzioine purifying and penitential.
Many parishes have penitential services or parish missions at this time.
The hymn is also penitential.
Failure to observe one penitential day in itself is not considered a serious sin.
From that time he led an austere and penitential life.
The periods in question and penitential canons varied at different times.
Individual confession and absolution at the close of a penitential ceremony.
They were penitential prisons.
Her life was deeply penitential.
It is a penitential time.
Denying or limiting oneself from food is a traditional penitential practice.
Fasting is a penitential practice.
Colbert often wore a hair shirt of coarse horsehair as a penitential practice.
It is best known for the penitential rite held every seven years.
He slept little and often slept on the ground more as a penitential act.
General absolution at the close of penitential ceremonies tend to be the rule.
He sees a cloaked figure in a confessional and kneels for the penitential rite.
The professor has retired to do his penitential exercises and you know why.
The character of the office during these two days of the week is penitential.
Implementation of the national judicial and penitential reform plan is effective.
Early medieval penitential books contained a wide array of different penances for such trespasses.
Such it must remain also in the various penitential rites sanctioned by law.
For penitential reasons some would occasionally wear inner tunics made of sackcloth or camel hair.
The same collectivist mentality has provoked the vogue of penitential celebrations.
Galileo was ordered to read seven penitential psalms once a week for the next three years.
