If he is convinced of your penitence, he will absolve you and finish by
imposing a penance.
There seems to have been a strong tradition in the house against lowering the dignity of the regular life by
public penances.
Penance performed.
/ p p william glover was noted for the same offense.
He did seven
years ' penance
for a sin he had committed.
Penance in the church
for fornication.
Penance for the ultimate sin.
People found guilty of defamation were usually asked to
perform a penance.
One hour of suffering there will be more bitter than a hundred years of the most
severe penance
here.
Penance service
in church at which the children will make their first confession.
Penance for the murder
of iphitus.
He won't ask you to
do penance
to prove yourself worthy of his love.
I came here specially to let you off the
little penance
which would otherwise have followed your little offense.
Penance for slaying
his wife and children in a fit of madness.
Why aren't the viewers expected to want him to
pay penance?
Similar penance
was imposed, and at eyke he certified that he had performed penance / p.
Penance for one year, and no one lived with him.
His death sparked outrage throughout europe and culminated in the king
making public penance.
They tell us our
lenten penances
must be sincere.
She
underwent harsh penances
sometimes to keep herself as pure as purity can be.
Sometimes, as a
self-imposed penance, he would stand up to his neck in a lake of cold water, reciting scripture.
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