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Penance
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Penance. In Christianity, punishment (Lat.,
poena) for sin. By the 3rd cent. the system had emerged in which the sinner, after public confession, was placed, once only in his or her life, in an order of ‘penitents’, excluded from communion and committed to a severe course of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for a specified time. This scarcely workable system gave place to another, originally
Celtic, in which confession was made privately. Public penance continued for notorious offences. From all this developed the Catholic practice of
confession,
absolution, and light penance.
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The Practice of Penance, 900-1050.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Practice of Penance, 900-1050. By Sarah Hamilton. Royal Historical...Standard accounts of the development of penance in the early Middle Ages distinguish the early church's canonical penance, which required a sinner's public humiliation...
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The Practice of Penance, 900-1050
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Practice of Penance, 900-1050. By Sarah Hamilton...medieval approach to the practice of penance: the legal collections of Regino of...instruct the lower clergy (chap. 2); penance among monks and canons (chap. 3...
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The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France. By Mary...reinterpretation of the history of medieval penance. The book has two principal, interrelated...is to reject the thesis that medieval penance is the progenitor of the privacy, interiority...
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Penance; HEAVY HITTERS
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 9/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...The riff-intensive Penance fiercely plods along...capitalism at its best." Penances music is a melancholy...enough, in fact, that Penance has plans for tour dates...Goppingen, Germany. Penances may be a dark, dark...Photograph (Doom patrol: Penance)
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FRIDAY PENANCE REVIVED CATHOLIC BISHOPS PUSH RENEWAL OF TRADITION.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 11/11/1997; 700+ words
; ...renew the ancient practice of observing penance on Fridays. The bishops could recommend that the Friday penance be fasting, abstinence from meat or some...in the mid-1960s. ''The call to do penance is rooted in Scripture and in our Catholic...
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PRIESTS PERFORM PENANCE FOR CHURCH PARISHIONERS PHONE IN IDEAS FOR PUNISHMENT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Ana. "If my doing public penance makes anyone more at peace...in Santa Ana to review the penance suggestions called in by more...prayer, the priests chose their penances from a list of more than 20...in a soup kitchen. For his penance, Bishop Soto promised to meet...
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Priests do public penance to show solidarity with sex-abuse victims.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...soup kitchen in Santa Ana for a day of penance. At times the 54-year-old grandmother...thought to be the first day of public penance for the ongoing sex abuse scandal that...with the idea in November to do public penance. They began e-mailing fellow priests...
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Profile: Catholic priests undertake day of penance for recent church scandals
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 12/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Profile: Catholic priests undertake day of penance for recent church scandals Host: ALEX...priests participated in a day of public penance, one of the first of its kind since the...Father John McAndrew began his day of penance by praying with his congregation at San...
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The Irish Penitentials and Their Significance for the Sacrament of Penance Today
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Their Significance for the Sacrament of Penance Today. By Hugh Connolly. (Blackrock...significance of the ancient Irish handbooks of penance. After placing the penitentials in their...differently, "an analysis of the sacrament of penance and its parts passed through the filter...
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The Irish Penitentials and Their Significance for the Sacrament of Penance Today.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...contrast with the usual evaluations of Celtic penance, Connolly puts forward a theological study...He claims a basic continuity between Celtic penance and the present reformed Rite of Penance and highlights the penitentials, significance...
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Penance
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...took place, though here Penance was bound up with spiritual...people. The theology of Penance depends on the ability of...inconvenience occasioned by long Penances, the system of commutation grew up. A Penance of years could be compressed...
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penance
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...repentance for having done wrong: he had done public penance for those hasty words. 2. a Christian sacrament...repentance. • v. [ tr. ] archaic impose a penance on: a hair shirt to penance him for his folly in offending.
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Penitence
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Ancient Mariner telling his tale is penance for his guilt. [Br. Poetry: Coleridge...Christians who practised public flagellation as penance. [Christian Hist.: NCE , 959] Henry...Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 272] penance Catholic sacrament, whereby the penitent...
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penitentials
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...the offender is healed. So penances (e.g. fasting for a fixed...the notion of ‘the penance of tears’ that anticipates...development of sacramental penance, and, since longer penances could be commuted to less demanding...
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Church of England
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...works and regularly receive the sacrament of penance. Even then their souls did not usually go...been fully expiated through contrition and by penance. People who died without having done penance for mortal sin were damned to hell. Besides...
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