- A
penitential is a
book or set of
church rules concerning the
Christian sacrament of penance, used for
regular private confession with a confessor-priest...
- The
Penitential Act (capitalized in the
Roman Missal) is a
Christian form of
general confession of
sinfulness that
normally takes place at the beginning...
-
century saw the
development in
Ireland of
Penitentials,
handbooks for
confessors in ****igning penance. The
Penitential of ****mean
counseled a
priest to take...
- the
services of the
Hours and the
Divine Liturgy. In particular, the
penitential Psalm 50 is very
widely used.
Fragments of
Psalms and
individual verses...
-
Orders of
Morning and
Evening Prayer are
extended by the
inclusion of a
penitential section at the
beginning including a
corporate confession of sin and...
- that a
believer imposes on themselves, acts that are
called penances.
Penitential activity is
particularly common during the
season of Lent and Holy W****...
- The
Penitential of ****mean is an
Irish penitential,
presumably composed c. 650 by an
Irish monk
named ****mean (or Comini****). It
served as a type of handbook...
- The
Prayer of Man****eh is a short,
penitential prayer attributed to king Man****eh of Judah. The
majority of
scholars believe that the
Prayer of Man****eh...
-
prayers to the Holy Spirit,
Penitential psalms, litanies,
prayers for the dead, and
suffrages to the Saints. The
book's goal was to help his
devout patroness...
- Lannon, has
described it as "a
bizarre amalgam of
traditional piety,
penitential discipline, and
crude po****r moralizing; it aims at a
fusion of devotion...
