| Although usually identified as a penitential psalm, Psalm 130 is also clearly a song of hope. |
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| Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity. |
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| After two years or more at Antioch, he finally withdrew to the desert of Chalcis to undertake the penitential life of an anchoritic monk. |
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| That must have come as news to millions of Muslims observing the Ramadan traditions of charity and penitential abstinence this past month. |
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| They were keenly aware of their sinfulness and eager to undertake the hardships of the Crusade as a penitential act of charity and love. |
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| In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed. |
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| The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying. |
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| Rose expresses joy that half a penitential season is over, and is used on the 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent. |
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| The virtual disappearance of the traditional hearing of confessions in the box has led to the penitential services being the alternative way. |
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| Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times. |
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| I noticed the penitential beds where the pilgrims who come for three days walk barefoot and also saw the dormitories where people sleep. |
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| Chinese emperors used to issue a penitential decree taking the blame for misgovernment or natural calamities. |
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| There will be a penitential service in the Dominican Church tonight at 8 pm and all are welcome to attend. |
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| According to tradition, Mary Magdalen spent the thirty years as a hermit in the desert devoted to penitential contemplation. |
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| At the 7.30 pm mass on Saturday evening and at the 12 noon mass on Sunday, a penitential Service will take place during the mass. |
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| After the homily, the penitential rite with the blessing and the imposition of the ashes began. |
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| Instead, the rites of Levitical sacrifice are inaugurated and the priesthood is instituted as a sort of permanent penitential reminder to the people of their sinfulness. |
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| Waiting for forty days to read your review seems positively penitential! |
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| Banknotes in the post, or penitential weekends in the country, were another kind of venom, a method for asserting social superiority. |
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| The penitential attitude is not a mortifying attitude, which kills life and condemns it. |
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| She is now said to be planning a penitential trip to India, filmed by Channel 4, in an attempt to rescue her career. |
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| Over the centuries, the penitential discipline of the Church has undergone a remarkable evolution. |
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| It is true, the beginning of Lent invites us to live in a penitential and austere tone. |
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| However, during penitential seasons and on mournful occasions, such as at the Requiem Mass, the Church restricts the use of the organ. |
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| A healing of memories involves also a spirit of repentance, a penitential spirit. |
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| He has been credited with writing a penitential, though his authorship of this work is still very much disputed. |
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| The Irish penitential practice spread throughout the continent, where the form of public penance had fallen into disuse. |
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| These penitential ceremonies occur in some villages in Lower Brittany on the feast day of the parish's saint. |
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| He was famed for his penitential sermons, lambasting what he viewed as widespread immorality and attachment to material riches. |
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| This first ending for the Audelay MS relies, therefore, on an implicit understanding of the trope's penitential and monitive purpose. |
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| After the opening hymn and penitential rite, family friends made several readings before veteran Irish cabaret singer Tony Kenny sang Alleluiah. |
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| His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports. |
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| In the second, when the monastic form of penance was extended to the laity, greater importance was placed on the penitential action and the reception of individual absolution. |
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| There has been considerable variation in the modalities of penitential legislation and practice, given the differing historical situations in which the Church found itself. |
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| One does not have to wear always a penitential hair shirt to keep one awake to these realities, but it is fatal to one's purpose to live always in a well-padded contour chair adjustable to one's comfort and mood. |
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| Penitents should also be made to understand that the Person encountered in the penitential rite is Jesus Christ, signified in the encounter with the minister of the sacrament. |
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| The period saw an increase in standing police forces and permanent penitential institutions. |
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| The options in the Book of Blessings for prayers before and after meals draw upon the traditions of the Church and conform to the festive or penitential character of the given day or liturgical season. |
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| Thus, Mozart set the Kyrie and Gloria with a sacred text in Italian in the style of penitential prayers. The text was suited for Lent, which occurred at the time of the benefit concert. |
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| Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. |
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| I suspect this is due in part to her conflating the Council of Trent's declarations on penitential satisfaction with the Pelagianism of the via moderna. |
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| A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation. |
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| In 1315 he was offered the possibility of return to Florence under certain conditions, including the payment of fines and undergoing a humiliating penitential ritual. |
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