| It would entail suspension from Eucharistic communion and taking one's seat in a special part of the church building reserved for penitents. |
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| Public confessions were made, and penitents touched a wampum belt as a pledge of reform. |
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| Father Gregory was used to the awkward silence of penitents, especially those who had not confessed in years. |
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| Ultimately, as a social phenomenon, it was about the relationship between a confessor and his penitents. |
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| On this Tamil festival, penitents pierce their bodies, tongues, and cheeks while some march on shoes of nails. |
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| The shame attendant on confessing to sexual sin should not be underestimated, especially for penitents raised on preternaturally high standards with regard to purity. |
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| Nobody escaped her tender solicitude, neither her religious, or the children or penitents. |
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| They are all communists, penitents, traitors, or renegades, racked by questions and remorse. |
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| Later, the growing numbers of penitents from all over France would keep him in the confessional for up to sixteen hours a day. |
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| The Curé of Ars had a different manner of conducting himself with the varied penitents. |
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| Other pilgrims, including not a few former Cathars, came as penitents. |
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| More painful was one's inability to give firm guidance to the many penitents who still asked, and now sometimes argued, about church teaching on contraception. |
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| This should be done with pastoral insight during the time of preparation, by offering basic pointers that allow penitents to measure themselves against the truth of the Gospel. |
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| Cottolengo became a good priest much sought after by penitents and, in the Turin of that time, a preacher of spiritual exercises and conferences for university students who always met with noteworthy success. |
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| In some confessionals, there may also be a chair behind the kneeler so that penitents who, due to old age or medical conditions, cannot kneel, can sit but still confess anonymously. |
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| Those who hear many confessions and see how people ordinarily approach the sacrament can be disconcerted by the way certain penitents come to confession without even a clear idea of what they want. |
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| One of the first implications of God's gratuitous initiative is that penitents should not come to the Sacrament of Reconciliation with undue apprehension. |
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| With regard to the sacrament of penance the spirit is one of encouragement both for penitents and confessors and avoids both extremes of laxity and rigorism. |
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| Religious fervour is expressed in the exuberance of the brightly coloured Indian Holi or in the gathering of the penitents during Holy Week in Catalonia. |
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| In any event, the confessor should not fail to use the sacramental encounter to lead penitents to some grasp of the way in which God is mercifully reaching down to them, stretching out his hand, not to strike but to save. |
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| The penitents form a procession and they walk together to a shrine, a church or any sacred place. |
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| The purpose of the vestibule, at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside. |
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| In Dante's scheme, the vice for which the penitents are being punished is highlighted by a commensurate virtue, experienced ascetically. |
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| But we do know that that same gaze looks upon each of our penitents. |
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| The minister of pardon, who exemplifies for penitents the face of the Good Shepherd, must express in equal measure the mercy already present and at work and the pardon which brings healing and peace. |
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| That way, co-operative governments know that they cannot be taken advantage of for long, whereas free-riders can be punished and penitents brought back into the fold more quickly. There are flaws in the analogy, of course. |
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| In the 5th-century discipline of the Roman Church, the practice was to hear confessions at the beginning of Lent and to reconcile the penitents on Holy Thursday. |
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| There also was a category of penitents which consisted of backsliders. |
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| Penitents were solemnly restored in Holy Week, in the presence of the assembled faithful, in preparation for Easter communion. |
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