| The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions. |
| We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate. |
| If he remains within the priesthood it is to practise life-long penitence in a kind of supervised internal exile. |
| This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination. |
| Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence. |
| Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. |
