How To Use Penitential In A Sentence

  • As a priest, as a man, after the long penitential years and the challenges of her own temperament, she was at ease. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
  • They learn of such circumstances through a variety of church communications, including prayer requests, requests for pastoral counsel, penitential communications, and even church gossip.
  • It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
  • She asked Mary Livingston, whom she greeted almost penitentially, to order her a bath of asses 'milk and to request a bread porridge for her, laced with cinnamon and sugar. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
  • 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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  • Shuffling penitentially on your knees, bending and scraping with dustpan and brush while vicious pine needles perforate your kneecaps...it's almost enough to make you feel like Christmas might, in a twisted way, be the descendent of some sort of primitive religious festival. After the Binge Must Come the Purge
  • Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
  • Our heads, shoulders, and hands were penitentially kissed, and presently the fellows returned to bind up their hurts in dirty rags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Some will say it was a remarkable act of self denial akin to the penitential days of renunciation in Biblical times.
  • Further, according to Fortescue, if there were no Rose coloured vestments to use on Gaudete and Laetare Sundays, violet vestments were used on those Sundays instead, including the violet dalmatic and tunicle (p. 245) -- which would be in keeping with the lightened penitential character of those Sundays. Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble
  • Sympathetically, they sang to him penitential psalms, particularly the Miserere, and the Litany of Loreto, while he gazed at a panel from their diverse collection of tavolette.
  • The holy man was fearful lest so delicious an abode should enervate the minds of his disciples, that the vigor of their intellect, so requisite for penitential reflections, should become relaxed when surrounded by objects so pleasant to the senses; and lest that which inspired gladsomeness should make them lose the seriousness necessary in prayer, and deprive them of the spiritual delight which is felt therein. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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  • This directed Gauguin's search for sacred art away from our world of afflictions, through a penitential view of personal martyrdom to a symbolist, dreamlike transcendence available to initiates alone.
  • Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with a thoughtful aspect. Our Mutual Friend
  • According to tradition, Mary Magdalen spent the thirty years as a hermit in the desert devoted to penitential contemplation.
  • However, the Dominican rite did exclude the use of the dalmatic for penitential times (as well as ferial days generally), thereby having deacon and subdeacon simply wearing the vestments proper to them, minus the outer dalmatic. Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble
  • That must have come as news to millions of Muslims observing the Ramadan traditions of charity and penitential abstinence this past month.
  • A penitential service for the boys and girls and anyone else wishing to take part will be held in Holy Cross church, Stradbally, on Monday, May 9, at 7.30 p.m.
  • After 1552, ‘the Angelics ceased to be missionaries, governors of charitable institutions, and penitential examples of religious zeal.’
  • Tears, blood and bread combine to sacramentalize the penitential psyche so that the weeping heart undergoes a kind of reverse alchemy, the alembic of Eucharistic topoi dispersing the self among the dust and dew shrouded by night sky.
  • Such thing like this has happened frequently and I know it is my essence: violating knowingly and pertinacity and just being conscious and penitential afterward.
  • At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. Mrs. Dalloway
  • El Silencio" was thus the first of the Sevillian penitential confraternities (which have their impressive processions during Holy Week) to recuperate the Extraordinary Form for its solemn acts. Usus Antiquior with a Sevillian Cofradía
  • Later in the afternoon, when they were home, it began to rain, one of the blistering, penitential downpours of early summer. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • These windows have bright red and orange curtains; the clash with the penitential drabness of the rest of the building is peculiar.
  • I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property, — much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession. Great Expectations
  • In addition to the amice, alb, cincture and stole, the priest wears a black chasuble; the deacon wears a black stole, and, like the subdeacon, a black folded chasuble, the sacred vestments of penitential Masses. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
  • In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
  • There will be a service of light, a penitential rite for the boys and girls and adults and finally a rehearsal for all who will be taking part in the confirmation ceremony on February 22.
  • Chinese emperors used to issue a penitential decree taking the blame for misgovernment or natural calamities.
  • Later in the afternoon, when they were home, it began to rain, one of the blistering, penitential downpours of early summer. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations. Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
  • The steps were brought to Rome in the first centuries of Christianity and are 7) reverenced still by millions of people every year, who pass up them on their knees, deep in 8)penitential prayer.
  • Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware. Happy Birthday America! « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
  • Writing in French purified his style, and his translations into English of his work retain a penitential rigour and asperity.
  • 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.
  • Beck has followed up 1999's electro-manic "Midnite Vultures" with a return to gloomy acoustic mode (just as he followed his antic breakthrough "Odelay" with the penitentially somber "Mutations"). Fall Arts Preview: Music
  • That confession was required before Communion is evident from the penitential ascribed to St. Columbanus, which orders (can. xxx) "that confessions be given with all diligence, especially concerning commotions of the mind, before going to Mass, lest perchance any one approach the altar unworthily, that is, if he have not a clean heart. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • In addition to the amice, alb, cincture and stole, the priest wears a black chasuble; the deacon wears a black stole, and, like the subdeacon, a black folded chasuble, the sacred vestments of penitential Masses. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
  • 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.
  • The virtual disappearance of the traditional hearing of confessions in the box has led to the penitential services being the alternative way.
  • After two years or more at Antioch, he finally withdrew to the desert of Chalcis to undertake the penitential life of an anchoritic monk.
  • As a priest, as a man, after the long penitential years and the challenges of her own temperament, she was at ease. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
  • There will be a penitential service in the Dominican Church tonight at 8 pm and all are welcome to attend.
  • To begin with, we notice only the presence of two penitent saints, Mary Magdalene on the right identified by her ointment jar, and Jerome on the left in penitential dress, though without the usual stone that he employed to beat himself.
  • The Christian tradition of casuistry began at least as early as the Celtic Penitential Books of the sixth century.
  • I noticed the penitential beds where the pilgrims who come for three days walk barefoot and also saw the dormitories where people sleep.
  • Donning my penitential grey flannels and Harris Tweed jacket and with my ill-fitting shoes in hand, I stole down the main staircase to the front porch. The mission song
  • Although usually identified as a penitential psalm, Psalm 130 is also clearly a song of hope.
  • The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.
  • Acheron, from which were heard to sound, by sullen and intermitted fits, the penitential psalms which the Greek Church has appointed to be sung at executions. Count Robert of Paris
  • They were keenly aware of their sinfulness and eager to undertake the hardships of the Crusade as a penitential act of charity and love.
  • And cilice pronounced SILL-iss, from Latin cilicium 'Cilician' is "Hair-cloth; a rough garment made of hair-cloth, generally worn as a penitential robe. Languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB.
  • Waiting for forty days to read your review seems positively penitential!

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