I had confessed to Fra Gervasio, and he had bidden me do penance first, but the penance had never been imposed.
And that is why I cry to you to set me some penance ere I can make my prayer.
Will any penance restore to me my shattered faith?
Once I deemed myself devout; and because I had sinned and rendered myself unworthy, you found me a hermit on Monte Orsaro, seeking by penance to restore myself to the estate from which I had succumbed.
The penance for which I have cried out so long is imposed at last.
He left me an hour or so later, to make his way back to Casi, having heard enough of my past and having judged sufficiently of my attitude of mind to approve me in my determination to do penance and seek peace in that isolation.
That shrine was proved a blasphemy; and so the penance I had done, the signs I believed I had received, were turned to mockery.
So that your repentance is deep and real, and when by some penance that I shall impose you shall have cleansed yourself of all this mire that clings to your poor soul, you shall have absolution from me.
Where the memory of Giuliana had failed to move me to aught but penance and increasing rigours, the foul fiend sought to engage me with a seeming purity to my ultimate destruction.
Mea culpa,' full oft he cried, And for all his sins, unto God above In sign of penance he raised his glove.
How Sir Percivale forpenance rove himself through the thigh; and how she was known for the devil.
How Sir Bors met with an hermit, and how he was confessed to him, and of his penance enjoined to him.
Now, Sir Gawaine, said the good man, thou must do penance for thy sin.
Then the good man enjoined Sir Launcelot such penance as he might do and to sewe knighthood, and so assoiled him, and prayed Sir Launcelot to abide with him all that day.
Thus they endured in great penance six year; and then Sir Launcelot took the habit of priesthood of the Bishop, and a twelvemonth he sang mass.
Then him thought it was punishment for the four-and-twenty years that he had been a sinner, wherefore Our Lord put him in penance four-and-twenty days and nights.
The custom of scourging sinners as a penance was so well established that St. Louis's confessor often gave him the whip.
Howard followed with Miss Merry, and talked wildly about the future of English poetry, till they drove in under the archway of the Manor and his penance was at an end.
Maud would have blamed herself; she might easily, with her anxious sense of responsibility, have persuaded herself into accepting him as a lover; and then a life-long penance might have begun for her.
The avowal was a penance set to himself, but to it he never added more; and they feared his bitter temper and his caustic tongue too greatly to press it on him, or even to ask him whether his daughter were with the living or the dead.
As a sort of penance for his shamming illness, I shall kill Baptisto.
I thought they would have enjoyed themselves, but they have been doing penance all the evening.
The child of fun and deviltry and penance told the reason of his wild delight: "The Princess had to-day, as his countrywoman, bought out half his shop.
Then that modern but grand imposture called the Sacrament of Penance would soon be ended.
This institution ofpenance began rather of some tradition of the Old or New Testament.
I know it is very natural, and it forms a religious penance not to make excuses, even when unjustly blamed.
She is in the Castle, but to-day she will be out to do her yearly public penance at the church.
The other five were carried down unto [Illustration: Henrietta Maria doing penance at Tyburn.
The men on exposure had their heads and beards shaved, except a fringe on their heads two inches in breadth; women who made the penance in a hood of "rag" or striped cloth had their hair cut round about their heads.
Just punishment of a Grey Friar for the unwonted penance that he would have laid upon a maiden.
It is for those who came near him year after year to store up the many words and deeds of resignation, love and humility which that long penance elicited.
The only alternative was to fast, a penance in which H.
Loyola declared that it was true, lamented the trouble he had brought upon the beggar, and prayed he might be liberated; adding that he had made the exchange from motives of penance and religion, as well as disguise.
Here he at once adopted that spirit of fasting and penance which knew no moderation and with him became fanaticism.
These rooms would be prepared, and any one remaining here for the night might reasonably consider it a penance for his sins.
The penance Leonato enjoined him was, to marry the next morning a cousin of Hero's who, he said, was now his heir, and in person very like Hero.
In a voice of sorrow I asked him why he had thus treated me, and he replied, 'Such is the reward of treachery; and if you wish to recover your sight, you must for some time undergo penancein this cage.
Then says Siva: "For thy long penancewe grant thy request.
An inscription in the street marks the spot where, before its northern portal, Henry II of England did public penance in 1172, and received absolution from the papal legate for his guilt in the murder of St. Thomas Becket.
In the following year Raymond VI performed penance before the church door of St. Gilles--the last public canonical penance of the Middle Ages.
He took as his penance the replacing of the cathedral at his own expense, and since he was connected with the rich Norman princes of Italy funds soon poured in.
Armed crusading had run its course; the crusade by preaching, prayer, and penance was to begin.
If penance and mortification and priestly absolution failed to satisfy the guilty spirit, it must perish, for Christ's atonement was utterly rejected.
Barnes, it will be remembered, had been himself imprisoned for heresy, and had done penance in St. Paul's.
To this penance chained I bowed me in despair, as Thou, Lord, hadst ordained, Cast out from Thee and cursed.
Grant me, Lord God, this, In penance for the past, Death's full forgetfulness.
