Penances were either general or local, or plenary or partial.
All who had perfectly observed every requirement of the penances and sacraments of the church to the close of their lives had the gates of =Heaven= opened to them.
Worn out with privations, penances and sensual temptations he returned in A.
The so-called Penitential books from the 6th century afforded a guide to determine the penances to be imposed upon the penitents in the form of fasts, prayers, almsgiving, etc.
Richard St. Victor held that the punishment of eternal death, which all mortal sins as well as venial sins entail, can be commuted into temporal punishment by priestly absolution, atoned for by penances imposed by the priests, e.
The Perfected were a kind of spiritual aristocracy who renounced all property and were sworn to celibacy, while they submitted themselves to penances of such rigour that their lives were often endangered, if not shortened.
The conflict between St. Cyprian and the confessors, concerning the power of remitting penances claimed by the latter, though it ended in the defeat of the confessors, shows clearly the influence they had obtained.
O my God, what penances did the love of suffering induce me to undergo!
Had I been able to perform any exterior acts as formerly, or penances for my evil, it would have relieved me.
Residing there for some time and gratifying the Brahmanas with the fruit and roots of the wilderness and clarified butter, those heroes began to practise ascetic penances of great merit.
There in that river is the tirthas called Diptoda where thy grandsire Bhrigu, O Rama, in the celestial age had practised ascetic penances of great merit.
And proceeding then to Gangadwara that illustrious and best of Rishis began to practise the severest penances along with his helpful wife.
And the Muni, endued with great ascetic merit, thereupon gave that girl created for himself to the king of the Vidharbhas who was then undergoing ascetic penances for obtaining offspring.
What an awful sin must have been committed by them, who have killed thee with hundreds of sharpened shafts, although thou wert an aged man, and engaged in penances at the time and absolutely averse to fighting with them.
He by force of his penancescaused Indra to rain; and that god, the slayer of the demons Vala and Vritra, dreading him, poured down rain during a drought.
Proceeding next, O lord of earth, to the sacrificial region of the gods known by the name Prayaga, they bathed in the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna and residing there practised ascetic penances of great merit.
They had been in the first instance burnt by the force of penances performed by the saints, who had matured their selves; therefore, the demons, though they tried to the utmost, were at last slaughtered by the gods.
And with ascetic penancesof the most severe kind, they gratified Brahma.
And in grief for the death of a child, he practised the severest penances to have a child that should be immortal.
These penances did not interfere with the social position and self-respect of the penitent.
Penances of this character could be varied ad infinitum at the caprice of the inquisitor.
Scarcely separable from the practice of fines was that of commuting penances for money.
They were likewise held to the duty of surveillance over penitents to see that the penancesenjoined were duly performed, and to report any cases of neglect.
If special penances had been imposed, on their fulfilment the inquisitor, if he saw fit, might declare the penitent to be a man of good character, but this did not alter the reservation in the original sentence.
Yet the inquisitors finally triumphed and won the right to inflict pecuniary penances at discretion.
Warm baths were essential to the comfort of the Anglo-Saxon; to be deprived of them and of a soft bed was one of the severe penancesimposed by the Church.
Many penances and mortifications were imposed on the nuns, besides others which were voluntarily assumed.
While the penances imposed upon him were not severe, Tristan chafed nevertheless under the restraint they laid upon his soul.
I shall consider what penances are most fit for one who has transgressed as you have, my son.
This alternative failing, Tristan was utterly at sea as to what he would do, the prescribed rounds of obediences before the shrines and the penances accomplished.
These penances completed, whereof you speak--do you intend returning to the land of your birth?
These penances were not uncommon; and Clement, though he had little faith in this form of contrition, received the services of the incognita as a matter of course.
Still the knee had to be bended, and prayers offered up, penances performed, and fastings endured, before the conscientious priest promised to intercede for the sinner.
Many of the penances they inflicted were severe; he who was guilty of any heinous offence, was to lay aside his weapons, travel barefooted many weary miles, nor seek household shelter during the night.
Long after penances and prayers were over, and by others she might have felt herself forgiven, she was as far as ever from that forgiveness which comes from within.
Long vigils and heavy penances failed to ease the grief in his heart, or to set at rest its yearning toward the child who had been redeemed from barbarism, through his teaching, to live a Christian life and die in the hope of his faith.
They did not dispute Saint Augustine, but they adhered to penancesand expiations, which entered so largely into the piety of the Middle Ages.
Its fundamental principle appears to be the desire to propitiate the Deity by penances and ascetic labors as an atonement for sin, or as a means of rising to a higher religious life.
The idea of penances and expiations, pushed to their utmost logical sequence, was salvation by works and not by faith.
Her disciples abandoned to her their free-will and all their faculties; they had no need of fasts and penances but could transfer their sins to her and the path of salvation lay through sensual indulgence.
The penances were then very severe; but as a man could buy them off with money, or might substitute others to perform them, they lay easy upon the rich [l].
But many of the superstitious observances of the church, ridiculous in themselves, excited her native merriment; nor could all the penances of the confessor restrict the playful license of her tongue.
But temptations and strife forced their way into the cells of Asma, and the eloquent friar was torn away from his prayers and penances and brought prominently forward by the backslidings of the men of Languedoc.
The latter died in Asia, not being able to support the rigorous penances he had imposed upon himself.
The more general penances imposed upon the owners of the forfeits are as follows, but the list could be very much extended:-- Bite an inch off the poker.
It would be a long and harrowing task to give a full account of all the austere fasts and penances that Kateri Tekakwitha underwent during the course of the year 1679.
He was a very grave and even gloomy man, who thought of nothing but the Church, and his penances and prayers, so that Eleanora said he was more of a monk than a king.
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