Thus in the Penitentials there grew up a system of =Penitential Redemptions= which formed the most despicable mockery of all earnest penitence.
In the Penitentials pœnitere is quite identical with jejunare.
His literary remains consist of Epistles, Sermons, andPenitentials of doubtful authenticity.
The concluding passage here given is to be found in many penitentials with but little variation.
The characteristics of the Western penitentials are their minute division of sins, their exact determination of penances for each sin, and the great extent to which they were used in the practical work of the Church.
There is, however, no known connection between the earliest penitentials of the Western Church, those of Ireland, and the similar books of the East.
In fact, his name is attached to penitentials in much the same way as David’s name is attached to the whole book of Psalms.
This is one of the earliest of the penitentials and belongs to the Irish Church.
The Dominican Penitentials afterwards adopted the name and character of a “third order of St. Dominic” or “Tertiaries.
The Penitentials also attempted to set up this same moral law for both sexes.
The priestly prerogative of regulating the amount of penance according to circumstances, with greater flexibility than the rigid Penitentials admitted, was first absolutely asserted by Peter of Poitiers.
The Penitentials began to come into use in the seventh century, and became of wide prevalence and authority during the ninth and tenth centuries.
Then Alain de Lille threw aside the Penitentials as obsolete, and declared that the priest himself must inquire into the circumstances of each sin and weigh precisely its guilt (Lea, op.
They equally affected the Christian Church, and the Penitentials ordained forty or fifty days penance for sexual intercourse during menstruation.
The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials declared that menstruating women must not enter a church.
In its Penitentials sins of unchastity were the favourite topic; and its horror of them finds an echo in the secular legislation of the first Christian emperors.
Various penitentials condemned to penance a person who, in giving evidence, swore to the best of his belief, in case his statement afterwards proved untrue.
The Penitentials tell us the tale of universal intemperance more effectively than any description of it could do.
The laws of Ine the West Saxon, and of Offa the Mercian, with the Penitentials of the Church, and the Charters, form the chief documents.
On this penitential and the somewhat older one of the Irish Columban the earlier Frankish penitentials are modeled, sometimes with literal exactness.
More stringent rules are prescribed by the councils; and new penitentials are prepared under ecclesiastical authority much more in harmony with the teachings of Rome.
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