Though their penitents say they committed no sins themselves, yet that is not sufficient.
Hence, parish priests and confessors should endeavour to withdraw their subjects and penitents from them".
His fine face, his courtly wit, his graceful bearing, brought him hosts of fair penitents, and these fair penitents made for him high friends at court.
They said he was too fond of power; they said he spent more time with his female penitents than became a monk.
The Prayer-book refers penitentsto a "discreet and learned" minister of GOD'S Word.
Anglican formula of ordination to the priesthood; and a form of words to be used by the priest in the private absolution of penitents is prescribed in the Office for the Visitation of the Sick.
The light grew clearer--the song of the penitents jubilant with hope.
After a time, having convinced himself that they were all good penitents and being a kindly sort of man, he thought that other people might like to share in the seductions which the place afforded.
Instinctively she recalled the earnest injunction of Father Gervaise to his penitents that, when kneeling before the crucifix, they should repeat: "He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
Let us repeat,' whispered my mother, 'those holy words of comfort which Father Gervaise ever bid his penitents to say, as they kneeled before the dying Redeemer.
And some few of the order are gone so far on their way to Rome, that they require their penitents to enter the confessional and make a full confession of all their sins, before they perform the delusive act of absolution.
The whole course of subjects proper to a mission could not be got through, neither could all the penitents be heard.
On days of procession they appear in a body dressed as penitents and masked, and distinguished by crosses on their habits.
Thus these disabilities, which weighed cruelly upon penitents and their descendants, drew their origin from different sources.
Moreover, the inquisitor inherited from his medieval predecessors an undefined duplicate function of confessor and judge--his culprits were penitents and the punishments he inflicted were penances.
It was not an infrequent occurrence that reconciled penitents were found, by testimony in later trials, to have made imperfect confessions.
Confessors, moreover, were ordered, under the same penalties, to withhold absolution from penitents who had not denounced all offences coming to their knowledge.
They procured letters from Rome, but submitted them to the Suprema and declined to use them, whereupon Valdes told the inquisitors to follow the letters and dispense the penitents from their disabilities.
What they said was this:--"You penitents are not able to fulfil the tasks which are enjoined you?
This question," says the Instruction of the Archbishop of Mentz to the commissaries; "this question ought to be put at this moment, that the penitents may thereby be the better disposed to contribute.
Night after night Grace played for saints and sinners, and the minister, who was far too honest to stretch the truth for the sake of a compliment, told her that the playing drew morepenitents than his prayers and sermons.
A history of the Low Countries, composed by Meteren, relates that a cordelier named Adriacem, a great preacher at Bruges, used to whip his female penitents quite naked.
At the commencement of the thirteenth century fraternities of penitents were formed at Perosia and Bologna.
Had he abandoned his watch for two penitents who had perchance been locked in the church?
Three times did thepenitents walk round the fire, the bells tolling, and the crowd observing an intense silence, as the servants handed to the young men books from the baskets to fling upon the fire.
But the reply, if reply there were, from the penitents was quite inaudible, though Dr.
The Bishop issues his orders to the penitents who are supporting the wholly unconscious Joan in their arms.
This being done, he calls the twopenitents dressed in long grey gowns who have remained at the foot of the scaffold, and delivers to them the almost insensible Joan Darc.
A few steps behind them, and sustained by two penitents whose grey robes, covering them from head to foot, are pierced with two holes at the elevation of their eyes, Joan advances slowly.
At a later date the same indulgence was granted to penitents who aided the holy wars with money instead of in person.
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Have I not availed myself of what I heard in confession to induce my penitents to commit sin?
Some time after, some people waylaid and whipped that very same priest, when during a very dark night he was coming back from visiting his fair young penitents the Misses Rs.
At the end, it was found that the number of priests who had destroyed the purity of their penitents was so great that it was impossible to punish them all.
The first is, that you will never do anything to know my name; the second is, that you will never put me any of those questions by which so manypenitents are lost and so many priests for ever destroyed.
Let us suppose that each priest hears the confessions of only five female penitents (though we know that the daily average is ten).
On page 61, it reads that all penitents should examine themselves on the capital sins, and confess them "all, without exception, under penalty of eternal damnation.
After she had wept and prayed in silence, she said, "Do not weep for me, but weep for so many priests who destroy their penitents in the confessional.
But have they found a single one of their penitents who was certain to have remembered all the thoughts, the desires, all the criminal aspirations of the poor sinful heart?
Such is the law which the priest himself has to obey, and which puts his penitents at his own discretion.
When Xavier had reduced his penitents to that point at which he aimed, that is, when he had brought them to confession, they cost him not less pains than formerly.
Though yourpenitents may be well prepared for confession, think not, when they shall declare their sins, that your business is done.
The old inquisitor, who relates the last case, and writers like de Sousa and Alberghini, all speak of strippingpenitents and disciplining them as a species of solicitation, to be visited with the same penalties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penitents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
