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He was afterwards transplanted from his peaceful solitude to Court, where he was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to Prince Charles, and was known as the Penitential Preacher.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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These canons, unknown to us in their original sources, are contained in the numerous so-called Penitential Books (Libri Poenitentiales) or collections made in, and in vogue from the seventh century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Burchard's Penitential, which is always detailed and precise, specially mentions the mare, the cow and the ass, and assigns forty days bread and water and seven years penance, raised to ten years in the case of married men.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Or you might choose to somehow tie the Seven Penitential Psalms into your day to day Lenten practice.
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The Church no more admits any style of music than it admits any style of the Canon of the Mass or the Propers or the Penitential Rite.
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But then, lightly beating one's breast, as Catholics do in one version of the Penitential rite during Mass, isn't a serious form of corporal mortification either.
The Return of Meatless Friday Francis X. Rocca 2011
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The devil, to which the monk sold his soul, is depicted in the Penitential – a chapter that takes the form of a handbook for priests, listing various sins and the corresponding forms of repentance.
The Devil’s Bible: The Biggest Book in the World | Impact Lab 2007
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I'd also like to see Penitential Rite A altered so that the Indulgentiam is restored and the Confiteor altered again to bring back at least a collective reference to the angels and saints and a reference to our Lady in its first half.
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Program notes for the play Selihot (Penitential Prayers, Hebrew).
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Jeremy de Satge, a committee member of The Keys, and a composer of some merit, has the premiere of his Penitential Mass for Eight Voices, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street on Sunday Feb 17th, at the 11 am sung Latin Mass.
Archive 2008-01-01 Joanna Bogle 2008
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