Penitential

Today’s readings certainly set the tone for Lent as a penitential season.

The answer is that he broadened the manner in which the penitential obligation of Friday is carried out.

Abstaining from consuming meat and participating in penitential acts are for Catholics two practices that we usually associate with Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent.

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Accounts exist of the severity of his penitential practices.

Both the dialogues and the evolving paintings were ostensive penitential lessons that even illiterate people (who were the overwhelming majority) could understand.

Canon Law also obliges Catholics to abstain from meat on the Fridays of the year outside of Lent (excluding certain holy days) unless, with the permission of the local conference of bishops, another penitential act is substituted.

For a while, as the White Penitents approached Rome, gaining adherents along the way, Boniface IX and the Curia supported their penitential enthusiasm, but when they reached Rome, Boniface IX had their leader burnt at the stake, and they soon dispersed.

For penitential reasons, Maximilian gave very specific instructions for the treatment of his body after death.

He was famed for his penitential sermons, lambasting what he viewed as widespread immorality and attachment to material riches.

In contrast, the established Anglican Church "pressed for a more elaborate observance of feasts, penitential seasons, and saints' days.

In Judaism the Torah is read in public on Thursday mornings, and special penitential prayers are said on Thursday, unless there is a special occasion for happiness which cancels them.

In particular, the penitential Psalm 50 is very widely used.

Kneeling was considered most appropriate to penitential prayer, as distinct from the festive nature of Eastertide and its remembrance every Sunday.

Related popular practices are associated with Shrovetide celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations associated with the penitential season of Lent.

The Eastern Orthodox Church allows divorce for a limited number of reasons, and in theory (but usually not in practice) requires that a marriage after divorce be celebrated with a penitential overtone.

The period saw an increase in standing police forces and permanent penitential institutions.

This can happen for such reasons as not having confessed within that year; excommunication can also be imposed as part of a penitential period.