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Definitions of penance in various dictionaries:
noun - remorse for your past conduct
noun - a Catholic sacrament
noun - voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
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| Religiously, it's a punishment undergone in token of sorrow for sin |
| Pope Urban II told the crusaders to fight not for honor or money but for this act of religious self-punishment |
| For a Catholic after confession, it may consist of 3 Hail Marys & 4 Our Fathers |
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| a Catholic sacrament repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution |
| voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing |
| remorse for your past conduct |
| Penance description |
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| Penance is repentance of sins as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession. It also plays a part in confession among Anglicans and Methodists, in which it is a rite, as well as among other Protestants. The word penance derives from Old French and Latin paenitentia, both of which derive from the same root meaning repentance, the desire to be forgiven (in English see contrition). Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have come to symbolize conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising from the controversy as to the respective merits of "faith" and "good works". Word derivations occur in many languages. |
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| AMENDS |
| ATONEMENT |
| COMPENSATION |
| CORRECTS |
| EXPIATION |
| RECOMPENSE |
| RESTITUTION |