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	BSP Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St Francis, Catholic Association
		They live the life of penance of the Rule of 1221 in their own homes, as that is how St. Francis wanted it.
		It is a demanding lifestyle, of prayer, penance, and increasing simplicity and poverty, but the rewards are sweet, vast, and eternal for those who persist.
		The life of penance is to be lived quietly, so as to be virtually invisible to those around us.
	www.bspenance.org (662 words)

	Penance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penance also may be self-imposed, especially during the Lenten fast (mainly the Passion week, inspired by Christ's suffering; hence also flagellantism or even voluntary crucifixion) and Advent.
		Self-imposed penance, also called mortification of the flesh (because its natural weakness endangers the salvation of the soul unless duly controlled by the devout spirit), serves to detach the penitent of his worldly passions, as to draw him into closer union with God.
		Performing penance in public, as opposed to the privacy of the confessional chair, gives it the character of public humiliation, which is often more 'punishing' then the intrinsic pain or discomfort of the deed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penance (755 words)

	Penance (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penance is a body which several members of the St Croix family, all members of the Marvel Comics superhero team Generation X had been trapped in.
		Shortly after the formation of Generation X, Penance was dropped onto the front lawn of the Massachusetts Academy by Gateway, who spoke only to call her Penance.
		His intention was that Penance was simply a wholly deaf (and mute) girl from the (former) Yugoslavia and apparently named "Yvette", whose skin had drawn tightly around her as a result of Emplate feeding upon her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penance_(comics) (925 words)

	Circle of Prayer - The Sacrament of Penance
		Penance may be considered under a twofold aspect, as sorrow for sin and, more commonly, as the acts of self-abasement and mortification in atonement for sin.
		The confessor is to impose salutary and appropriate penances, in proportion to the kind and number of sins confessed, taking into account, however, the condition of the penitent.
		In order that the faithful may receive the saving remedy of the sacrament of penance, they must be so disposed that, repudiating the sins they have committed and having the purpose of amending their lives, they turn back to God.
	www.circleofprayer.com /penance.html (2365 words)

	PENANCE - LoveToKnow Article on PENANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The word " penance," applied to the whole sacrament, is also used of the works of satisfaction imposed by the priest on the penitent, i.e.
		In the middle ages " doing penance " was often a process as terrible and humiliating to the penitent as it was possibly edifying to the Church.
		Public penances have, however, long been abolished in all branches of the Christian Church.
	86.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PENANCE.htm (235 words)

	LENTEN PENANCE: Getting Back on Track - February 1997 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
		Penance is not some form of cosmetic surgery that simply changes the external actions of our lives.
		Penance should be the booster rocket that brings us back into the gravitational pull and orbit of others.
		Penance should deepen my awareness and experience of a loving, merciful God who runs out of his way to greet me with open arms at every moment of my life, like the father of the prodigal son.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Feb1997/feature1.asp (3296 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Sacrament of Penance
		penance to the deacon (in the priest's absence).
		Sacrament of Penance was instituted by Christ for the remission of Penance was instituted by Christ for the remission of sins committed after baptism.
		penance is such that it may be performed at once; in other cases it may require a more or less considerable period, as, e.g., where it is prescribed for each day during a week or a month.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11618c.htm (12476 words)

	Council of Trent, 14th Session - The Sacrament of Penance
		This sacrament of penance is for those who have fallen after baptism necessary for salvation, as baptism is for those who have not yet been regenerated.
		And though without the sacrament of penance it cannot per se lead the sinner to justification, it does, however, dispose him to obtain the grace of God in the sacrament of penance.
		For faith without penance effects no remission of sins, and he would be most negligent of his salvation who, knowing that a priest absolved him jokingly, would not diligently seek another who would act earnestly.
	www.trosch.org /law/trent-penance.html (2651 words)

	On the Sacrament of Penance
		Penance is a Sacrament in which the sins committed after Baptism are forgiven.
		The Sacrament of Penance remits sin and restores the friendship of God to the soul by means of the absolution of the priest.
		The penance must be performed at the time and in the manner the confessor directs.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Catechism/3/l17.html (1826 words)

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