1. For the Christian penance is something very personal between him and God. He may no longer walk barefoot in the snow but still the practice of penance has to mean more than 10 Hail Marys between Confession and Coronation Street.
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2. [E]nhance prayer through penance,..offer some token of shame and sorrow, to meditate on sinfulness, to reflect on Infinite Goodness, to bear witness through penance which rarely fails to provoke curiosity or conversely to keep the penance so secret that God alone sees.
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3. COLLECTIVE PENANCE: SACKCLOTH AND ASHES
Nor is penance confined only to our own sins but rather can also be a recognition of the sinfulness of the world we live in. In ‘Sackcloth and Ashes’ I refer to the example of some German nuns who after the Second World War
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Nor is penance confined only to our own sins but rather can also be a recognition of the sinfulness of the world we live in. In ‘Sackcloth and Ashes’ I refer to the example of some German nuns who after the Second World War
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4. chose to live on starvation rations and to labour all day as had the victims of the Holocaust..
From Canossa to giving up chocolates..even the smallest act of penance can be a building block in our relationship with Him who paid the greatest penance of all.
(A. Widdecombe)
From Canossa to giving up chocolates..even the smallest act of penance can be a building block in our relationship with Him who paid the greatest penance of all.
(A. Widdecombe)
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