penances

Lacerations and what we would call penances, be it remembered, are done to the honour of a Deity; they are not a discipline like the self-whipping of the Flagellants and the jumping of the Jumpers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

They preached, confessed, and forgave sins, declared that the blood shed in their flagellations had a share with the blood of Christ in atoning for sin, that their penances were a substitute for the sacraments of the church, and that the absolution granted by the clergy was of no avail.

Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German Charles Morris 1877

When he recalled the penances practised by holy persons, his whole mind was bent on doing something to equal and even surpass them.

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius 1523

But before Browne's advent and in the days of Henry the Eighth, there had been a large, respectable, and steadily increasing party whose desire was to remain within the English church, but to purify it from superstitious rites and practices, such as penances, pilgrimages, forced oblations, and votive offerings.

The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

In many other things, such as penances, good works, and prayers, with His aid we can help ourselves as far as human weakness will allow.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

"What greater austerity can there be than to keep our will in subjection and In continual obedience, Reassure yourself then, O lover of voluntary penance, if, indeed, the works of self-love deserve to be called penances!

The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618

"Bhishma said, 'I tell thee, O Yudhishthira, that one attains to a region of felicity that corresponds with the kind of penances that one observes.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Vianney is said to have lived on a diet of potatoes, almost no sleep and very severe physical penances.

Fr. George Rutler to deliver lecture on Cure d’Ars... 2009

In order to study the religious practices of the Penitentes, a brotherhood of local men who engage in severe, medieval penances, Bain feigns a conversion to Catholicism and participates in their Lenten observances, including their dramatic public procession on Good Friday.

Fiction 2009

In order to study the religious practices of the Penitentes, a brotherhood of local men who engage in severe, medieval penances, Bain feigns a conversion to Catholicism and participates in their Lenten observances, including their dramatic public procession on Good Friday.

Books 2009