Sentence examples for penitence from high-quality English sources.

• Mournful penitence appeared on every feature.

• Celebrated on Tishri 10, it is marked by fasting, penitence, and prayer.

• She would not be ashamed of the appearance of the penitence, so justly and truly hers.

• They have met with survivors and led Masses of penitence and healing; they have apologized and begged for forgiveness.

• Celebrated on Tishri 10, it is marked by fasting, penitence, and prayer.

• The Ten Days of Penitence begin on Rosh Hashana and close with Yom Kippur.

• His successor, Gregory VIII, issued a Crusade bull and called for fasting and penitence.

• For many Christian churches, Easter is the joyful end to the Lenten season of fasting and penitence.

Use penitence in a sentence.

• It is the culmination of a 10-day period of penitence and reflection that begins with Rosh Hashana (New Year’s Day).

• Its setting was some situation of national calamity, when a period of prayer, fasting, and penitence would be observed.

• Yet some people doubt the effectiveness of either re-education or high-profile penitence in reducing the jihadist urge.

• Here too we express penitence both for our neglect and for having sometimes regarded evangelism and social concern as mutually exclusive.

• The rites such as confession, penitence, and confirmation that are an important function of many Christian churches are likewise not conducted in mosques.

• Father Karadima was convicted by the Vatican in 2011 of abusing teenage boys beginning in the 1980s, and he was ordered to lead a “life of prayer and penitence.”

• Bishop Barros spent over 30 years alongside Father Karadima, who was found guilty of sexual abuses by the Vatican in 2011 and ordered to a life of seclusion, prayer and penitence.

• The most important author of religious literature was Jacopo Passavanti, whose Specchio di vera penitenza (“The Mirror of True Penitence”) is a collection of sermons preached in 1354.

penitence sentence examples

• As a sign of their penitence, they wore sackcloth and were sprinkled with ashes (Tertullian, De paenitentia 11; compare the biblical precedents Jeremiah 6:26, Jonah 3:6, Matthew 11:21).

• Around him, Sepúlveda saw his filthy, sweating, unshaved companions, men of different faiths, in poses of penitence and desperation, some with their eyes closed, praying, whispering, crossing themselves.

• Cardinal Ratzinger reopened the case against Father Maciel in 2004, and, when he became Pope, in 2006, he acknowledged the validity of the claims, forbidding Maciel to continue his ministry and limiting him to a “life of prayer and penitence.”

• She felt all the force of that comparison; but not as her sister had hoped, to urge her to exertion now; she felt it with all the pain of continual self-reproach, regretted most bitterly that she had never exerted herself before; but it brought only the torture of penitence, without the hope of amendment.