In the early church, the sacrament of penance did not even exist.

His place was with those who required the sacrament of penance, not comfort.

His work on the sacrament of penance is especially noteworthy.

He ought to make it a church law that the sacrament of penance should be practiced every month.

The spiritual health in the sacrament of penance is both internal and external.

That isn't part of the sacrament of penance, Kivrin thought.

The letter was, in fact, mostly a meditation on the sacrament of Penance, a topic that drew no questions from reporters.

'Have you read him on the sacrament of penance?'

The sacrament of penance was transformed from a social to a personal experience, that is from a public community act to a private confession.

In different parts of the world there is a great neglect of the sacrament of penance.

The sacrament of penance was a linchpin in the Catholic spirituality that prevailed from at least the 16th century.

This translation attacked the Catholic sacrament of penance.

To do this, he presided at communal celebrations for the sacrament of penance throughout the diocese.

And he said, "All priests and bishops need the sacrament of penance and reconciliation."

He'd carried from childhood a sense of the augustness and aura of the sacrament of penance.

The sacrament of penance, with confession and absolution, which are declared 'expedient and necessary'

A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation.

Unlike the Roman Catholic sacrament of Penance, the Consolamentum could be taken only once.

"In the sacrament of penance, one trusts God's merciful goodness in the simple confession of one's own guilt."

Some Penitential Services are based on the sacrament of penance and give people the opportunity to make an individual confession and receive absolution.

In the Sacrament of Penance a shorter form of absolution might be used in ordinary confessions.

This particular aspect of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain, suggests the sacrament of penance.

Perfect contrition, with the desire of receiving the Sacrament of Penance, restores the sinner to grace at once.

Absolution is an integral part of the Sacrament of Penance, in Roman Catholicism.

The sacrament of penance is considered the normal way to be absolved from mortal sins which, it is believed, would otherwise condemn a person to Hell.