penitential in a sentence

Examples

1. The service may begin with the Penitential Rite or proceed directly to the preces.
2. Besides Lent, there were other penitential times customarily accompanied by fasting or abstinence.
3. He often scourged himself as a penitential act.
4. He slept little and often slept on the ground more as a penitential act.
5. The statue was commissioned by the Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Our Lady of Anguish.
6. The service has a profound penitential meaning.
7. Here they lived a hermitic penitential life characterised by prayer, manual work and silence.
8. The third type of penitential garment was for those who repented before they were sentenced.
9. Thomas Brampton translated the Seven Penitential Psalms from the Vulgate into rhyming verse in 1414.
10. The Seven Penitential Psalms were frequently translated.