penitential act
1act of contrition — ► act of contrition (in the Roman Catholic Church) a penitential prayer. Main Entry: ↑act …
2act of contrition — noun (in the Roman Catholic Church) a penitential prayer …
3Order of Penitents — The Christian movement known as the Penitents goes back to the 4th century. Those who had committed serious sins confessed their sins to the bishop or his representative and were assigned a penance that was to be carried out over a period of time …
4Confiteor — The Confiteor (so named from its first word in Latin) is one of the prayers that can be said during the Penitential Rite at the beginning of Mass of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. It is also said in the Lutheran Church at the beginning of …
5Anointing of the Sick — is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or unction (an older term with the same meaning) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person. Other religious anointings occur in relation to other… …
6Day of Atonement — Synonyms and related words: Fast of Av, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Weeks, Hanukkah, High Holy Days, New Year, Ninth of Av, Passover, Pentecost, Pesach, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Shabuoth, Simhath Torah, Sukkoth, Yom Kippur, asceticism, cold… …
7Yom Kippur — Synonyms and related words: Day of Atonement, Fast of Av, Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Weeks, Hanukkah, High Holy Days, Lent, New Year, Ninth of Av, Passover, Pentecost, Pesach, Purim, Quadragesima, Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, Shabuoth, Simhath… …
8asceticism — Synonyms and related words: Day of Atonement, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, Yom Kippur, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, avoidance, banyan day,… …
9fasting — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Lenten, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, cold purgatorial… …
10flagellation — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bastinado, basting, battery …
