1 : a person who repents of sin. 2 : a person under church censure but admitted to penance or reconciliation especially under the direction of a confessor.
caused by or showing sincere remorse. filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement; penitent: a contrite sinner.
As nouns the difference between repentance and penitentis that repentance is the condition of being penitent while penitent is one who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his or her transgressions.
rather than how gracious of a Savior Jesus is. The instinct of worldly sorrow is to try to atone for sin by brooding over it—by feeling so bad for yourself that you are reduced to despair. But the instinct of godly sorrow is to run to the cross of Christ where the only atonement for sin was made.
pellucid • puh-LOO-sid • adjective. 1 : admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion 2 : reflecting light evenly from all surfaces 3 : easy to understand.
Canticle, (from Latin canticulum, diminutive of canticum, “song”), a scriptural hymn text that is used in various Christian liturgies and is similar to a psalm in form and content but appears apart from the book of Psalms.
(intr) to swear, curse, or blaspheme. (tr) to invoke or bring down (evil, a curse, etc)to imprecate disaster on the ship. (tr) to put a curse on.
The Penitential Psalms or Psalms of Confession, so named in Cassiodorus's commentary of the 6th century AD, are the Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 in the Hebrew numbering).
THE PENITENTIAL ROSARY IS RECITED: 1. To implore mercy and pardon for our sins, and for all the sins of our brethren. 2. To obtain the grace of conversion, a sincere sacramental confession, and amendment of life. TO BE RECITED DEVOUTLY, WHILE KNEELING: 1.
adjective. Someone who has a sunny disposition is usually cheerful and happy.
1 : easily rolling or turning : rotating. 2 : characterized by ready or rapid speech : glib, fluent.
Synonyms & Antonyms of penitent
- apologetic,
- compunctious,
- contrite,
- regretful,
- remorseful,
- repentant,
- rueful,
- sorry.
adjective, un·friend·li·er, un·friend·li·est. not amicable; not friendly or kindly in disposition; unsympathetic; aloof: an unfriendly coldness of manner. hostile; antagonistic: an unfriendly act of aggression.
: marked by disorder or disarray disheveled hair.
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recluse. Antonyms: public, exposed, frequented, social, secular, unsequestered, convivial, companionable. Synonyms: shut, sequestered, retired, apart, solitary, conventual, regular, dissocial.
Penitent sentence example
- Origen implies that in his days the penitent might choose his own spiritual physician.
- And shortly after his penitent died unabsolved.
- The world saw with astonishment this vicious, rough, coarse-fibred man of the world transformed into an austere penitent , who worked miracles of healing.
Opposite of causing someone to lose their dignity and the respect of others. commendatory. complimentary. laudative. laudatory.
Four were known as 'penitential psalms' by St.Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century.
The "historical psalms" (Psalms 78; 105; 106; 135; and 136) emphasize the reflection of their own history. In its own way, each of the historical psalms creates memories of a "salvific primordial time," which includes the exodus and the conquest, in order to reinterpret the present through prayer.
I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. Psalm 34:1-3. I thank you, Lord, with all my heart; I sing praise to you before the gods.
Psalm 103 is the 103rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Bless the LORD, O my soul". The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
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Using the Hebrew numbering system, the following are traditionally categorized as psalms of communal lament:
- Psalm 44.
- Psalm 60.
- Psalm 74.
- Psalm 79.
- Psalm 80.
- Psalm 85.
- Psalm 86.
- Psalm 90.
The Penitential Act (capitalized in the Roman Missal) is a form of general confession of sinfulness that normally takes place at the beginning of the celebration of Mass in the Roman Rite. The term used in the original text of the Roman Missal (in Latin) is Actus Paenitentialis.
Day suggests that there are 14 psalms which may rightly be classified as imprecatory psalms. The following psalms in the Psalter are generally considered to be imprecatory psalms in the sense that a major part of each psalm contains imprecations: Psalms 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 69 79, 83, 109 and 137.
Hermann Gunkel categorized ten psalms by their subject matter of kingship as royal psalms. Specifically, the royal psalms deal with the spiritual role of kings in the worship of Yahweh. Aside from that single qualification, there is nothing else which specifically links the ten psalms.
There are four collections of Hallelujah Psalms, the Covenantal Hallel (Psalms 105-106), the Passover Hallel (Psalms 111-118), the Great Hallel (Psalms 135-136), and the Doxological Hallel (Psalms 146-150). These seventeen psalms are the focus of this book.
