All 6 Uses
penance
in
Angela's Ashes
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- For your penance say three Hail Marys, three Our Fathers, and say a special prayer for me.†
Chpt 4 *
- Ah ...ah ...tell your grandmother to wash God away with a little water and for your penance say one Hail Mary and one Our Father.†
Chpt 4
- I assign the penance.†
Chpt 7
- No penance, Father?†
Chpt 7
- Sometimes he falls asleep and I don't have the heart to wake him up so I go to Communion the next day without penance or absolution.†
Chpt 13
- She suffered like the martyrs in olden times and God knows that's penance enough.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(penance) an act that shows sorrow for wrongdoing -- such as expressing regret, asking for forgiveness, or trying to make up for the harm done
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)