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penitential

Chiefly RC Church a book or compilation of instructions for confessors

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Perhaps lesser bishop, old Nick, would be more at home hanging up his fancy cope and mitre and penitentially sitting cross-legged on the ground munching through a plate of husks?

Christmas is not about logic

Yes, Catholics can affirm, penitentially and humbly, that the one, true church subsists in the Catholic Church, but this affirmation must infuse Catholic identity with the challenge to openness and outreach to engender the fullness of that unity with all Christians.

The ecumenical calling of the academic theologian to spiritual pilgrimage in service of gospel unity

While "dashing down shrines, smashing idols" in India, Conversion also "stands preaching" at Hyde Park Corner and "walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments" (109-110).