Word: penitente
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In the middle of the journey of our college life, I came to myself within the middle of a vast vault cemented on all sides. The easy way was out through the glass doors, but the Vision of my Section Man's distressed Face led me on out of the...
All this was just too high church for the delegates, who resolved to stick with hygienically superior individual Communion glasses, changed all references to the minister as "celebrant" of Holy Communion to "officiant," and refused to encourage private confession. "I was taught that confession is to God," said Florida Layman...
He acknowledges at last that he was present at the execution, and he is denounced by the Christians of the city for renouncing his faith in order to survive. He adopts the role of public penitent and stands at the altar of his church glorifying the twelve martyrs, whom, he...
Burn he does, in the bedroom of his penitent for many a clandestine night. But love of woman, like love of God, can eventually cool. The mysteries of the confessional stripped away, the couple see each other for what they are: rather drab, aging, unattractive people. The "holy night of...
When their case went to court last year, Actor-Director José Ferrer, 51, tried to talk Singer Rosemary Clooney, 35, out of divorcing him. Accused of carrying on with other women throughout the nine-year marriage, José seemed subdued and penitent, insisted he still loved Rosemary and wanted...