Word: penitente
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Now mark you. Allowing the unknown penitent three cuts per week, since the 19th of October he had been exposed to all the batteries of compulsory religion forty-three times. Forty-three times had the boy-choir opened on him with the theme of retribution. Forty-three times had the...
Apart, then, from these considerations, fatalism does not change our notion of what things are right and what wrong. But what it does change completely is our notion of the nature of right and wrong, of the nature of sin. We sometimes feel that we have thoughts and desires which...
Over penitent sinners like these.