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Sign in to savethumb|La Penitente by Pietro Rotari
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Christianity
- Penance as a religious attitude
- Penance as a sacrament or rite
- Catholicism
- A moral virtue
- Sacrament of Penance
- Assigned penance
- Penitential acts
- Salutary penance
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Lutheranism
- Reformed
- Anglicanism
- Methodism
- Penance in Indian beliefs
- Penance in art and fiction
- See also
- Further reading
- Notes
- Explanatory notes
- Citations
- External links
thumb|La Penitente by Pietro Rotari
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of contrition for sins committed, as well as an alternative name for the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “penance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.