Penance
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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 o
La Penitente by Pietro Rotari
A 17th-century depiction of one of the 28 articles of the Augsburg Confession by Wenceslas Hollar, which divides repentance into two parts: "One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it from terrors."
The reproach of Nathan and the penance of King David (Paris Psalter, folio 136v, 10th century).
Confession in a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 2007
Cilice
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A cilice, also known as a sackcloth, was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair worn close to the skin. It is used by members of various Christian traditions as a sel
Penance
…acts of self-discipline are fasting, sexual continence, abstaining from alcohol or tobacco, or other privations: self-flagellation and the wearing of a cilice are rarely encountered in modern times. Such acts have sometimes been called mortification of the flesh, a phrase inspired by Romans 8:13: "If you live…
A hairshirt belonging to a Christian, with rosary hanging off a belt loop used to hold the girdle that tightens the garment around the waist
Mary Magdalene in cilice. Polychrome wood carving by Pedro de Mena, Church of San Miguel and San Julian, Valladolid
Hairshirt cilice of St. Louis at St. Aspais Church, Melun, France
Ivan the Terrible's hairshirt cilice (16th century). The tsar wanted to die like a monk.