Sentence examples similar to undertake penance from inspiring English sources
The legend of the 'aul' Kirk stane' is that a pilgrim undertaking a penance from Glasgow carried a stone in the direction of Monklands.
Why have we been waiting so long?" The Vatican ordered O'Brien to undertake an unspecified period of "prayer and penance".
Or is this the sort of job people only undertake when they feel a secret need to do penance?
He emphasized the need for penance along with the acceptance of suffering and taught that no one should undertake this pilgrimage for any but the most exalted of motives.
Much important ecclesiastical business was transacted, which resulted in a series of canons, among them one that renewed the Peace of God and another that granted a plenary indulgence (the remission of all penance for sin) to those who undertook to aid Christians in the East.
Far from being at Cheltenham or Roedean, her education was mostly undertaken at cheaper local day schools: "Bolton was a penance to artistic minds," she once recalled with a shudder.
I was raised Catholic, and while the faith itself is every bit as nonsensical as any other man-made belief system, it has some interesting features, among them a mechanism for undertaking periodic examinations of conscience (i.e., the sacrament of penance and reconciliation).
Undertaking to live as brother and sister is necessary for the divorced and civilly remarried to receive reconciliation in the Sacrament of Penance, which could then open the way to the Eucharist," the archdiocese said.
She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.... Or he was a man escaping his past.... Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?
