Sentences with phrase «penitential nature»

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This approach gained momentum during the early Middle Ages when penitential manuals were first written detailing the nature of specific sins and their proper penances.

Solemn and penitential in nature, it was explicitly a concession to human frailty and lacked the signs associated with sacramental marriage (in the eastern Churches, the Crowning, the singing of certain prayers, and the sharing of the Eucharist).