Penance
Penance is repentance of sins as well as the proper name of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, and Anglican Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation/Confession. It also plays a part in non-sacramental confession among Lutherans and other Protestants. The word penance derives from Old French and Latin paenitentia, both of which derive from the same root meaning repentance, the desire to be forgiven (in English see contrition). Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense, have come to symbolize conflicting views of the essence of repentance, arising from the controversy as to the respective merits of "faith" and "good works". Word derivations occur in many languages.
Christianity
Penance as a religious attitude
Protestant Reformers, upholding the doctrine of justification by faith, held that repentance consisted in a change of the whole moral attitude of the mind and soul (Matthew 13:15; Luke 22:32), and that the divine forgiveness preceded true repentance and confession to God without any reparation of "works". Rather, "God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance" (Romans 2:4, ESV). In his Of Justification By Faith, Calvin says: "without forgiveness no man is pleasing to God." Nonetheless, in traditions formed by a Calvinist or Zwinglian sensibility there has traditionally been a stress on reconciliation as a precondition to fellowship.
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ALBUMS
- Among the Sleepless released: 2007
- A Shapeless Beauty released: 2005
- Deserted Dreams released: 2004
- Songs of Despair released: 2002
- Reflections of Past Memories released: 2001
- Maestro Beethoven released: 2000
- Roses by Chaos Spawned released: 1999
- As Life Fades Away released: 1998
- The Beauty of Pain released: 1997
- Melancholia released: 1996
Reflections of Past Memories
Released 2001- Fragments of My Past
- The Black Lake
- A Mournful Bridge Over a River of Tears
- Into the Great Inferno
- Necropolis
- A Last Temptation
- Entering the Gate
- Into the Vast Eternity
- Necropolis (Old Monks' Saga mix)
- A Mournful Bridge Over a River of Tears (Fragments mix)
- Black is the Sun Shining (Red Moon instrumental Deconstruction)
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The Dance Of Demons
by: PenitentDeep into the Norse woods.
Gathered around the fire,
we danced in honour to death.
Alone in the darkness of night.
Dancing around the fire,
we hail the demons of death.
It`s the symphony of our destiny.
Noone trespass on our land.
Death waits for he who does.
It`s the white mans dance.
We are dancing with our demons.
The demons within our flesh.
This is the ultimate ecstasy.
Nothing to compare it with.
Latest News for: penitent
Jim Mosier: Penitence to repentance
The Argus Observer
02 Apr 2025
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