#penance a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
supertype: #sacrament a formal religious act conferring a specific grace on those who receive it
part: #absolution
subtype: #confession (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
subtype: #shrift the act of being shriven
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