In Christianity, contrition or contriteness (from Latin contritus 'ground to pieces', i.e. crushed by guilt) is repentance for sins one has committed....

An Act of Contrition is a Christian prayer genre that expresses sorrow for sins. It may be used in a liturgical service or be used privately, especially...

"Act of Contrition" is the fourth episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. President Laura Roslin visits Galactica doctor Sherman...

also played guitar on "Like a Prayer", "Keep It Together", and "Act of Contrition", though he remained uncredited. "I've worked with live musicians before...

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12th century Peter Abelard and Peter Lombard reflected the practice that contrition and confession (even to laymen or, in rare cases, a nun or beguine) assured...

Ronald Madis Ebens (born October 30, 1939) is an American convicted killer. Ebens, with his stepson Michael Nitz as an accomplice, killed Vincent Chin...

Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past or present wrongdoings, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual...

conversion to Christianity. It is roughly analogous to the Catholic Act of Contrition, though the theology behind each is markedly different, due to the intrinsically...

meditation or contemplation. The basic forms of prayer are adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication, abbreviated as A.C.T.S. The Liturgy of...

that only contrition, and not simple attrition (imperfect contrition), could save a person. The debate between the respective roles of contrition and attrition...

The Eugenics Survey of Vermont was a survey that gathered biological, familial, and social information of Vermonters in order to further eugenic policies...

teaching for Catholics on the sacrament of confession and the act of contrition for absolution was declared a mandatory catholic belief in the Council...

known as the "penitent". In confession, the penitent makes an act of contrition, as the pastor, acting in persona Christi, announces the formula of absolution...

The General Confession is a prayer of contrition in various Christian denominations, including Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Methodism, and Roman Catholicism...

allegiance but denounces his nefarious behavior. He demands Daemon's contrition and to mete out justice for allowing war atrocities; Daemon then executes...

output into three periods: the Initial Plunge, the Soused Period, and Contrition. During the Initial Plunge, P. D. Q. Bach wrote the Traumarei for unaccompanied...

the pardon, but then agreed to do so. Ford insisted on a statement of contrition, but Nixon felt he had not committed any crimes and should not have to...

this sacrament are acts both by the sinner (examination of conscience, contrition with a determination not to sin again, confession to a priest, and performance...

Sacraments... And when I repeated close to his ear the Holy Names, the Acts of Contrition, Faith, Hope and Charity, with acts of humble resignation to the Will...

Église Saint-Thomas Becket at Bénodet (Brittany), Among his obligations in contrition to Henry, William de Tracy much enlarged and re-dedicated to St Thomas...

Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed Oldman's contrition (the latter inviting him to its Museum of Tolerance to screen 2017's Darkest...

Role Notes 2005 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Esperanza Episode: "Acts of Contrition" 2006 Conviction Vida Diletez Episode: "Savasana" 2018 Shades of Blue...

those performing the indulgenced action already gain by the charity and contrition with which they do it. The abolition of the classification by years and...

York Times, October 23, 2012 Josh Gerstein, "Feds dispute CIA leaker's contrition", Politico, January 2013 Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Indicted for...

some Lutherans also teach that whoever is baptized must, through daily contrition and repentance, drown The Old Adam so that daily a new man come forth...

meaning repentance, a sincere change of heart and feeling of remorse (contrition). Penance and repentance, similar in their derivation and original sense...

in purgatory. The concept that a monetary fine or donation accompanied contrition, confession, and prayer eventually gave way to the common assumption that...

all known mortal sins not yet confessed to a priest and pray an act of contrition (a genre of prayers) which expresses both motives for sorrow and the resolve...

girl, initially resulting in debilitating remorse and then a life of contrition. The show became enormously successful and Boreanaz starred in a spin-off...