"self-awareness is the necessary ingredient for penance"
•atone, make amends/reparation/recompense/restitution, make up, redeem oneself, pay the penalty, pay, recompense, pay the price, expiate, redress, compensate
"you must do penance for the crimes in your life"
a sacrament in which a member of the Church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution.
•a religious observance or other duty required of a person by a priest as part of this sacrament to indicate repentance.
archaic
verb: penance; 3rd person present: penances; past tense: penanced; past participle: penanced; gerund or present participle: penancing
1.
impose a penance on. "the Bishop penanced him severely for his conduct"
I did wrong things in my past at times and imo payed the price for doing the wrong, as in penance......and.....now I can accept Almighty God's mercy 2019
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/'p?n?ns/
noun
noun: penance; plural noun: penances
1.
punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing.
"he had done public penance for those hasty words"
synonyms: atonement, expiation, self-punishment, self-mortification, self-abasement, reparation, amends, penalty, punishment More
"self-awareness is the necessary ingredient for penance"
•atone, make amends/reparation/recompense/restitution, make up, redeem oneself, pay the penalty, pay, recompense, pay the price, expiate, redress, compensate
"you must do penance for the crimes in your life"
a sacrament in which a member of the Church confesses sins to a priest and is given absolution.
•a religious observance or other duty required of a person by a priest as part of this sacrament to indicate repentance.
archaic
verb: penance; 3rd person present: penances; past tense: penanced; past participle: penanced; gerund or present participle: penancing
1.
impose a penance on.
"the Bishop penanced him severely for his conduct"