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  1. Oct 2024
    1. hat they cut us off from the chaste embraces of that bridegroom who is the fairest in form among the sons of men (Ps 45:2), unless they are dried up by the medicine of daily repentance.

      ecclesial imagery

    1. because we promise a haven to repentance.

      quia portum paenitentiae pollicemur

    2. At this point, pagans are in the habit of making fun of Christians about the penitential discipline which has been established in the Church; and against some heresies the Catholic Church has held firmly to this truth about doing penance.

      Note this. It's a long established practiced, and the pagans mock it.

    3. s. To hear them, because at mass they were said by the celebrant alone. At other times of prayer, at home, of course, they were said by the faithful themselves. †37

      Do we know that? Source?