“In one story, a young man wanders the streets penitentially tied to his girlfriend who he drove to madness and attempted suicide by briefly deserting her for a richer woman.”
“This only happens when we come penitently to embrace Jesus Christ as our only hope.”
“Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes.”
“The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.”