My favourite remains: ‘the rigours of penitential farting’…
September 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
My favourite remains: ‘the rigours of penitential farting’…
have a happy/penitential advent folks
December 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM
have a happy/penitential advent folks
I generally don't believe in penitential politics but I may make an exception here given how massively a bunch of midwestern treatlers have fucked the world.
I think we owe it to the world at this point to endure Trump until he can sink every right-wing political movement in Latin America and Europe.
March 9, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I generally don't believe in penitential politics but I may make an exception here given how massively a bunch of midwestern treatlers have fucked the world.
The utter beauteousness that is the very small English penitential book, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 482 (eleventh century). Fits in a pocket ready to use at much-needed moments of pastoral care.
May 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
The utter beauteousness that is the very small English penitential book, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 482 (eleventh century). Fits in a pocket ready to use at much-needed moments of pastoral care.
The final form of supersessionism - Christian politicians taking sites of Jewish mass murder and appropriating them into a Christian penitential logic.
February 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The final form of supersessionism - Christian politicians taking sites of Jewish mass murder and appropriating them into a Christian penitential logic.
oh and the Penitential of Finnian (6th century AD). can't forget that one. That's the one that tells you what you gotta do if you kill your friend not out of hatred, but just because the devil made you do it.
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
oh and the Penitential of Finnian (6th century AD). can't forget that one. That's the one that tells you what you gotta do if you kill your friend not out of hatred, but just because the devil made you do it.
the Willetts: tomorrow begins our penitential season of fasting and sacrifice
the Smiths: what a fun British holiday to have pancakes for no reason
me: ✝️➕
her: 🥞🤗
I hope she is having such good pancakes today she deserves them
the Smiths: what a fun British holiday to have pancakes for no reason
me: ✝️➕
her: 🥞🤗
I hope she is having such good pancakes today she deserves them
March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
the Willetts: tomorrow begins our penitential season of fasting and sacrifice
the Smiths: what a fun British holiday to have pancakes for no reason
me: ✝️➕
her: 🥞🤗
I hope she is having such good pancakes today she deserves them
the Smiths: what a fun British holiday to have pancakes for no reason
me: ✝️➕
her: 🥞🤗
I hope she is having such good pancakes today she deserves them
Now That's What I Call Penitential
April 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Now That's What I Call Penitential
If the Catholics in Trump's administration were worth their weight in carbon they would all have resigned and begged for a penitential pilgrimage from their bishops.
May 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
If the Catholics in Trump's administration were worth their weight in carbon they would all have resigned and begged for a penitential pilgrimage from their bishops.
I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...
JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Na...
religiondispatches.org
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...
What if this is the beginning of a penitential turn, Trump the Stylite?
...one can hope.
...one can hope.
I, for one, hope he decides to conduct the rest of his presidency from the roof.
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What if this is the beginning of a penitential turn, Trump the Stylite?
...one can hope.
...one can hope.
I did not have "homicidal penitential arquebusier" on the list of phrases I was ever likely to use.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I did not have "homicidal penitential arquebusier" on the list of phrases I was ever likely to use.
Overheard on campus: "I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the State of the Union address. If I do, it will be because it's Lent and I'm trying to do more penitential practices."
February 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Overheard on campus: "I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the State of the Union address. If I do, it will be because it's Lent and I'm trying to do more penitential practices."
People are arguing about whether or not Advent is properly a penitential season, and I'm over here like "every season of the life of a Christian is a penitential season"
Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo Penitentiam agite etc. omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo Penitentiam agite etc. omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
November 30, 2024 at 9:07 PM
People are arguing about whether or not Advent is properly a penitential season, and I'm over here like "every season of the life of a Christian is a penitential season"
Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo Penitentiam agite etc. omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
Dominus et magister noster Iesus Christus dicendo Penitentiam agite etc. omnem vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit.
Today: Susan Howe, Penitential Cries (New Directions, 2025)
June 7, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Today: Susan Howe, Penitential Cries (New Directions, 2025)
This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians.
https://to.pbs.org/3MtgiTu
https://to.pbs.org/3MtgiTu
Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a period of fasting and reflection
This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians.
www.pbs.org
February 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians.
https://to.pbs.org/3MtgiTu
https://to.pbs.org/3MtgiTu
anyway I'm a big fan of retrocomputers, programming, and religious miscellanea, so I spent most of yesterday reading through the Penitential of Cummean (c.650 AD) and Paenitentiale Theodori (c.700 AD), finding weird bits (and there are a lot of weird bits), and making this Apple II shitpost
October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
anyway I'm a big fan of retrocomputers, programming, and religious miscellanea, so I spent most of yesterday reading through the Penitential of Cummean (c.650 AD) and Paenitentiale Theodori (c.700 AD), finding weird bits (and there are a lot of weird bits), and making this Apple II shitpost
Is it the queerness? the fact my character has gender dysphoria and talks openly about her body? the references to penitential practices that just RESEMBLE hardcore BDSM like flagellation? where is the line? can dark fiction exist comfortably on itch, or is it 'commonly associated' with porn now?
August 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Is it the queerness? the fact my character has gender dysphoria and talks openly about her body? the references to penitential practices that just RESEMBLE hardcore BDSM like flagellation? where is the line? can dark fiction exist comfortably on itch, or is it 'commonly associated' with porn now?
I accidentally started “is Advent a penitential season” already in my own church. (I think it is, but not in the same way as Lent)
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I accidentally started “is Advent a penitential season” already in my own church. (I think it is, but not in the same way as Lent)
to the Torah service, otherwise only done on the high holy days.
Sephardim will recite seliḥot (penitential liturgical texts, associated with the season of repentance) as part of the haqafot (the seven orbits of the hosha'not). Many will also blow shofar and repeat the thirteen attributes of mercy.
Sephardim will recite seliḥot (penitential liturgical texts, associated with the season of repentance) as part of the haqafot (the seven orbits of the hosha'not). Many will also blow shofar and repeat the thirteen attributes of mercy.
October 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
to the Torah service, otherwise only done on the high holy days.
Sephardim will recite seliḥot (penitential liturgical texts, associated with the season of repentance) as part of the haqafot (the seven orbits of the hosha'not). Many will also blow shofar and repeat the thirteen attributes of mercy.
Sephardim will recite seliḥot (penitential liturgical texts, associated with the season of repentance) as part of the haqafot (the seven orbits of the hosha'not). Many will also blow shofar and repeat the thirteen attributes of mercy.
PURPLE IS FOR LENT AND PENITENCE. ADVENT IS ONLY QUASI-PENITENTIAL
November 17, 2023 at 10:46 PM
PURPLE IS FOR LENT AND PENITENCE. ADVENT IS ONLY QUASI-PENITENTIAL
Vtuber vs. Inspiration 💜
My love of the penitential aspect of the faith as well as grimdark fantasy ultimately is what inspired the design behind my vtuber model
My love of the penitential aspect of the faith as well as grimdark fantasy ultimately is what inspired the design behind my vtuber model
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Vtuber vs. Inspiration 💜
My love of the penitential aspect of the faith as well as grimdark fantasy ultimately is what inspired the design behind my vtuber model
My love of the penitential aspect of the faith as well as grimdark fantasy ultimately is what inspired the design behind my vtuber model
I’ve just been called a thought leader and feel that I may need to perform some sort of penitential act
April 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM
I’ve just been called a thought leader and feel that I may need to perform some sort of penitential act
A mandalorian is what the priest presiding at the Eucharist wears during penitential liturgical seasons.
A grogu is the Eastern Orthodox practice of throat-singing the Sanctus
A grogu is the Eastern Orthodox practice of throat-singing the Sanctus
what is a mandalorian and what is a grogu? wrong answers only!
So tempting to use these for a game of Call My Bluff
Frank Muir: "Grogu, an adjective borrowed from Welsh, a specific hangover experienced by sailors in Nelson's Royal Navy after too much rum, or grog as it is called in the navy"
Frank Muir: "Grogu, an adjective borrowed from Welsh, a specific hangover experienced by sailors in Nelson's Royal Navy after too much rum, or grog as it is called in the navy"
May 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
A mandalorian is what the priest presiding at the Eucharist wears during penitential liturgical seasons.
A grogu is the Eastern Orthodox practice of throat-singing the Sanctus
A grogu is the Eastern Orthodox practice of throat-singing the Sanctus