#penance  a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
  supertype:  sacrament  a formal religious act conferring a specific grace on those who receive it
  part:  absolution
  subtype:  confession  (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
     subtype:  shrift  the act of being shriven

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