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  wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words

• Lent, the great Christian penitential season, began this week all over the world.
• To good Roman Catholics, Lent means 40 days of fast, abstinence, prayer, penitential works.
• Gibson, who insists ideology matters less to him than stories of "penitential hardship" like his Oscar-winning Braveheart, puts it more bluntly: "The fearmongering we depict in .

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• Women of Wall Plan Selichot High Holy Days Services at Kotel
  The women’s prayer group has announced that it will hold a special Selichot service at the Western Wall on Sept. 1. Selichot are the penitential prayers and liturgy recited each night starting in the Jewish month of Elul and up until the High Holy Days. Click here for the rest of the article...
  Aug. 13, 2013 - The Forward