Penitential Associations: The Origins of Civic Democracy | Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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A Brief History of the Penitents
Many groups encouraged daily mass, but the more common devotion was the divine office of matins ata church. After rising early, umiliana daced he went to hear mattins. Efact in the thirteenth century. I observed there's a growing fad of lay people attending matins which would have started about three 30 in the morning and them having to pound on the church doors to get the priest to pened them up to let them in. And she prayed by herself till dawn. On fast days she extended her prayers until non but otherwise, she took light meal at sun up and went to serve the indigent,. In the evening, she returned home for prayer and
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