you feel shame now, here before me alone, a miserable man, than hereafter before God at the
great judgment, there where the hosts of heaven, earth, and hell will all be gathered
together."
S31.10.01 "May our Lord protect us there."
S32.01.01
It is fitting for each priest when he assign a fast to
someone that he know whether the person be well or unwell, wealthy or needy, how young he
may be or how
old, whether he may be in orders or a layman and what remorse he might have, and whether he
may be a single man or a married man.
S32.02.01 Discretion among all men is needful, even though they
might commit similar sins.
S32.03.01 One must judge powerful people more strongly than the
poor, according to the ordinance of the canon.
S33.01.01 Theodore, the holy and good bishop, appointed this rule as
precept and as teaching for each of those who wishes to make amends for his sins against God,
and he said thus:
S33.02.01 "We have read in the penitential that one must do
penance
for capital sins for one year or two or three on bread and water, and for lesser sins a week or a
month, entirely the same."
S33.03.01 But for some people this is a very arduous and irksome
thing. Therefore, we wish to prescribe with which things it may be discharged for him who cannot
keep this fast.
S33.03.02 That is, that he must do penance with singing the psalms
and almsgiving for a very long period of
time.
S33.03.03 And he who is able to fulfill all that which is declared in
the book, that is very good and it is the correct procedure;
S33.04.01 and he who is not able (to do so), let him sing fifty psalms
in the right order in church or in some private place.
S33.04.02 And he who must (fast) one week on bread and water, let
him sing 300 psalms kneeling or 320 without genuflecting just as it is said above.
S33.05.01 And he who must do penance for the period
|
|
|
