Difference between Penitent and Penitential

PENITENT vs PENITENTIAL: NOUN

(Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor)
One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
Eccles., one who makes confession of sin and undergoes, under priestly direction, the ecclesiastical discipline prescribed for its absolution.
One who repents, or is sorry for sin, transgression, or offending; a contrite or repentant person.
One who is penitent.

A book or set of church rules concerning the sacrament of penance.
A penitent.
In the Rom. Cath. and the Gr. Ch., a book or code of canons relating to penance and the reconciliation of penitents.
One who has undergone penitential discipline.
A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
A book or set of rules pertaining to the Christian sacrament of penance

Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; contrite.
Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.
Doing penance.

Showing or constituting penance
Of, relating to, or expressing penitence.
Of or relating to penance.
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance
Pertaining to penance or penitence
Of or relating to penitence or penance

Sorry for sin or for offense committed; contrite; troubled by a sense of guilt and resolved on amendment; repentant.
Doing penance; suffering.

Eccles., pertaining to the administration of the sacrament of penance; hence, of the nature of penance or punishment.
Of, pertaining to, proceeding from, or expressing penitence or contrition of heart: as, penitential sorrow; penitential psalms.

Forgiveness, Confessor, Absolution, Contrition, Sinner, Penance, Penitence, Repentance, Magdalen, Sorry, Rueful, Remorseful, Penitential, Contrite, Repentant

Expiatory, Offertory, Solemn, Devotional, Festal, Prayerful, Priestly, Ritualistic, Sacerdotal, Monastic, Eucharistic, Sacramental, Liturgical, Repentant, Penitent

Supplication, Atonement, Venial sin, Forgiveness, Confessor, Contrition, Sinner, Penance, Repentance, Sorry, Rueful, Remorseful, Penitential, Contrite, Repentant

Expiatory, Offertory, Solemn, Devotional, Festal, Prayerful, Priestly, Ritualistic, Sacerdotal, Monastic, Eucharistic, Sacramental, Liturgical, Repentant, Penitent

What are broken spirits and penitent hearts to them?
Saint Aralor the Penitent, Patron of Tanners and Miners.
If the penitent consents, may his confession be divulged?
Christ and the Penitent Sinners by Gerard Seghers Cir.
There is no world for the penitent and regretful.
The murmurers, being penitent; or others for fear.
Holy Spirit and the penitent soul is made.
If the penitent knowingly conceal any mortal sin, then the confession is invalid and the penitent incurs another sin: sacrilege.
Nor can a priest absolve a penitent who fully intends to continue acting against Church teaching which the penitent understands.
Apothecaries; Casamicciola, Italy; contemplative life; contemplatives; converts; druggists; glove makers; hairdressers; hairstylists; penitent sinners; penitent women; people ridiculed for their piety

She has modified her penitential demands many times throughout the centuries.
During the second and third centuries Christianity underwent a penitential crisis.
This is the penitential rite that has endured into modern times.
Penitential Act, Form BPriest: Have mercy on us, O Lord.
Please contact Bega Parish Office for Easter Penitential Rite Times.
Penitential Prayers of the Second Temple Period, in: Hieke, Th.
Notes on the seven penitential Psalms, chiefly from patristic sources.
The Origins of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism.
Petrarchism, Neoplatonism, Pleiade and penitential poetry, Neostoicism, etc.
See for example de Jong, Penitential State, pp.