Difference between Repentant and Penitential

REPENTANT vs PENITENTIAL: NOUN

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

Showing or constituting penance
Of or relating to penitence or penance
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, relating to, or expressing penitence.

Experiencing repentance; sorrowful for past conduct or words; sorrowful for sin.
Expressing or showing repentance.
Synonyms See repentance.

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.

Tearful, Shamefaced, Regretful, Unremorseful, Unrepentant, Magdalens, Magdalen, Ruing, Apologetic, Rueful, Penitential, Sorry, Penitent, Remorseful, Contrite

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

Sheepish, Merciful, Tearful, Shamefaced, Regretful, Unremorseful, Unrepentant, Ruing, Apologetic, Rueful, Penitential, Sorry, Penitent, Remorseful, Contrite

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

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.