Note 81 — Part I PENANCE AS A VIRTUE AND AS A SACRAMENT

Cf. Stotz, Tribunal Pœnitentiæ, L. II. Q. III. art. 1, § 1; Lehmkuhl, l. c. n. 268: etiam in frequentioribus confessionibus expedit non omittere. Though Tappehorn in his Anleitung zur Verwaltung des heiligen Buss-Sakramentes, third edition, p. 67, suggests that when, in accordance with the permission of the Roman Ritual, the prayer is omitted, it may be said after the last confession over all those who have confessed, as at the first absolution (in confessionibus frequentioribus) the prayers Misereatur and Indulgentiam (the plural vestri, vestris, etc., being used) may be said over all who are present, we must observe that the Roman Ritual mentions nothing about this practice. Holzmann recommends that the Passio Domini nostri, etc., should be said as the penitent leaves the box.