Confiteor
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Confiteor
1150–1200; Middle English; after first word of Latin prayer: I confess
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We have to know by heart all the prayers, the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Confiteor, the Apostles’ Creed, the Act of Contrition, the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
He made a huge sign of the cross, lowered his head and recited, again with perfect Latin diction, the Confiteor.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Confiteor, kon-fit′ē-or, n. a form of prayer or confession used in the Latin Church.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
When we kneel down to say the Confiteor, if we could imagine what I have just described to take place, how well we should say it!
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
When we say the Confiteor, and indeed any prayer, we say it in the presence of God, and of the whole court of Heaven, though we are not in Heaven and cannot see God.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead
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