Such was the character of the threat to the social fabric of absolution by the confessors.
Far from providing options of choice throughout the summer, the decisions concerning confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.
Marginal rubrics identify these chants as being for confessors.
His office does not seem to have been simply taken over in toto from the common of confessors.
Approximately one-third of its chants borrow from the venerable offices of major temporal feasts, as well as the common of confessor bishops.
Breviaries frequently furnished only the collect, and the celebrants were directed to the common of confessors.
We should notice that he conflates what doctrines do with what their confessors believe or intend that they do.
Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.
