“If the physician [confessor] was lenient, make [additional penance] for yourself.” Latin: Si medicus clementior fuerit, tu age pro teipso. St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Translation ours—Latin quoted in “The Catholic Penny Magazine; Published Weekly, Under the Inspection of Catholic Divines”, No. 9., Vol. I, Dublin, pub. Sat. April 12, 1834, pg. 7)
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