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92 What do you understand by "penance?"

Such outward exercise of penitence as may satisfy the Church.

What do you understand by being " reconciled by penance?"

Reconciled to the Church by the discharge of the penalties imposed.

What is the effect of being so reconciled? That the persons are received back into the Church.

By whom are they so received?

"By a Judge that hath authority" to receive them back again.

From whence must he receive his authority?

From the bishop of the diocese.

What is the chief mark of their being received again into the Church?

They are allowed to partake of the Holy Communion.

What is the subject of the thirty-fourth Article?

"The Traditions of the Church."

What is here meant by the traditions of the Church?

Its customs of a ceremonial nature.

What does the Article declare respecting them?

That "it is not necessary that they should he in all places one, or utterly alike."