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Updated: June 5, 2025
The order of the world is overthrown by the iniquities of men; it is we who have provoked the exercise of the divine justice, and called down the tokens of his vengeance. The misery and disaster that surround us like a cloak are the penalty of our crimes and the price of our expiation. As the divine St. Thomas has said: Deus est auctor mali quod est poena, non autem mali quod est culpa.
All day you have made me tear the shoulders of my friends with cow-hide, and now we are to begin again. Do not let us do it, Henri, when there's but two, every blow tells." "Hold your tongue, miserable chatterer, and think of repentance." "I repent! And of what? Of being jester to a monk. Confiteor I repent, mea culpa, it is a great sin." "No sacrilege, wretch." "Ah!
MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education. They sat thus night after night recalling that fatal Friday, till every detail of it was stamped on their brains and came through on the other side like the faces on a bad coinage. "If only I had not accepted that invitation to dine at 27," Mrs. Darling said. "If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana's bowl," said Mr. Darling.
They wrapped her softly in the blankets, and without a word spoken, lowered the still, lissom body into its rude grave. The awful silence was only broken by the spasmodic sobs of Bigot as he leaned over the grave to look his last upon the form of the fair girl whom he had betrayed and brought to this untimely end. "Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!" said he, beating his breast.
Versicles and responses are hurried over and run one into another. The words, half pronounced, without opening the mouth, which would take up too much time, terminate in unmeaning murmurs. “Oremus ps ... ps ... ps....” “Mea culpa ... pa ... pa....” Like vintagers in a hurry pressing grapes in the vat, these two paddle in the mass Latin, sending splashes in every direction.
For sin is simply the following out of the instincts and desires of the animal, when these are felt to be in opposition to the dictates of the peculiarly human, the moral nature. Men have said that the only Fall of Man was a fall upwards. They have given an entirely new meaning to the medieval description of the first transgression as the "felix culpa."
"To see a librarian begin his career with a blot of ink. For you can not deny that Fabien's marriage and situation, and my return to the capital, are all due to that. It must have been sympathetic ink eh?" "'Felix culpa', as you say, Monsieur Mouillard. There are some blunders that are lucky; but you can't tell which they are, and that's never any excuse for committing them."
She was beating her breast, and rocking herself to and fro, uttering her incessant "Mea culpa!" "Tell me more," she said again, presently; "show me more dreadful sights, that I may suffer more. I yearn for it; it will do my soul good it is like purgatory. Go on!" I took good care not to feed this religious frenzy further.
The consequences of your mistake have proved drastic and far-reaching. The least of these consequences is that it has cost me the Emperorship." "Oh," moaned the good man, "mea culpa, mea culpa! No penance put upon me can compensate for that disaster." "You blame yourself overmuch, good Father. The penance I have to impose will leave me deeply in your debt.
'And I can give it to you as the priest does in the morneen at the mass, "In nomine Patris, et Filio et Spiritu Sancti!" again crossing himself. 'And I have been at confesheen, and said this, striking his breast, "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa."
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