CANONICAL PENANCE PUBLIC PENANCEAson forms or means of reconciliation with God, depending on the various periods of the church synthesizing the: CANONICAL PENANCE had as their first effect Excommunication, was an essentially juridical and public act that separated the guilty from the body of Christ; therefore, he was removed from the right to present or offer something to God at Mass, to receive the Eucharist and to be linked to the group of the faithful. it was considered that the grave sin, in addition to an offense to God, was an outrage to the community, PENITENTIARY PUBLISHES the obligatory and unique reparation for the most serious sins, is the repentance of the sins that have been committed taking into account a series of conditions for penance to have its effect, was that it went to the door of the church, but without entering into it, and dressed in such a way that he is identified as a penitent he wore a sack, on top of the habit of penitent, the color was according to the correspondence of penitent on it the scapular that is put to the people condemned by the inquisition to distinguish it.