Status Updates From A History of the Cure of Souls

"In accord with some of the Fathers...Halitgar stresses greatly the sympathetic treatment of the penitent as fellow sinner. The ministrant must not be as one of the scribes who lay on others heavy burdens which they themselves will not touch; he must familiarize himself (particeps fuerit) with the sinner's foulness; he must humble himself and pray with moaning and tears." - pg. 128