In our article entitled The Collective Character - A Model of Penitence for Today's Pastoral Community In a Triodion Hymnography reflection, we focused on some groups of people as models of repentance/penitence as described in the Triodion liturgical services, especially in the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. Among the other three categories - the historical figure, known by name, the fictional character, but who has a name, and the anonymous character - the collective character offers itself to the participants in the Orthodox services as models/icons of penitence. The People of Israel, The Hypocrites, The Tax collectors, The Promiscuous, The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and The inhabitants of Nineveh are the groups we pointed out in our article. In conclusion, we emphasized the idea that one important content of the orthodox hymnography is the penitential one.
