1 March 2013
Do your penance and be dutiful. Unmarried, mentally retarded or even abused Do your penance and be dutiful.
An asylum created for what? A fallen woman or a victim? It didn't matter, who cared? a sin was a sin.
Long vows of silence, hours of manual labour Do your penance and be dutiful. Broken in spirit and isolated from the outside world Do your penance and be dutiful.
Families pressured by the church's archaic quarrels Sent girls away because they were considered to lack morals.
From asylum to orphanages and then to laundries Do your penance and be dutiful Sadistic, brutal and under the name of Catholicism? Do your penance and be dutiful.
*The women in the Magdalene asylums were generally termed as prostitutes; however, it should be noted that this term was used in a very loose manner encompassing not only women who sold sex for money but also single mothers, socialists, mill girls and girls dressed 'immorally'. (Sourced from the Internet)
Do Penance Or Perish • Opuss № I