Penance and reconciliation
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- 1491 IN BRIEF The sacrament of Penance is a whole consisting in three actions of the penitent and the priest's absolution. the penitent's acts are repentance, confession or disclosure of sins to the priest, and …
- 1492 IN BRIEF Repentance (also called contrition) must be inspired by motives that arise from faith. If repentance arises from love of charity for God, it is called "perfect" contrition; if it is founded on …
- 1493 IN BRIEF One who desires to obtain reconciliation with God and with the Church, must confess to a priest all the unconfessed grave sins he remembers after having carefully examined his conscience. the confession …
- 1494 IN BRIEF The confessor proposes the performance of certain acts of "satisfaction" or "penance" to be performed by the penitent in order to repair the harm caused by sin and to re-establish habits befitting …
- 1495 IN BRIEF Only priests who have received the faculty of absolving from the authority of the Church can forgive sins in the name of Christ.
- 1496 IN BRIEF The spiritual effects of the sacrament of Penance are: - reconciliation with God by which the penitent recovers grace; - reconciliation with the Church; - remission of the eternal punishment incurred by …
- 1497 IN BRIEF Individual and integral confession of grave sins followed by absolution remains the only ordinary means of reconciliation with God and with the Church.