RS W6 Reconciliation Flashcards
Stressing the importance of admitting one’s own fault.
Confession
Requires humility and courage
Confession
Stresses the importance of acknowledging our sins while asking for God’s forgiving grace.
Confession
Focuses on the process of conversion
Penance
Goal does not end in asking for forgiveness but the change in person’s character.
Penance
Emphasizes the whole process of conversion, including contrition, repentance, and satisfaction.
Penance
Emphasizing the relationship.
Reconciliation
brings out the inner relationship between being reconciled with God and being reconciled with our neighbor.
Reconciliation
What is the purpose of reconciliation
To obtain forgiveness from God and the Church.
What are the three important realities
God’s forgiveness, Church as continuing the ministry of forgiveness, and Conversion and penance
From self-centered pursuit of satisfying our own egotistical needs, and toward loving service.
Moral
Involves our feelings, emotions, and imagination needed to support an outgoing love that overcomes the temptations to prejudices, exaggerated amor propio, oversensitivity, hatred, and pride.
Affective
A “falling in love with God. This happens through God’s grace, when we freely respond to the Father’s Self-giving through Jesus Christ His Son, in their Holy Spirit of underlying LOVE”
Religious
A shift in the ways we understand and judge the basic meaning and value of our lives.
Intellectual
Doing what is bad causing harm to others.
Sin of Commission (sin by committing)
Not doing the right thing given the situation; takes the form of indifference.
Sin of omission (sin by omission)
Matter of Reconciliation/Confession/Penance
Sins confessed
Form of Reconciliation/Confession/Penance
“By the ministry of the Church, may God grant you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.“
