Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation: Flashcards
stresses the importance of acknowledging our sins while asking for God’s forgiving grace
Confession
emphasizes rather the whole process of conversion, including contrition, repentance and satisfaction, which the penitent enters into, both personally and as a member of the Church community.
Sacrament of Penance
brings out the inner relationship between being reconciled with God and being reconciled with our neighbor.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Those who approach obtain pardon from God’s mercy for offenses committed against Him, and are, at the same time, reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins and which by charity, example and prayer, labors for their conversion
the sacrament of Penance
three basic realities that were often lost in typical routine confessions:
God who in His infinite mercy grants forgiveness and reconciles us to Himself and to one another
the Church, the Christian community, as continuing Christ’s ministry of forgiveness and reconciliation;
continued personal conversion and heartfelt repentance for sins against God and neighbor,
By “going to we implicitly affirm our FAITH convictions that:
a. we are sinners;
b. we need the mercy of God our Father who sent His Son to save us and the Holy Spirit to dwell within us;
c. God’s mercy, always available to us, comes through:
* Christ, the “Primordial Sacrament” of God’s mercy;
* the Church, the “Fundamental Sacrament” of Christ;
“going to Confession,
3 Conversion and the Understanding of Sin
Notion of Sin
Christian Sense of Sin
Talking about Sin
that biblical mystery of iniquity which cost the life
Notion of Sin
Real sin
” is really a loss of the realistic awareness of the actual damage and evil caused by sin
Loss of the “sense of sin”
is the opposite of a “guilt complex.” Its source point of reference is God, not ourselves.
“Christian sense of sin
t or f
just the way we talk about sin manifests sinful attitudes.
t
a moral attitude, power, action, or refusal to act, that leads us into evil, and alienates/separates us from our true selves, our neighbors, the community, and God.
Sin
often becomes “compulsive” or “addictive,” weakening our resistance power.
Sin
Despite its often-glamorous cover, it actually injures, destroys, dishonors, poisons, and corrupts.
Sin
2 classifications of sin
personal:
social:
