Posted on 02/07/2015 10:53:13 AM PST by Salvation
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SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
The sacrament that, by means of certain acts of the penitent and by the absolution of a qualified priest, remits sins committed after baptism. As defined by the Catholic Church, it is "truly and properly a sacrament, instituted by Christ our Lord, for reconciling the faithful to God as often as they fall into sin after baptism" (Denzinger 1701). The required acts of the penitent are contrition, confession, and the willingness to make satisfaction. These acts are called the matter of the sacrament. The priest's absolution is the form.
The sacrament of penance was instituted by Christ on Easter Sunday night, when he told the Apostles, "Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained" (John 20:22-23). The Catholic Church interprets these words to imply that Christ conferred on the Apostles and their successors not merely the right to declare that a person's sins are forgiven but also the power of forgiving in Christ's name those who are judged worthy of remission and of withholding absolution for those who are not disposed to be absolved.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
This is a falsehood.
When I went to confession, my penance was was to always say x number of Our Fathers and x number of Hail Marys. Now how is praying considered a penance. I realize they were just memorized prayers and I would just rip through them as fast as I could to get up off that kneeler and go do other things.
God bless you!
Please, please keep your odd, unbiblical doctrines. Those of us who cling to Jesus, alone, who recognize that we have been chosen before the foundation of the world, who realize that it does not depend on the, “...the man who works or the man who chooses, but on God who has mercy” (Rom 9) will continue to stand because He is able to make us stand. If your organization needs props, just keep them. We pray that the scales will drop from your eyes and that God will drag you into His family...absent the “religion”.
Jesus alone?
Did you miss the Scripture?
The sacrament of penance was instituted by Christ on Easter Sunday night, when he told the Apostles, “Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained” (John 20:22-23).
You are of course very welcome!
I know
Who sins you shall forgive...they are forgiven...whose sins you hold bound...they are held bound. Kinda hard to hold someone’s sins bound if one doesn’t hear them
There is historical record of confessions of sins in front of the entire congregation...it gradually changed to private confession
If you believe that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then there is no wonder that most of the RCC is lost. The Romanist self-important, self-appointed, wrongheaded religion is straight from the gates of hell.
Word of Jesus Christ. Sorry.
Then so is this...
John 8:34 - Jesus answer them, “Truly, truly I say to you, every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.” Well, there goes confession, absolution, purgatory, and that well-used transubstantiation gimmick. Rome is stuck with the words of Jesus.
“When I went to confession, my penance was was to always say x number of Our Fathers and x number of Hail Marys. Now how is praying considered a penance. I realize they were just memorized prayers and I would just rip through them as fast as I could to get up off that kneeler and go do other things.”
Even so, the whole thing teaches a valuable lesson. (Not to mention avoiding Hell.)
“Well, there goes confession, absolution, purgatory, and that well-used transubstantiation gimmick. Rome is stuck with the words of Jesus.”
That is the prattle of a twelve-year-old.
Try reading a bit further.
8:34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
8:35. Now the servant abideth not in the house forever: but the son abideth forever.
8:36. If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
Wait just a darn minute here...we were told that the words of Jesus were to be taken literally with “Eat my body”. There was no admission of “keep reading”. The Roman cultists break their own rule and foist the error on the world. Sorry...peddle your selective hermeneutic somewhere else, we the ones who keep reading.
Among us?? Do they not read scripture?
Romans 8:11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
John 14:17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
So Catholicism changed the rules on em?? Reading your articles sounds more like mafia bribes and protection payoffs.
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