[CyberAnt]

Wow! I can’t believe you have so completey misinterpreted what I said.

[Salvation]

So are you saying that you have never asked forgiveness of God?

The thing that Catholics have is the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We are forgiven by God when we confess our sins. God then forgets them and they will not be brought up again — unlelss we do it to ourselves and do not trust in the Lord’s forgiveness.

BTW, it is not the priest that forgives the sins in the prayer of absolution — it IS God!

[Salvation]

 

1449 The formula of absolution used in the Latin Church expresses the essential elements of this sacrament: the Father of mercies is the source of all forgiveness. He effects the reconciliation of sinners through the Passover of his Son and the gift of his Spirit, through the prayer and ministry of the Church:

God, the Father of mercies,
through the death and the resurrection of his Son
has reconciled the world to himself
and sent the Holy Spirit among us
for the forgiveness of sins;
through the ministry of the Church
may God give you pardon and peace,
and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.