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To: annalex
Second, when, during our lifetime we go to confession and receive penance, we are not paying for that sin either. Christ alone paid for every sin. A Penance is to strengthen the penitent against future sin. For example, if a penitent went to confession, got the sin absolved and got a penancer assigned, and then did not do penance (for whatever reason), that sin that he confessed remains absolved. Why? Because Christ paid for it. It helps to know something about that which you attempt to opine.

THE WORKS OF SATISFACTION It [the council] teaches furthermore that the liberality of the divine munificence is so great that we are able through Jesus Christ to make satisfaction to God the Father not only by punishments voluntarily undertaken by ourselves to atone for sins, or by those imposed by the judgment of the priest according to the measure of our offense, but also, and this is the greatest proof of love, by the temporal afflictions imposed by God and borne patiently by us.

3,690 posted on 11/30/2010 7:58:31 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: RnMomof7; annalex; metmom; count-your-change; wmfights
punishments voluntarily undertaken by ourselves to atone for sins

Reading that part sent chills down my spine. How much like Satan is the religion that teaches this nonsense! On the one hand they say "Christ alone paid for every sin" but on the other hand they say our sufferings, whether inflicted by a priest, by God or even by our own hand, atone (pay) for our sins. What that proves to me even more is that the organization that claims the mantle of the "one, true church" is nothing but a sham operating in full cooperation with the deceiver and the father of lies. To make it even worse, as if that were possible, they convince the "faithful" that they should suffer for their sins thereby rejecting the sacrifice Christ made for them substituting their own sacrifice and, in that rejection, they not only suffer wrongly but give up any hope of eternal life with God in heaven. Trusting in our own righteousness is rejection of Christ's righteousness. How evil and sinister is the enemy of man's soul???!!!

3,776 posted on 11/30/2010 6:01:20 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: RnMomof7
Yes. We repair ourselves by voluntary penance, by penance imposed by the confessor priest, and by afflictions that happen to us in the natural course of life. Is there a question you want to ask?

Also, I believe it is a good form to give a reference to what you are quoting and spare the reader the need to google the text to find out. It is not the first time you do that. If you don't know how to make links, ask and I'll teach you, but you always can at least indicate the document and chapter.

The quote, ye Gentle Freeper, is from Trent, SESSION XIII, Ch. 9, canon 906 (Link)

4,858 posted on 12/05/2010 6:03:23 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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