When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Penance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penance

    A 17th-century depiction of one of the 28 articles of the Augsburg Confession by Wenceslas Hollar, which divides repentance into two parts: "One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it ...

  3. Confession (religion) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_(religion)

    The Order of Worship in the Bible Presbyterian Church, for example, enjoins the following: [24] Each Sunday we have a corporate confession of sins with an announcement of assurance of pardon from sin—this is great news for all believers.

  4. Act of Contrition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Contrition

    When it arises from a love by which God is loved above all else, contrition is called 'perfect' (contrition of charity). Such contrition remits venial sins; it also obtains forgiveness of mortal sins if it includes the firm resolution to have recourse to sacramental confession as soon as possible" (CCC 1451–1452). [5]

  5. Seal of confession in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_confession_in_the...

    For example, he could choose to mention "I've heard the confession of a sex offender", or "I've almost never heard anyone explicitly confess a failure to help the poor." However, the Catholic Church punishes with excommunication latae sententiae anyone who records by any technical means or divulges what is said by the confessor or penitent. [18 ...

  6. Contrition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrition

    [10] [11] An example of this theological precept is demonstrated in the Code of Canon Law in canon 916, which states: "A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the ...

  7. Penitential - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitential

    Incipit of the Paenitentiale Vinniani. A penitential is a book or set of church rules concerning the Christian sacrament of penance, used for regular private confession with a confessor-priest, a "new manner of reconciliation with God" [1] that was promoted by Celtic monks in Ireland in the sixth century AD, under the Egyptian monastic influence of St John Cassian.

  8. Penitential Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitential_Act

    Below is an example, taken from the Lutheran Service Book, Divine Service Setting I: Pastor: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. People: But if we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Pastor: Let us then confess our sins to God our ...

  9. Mortal sin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_sin

    In this definition, a "mortal" sin was one which would prevent someone from entering heaven unless one confessed it before death. ...These categories do not exist in the Orthodox Church. Sin is sin. Concerning Confession, having a list of deadly sins could, in fact, become an obstacle to genuine repentance. For example, imagine that you commit ...