The document discusses different forms of penance in Christianity. It outlines three main forms mentioned in Scripture: fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. These express penance in relation to oneself, God, and others. It also mentions other means of obtaining forgiveness like reconciliation, tears of repentance, charity. Penance is accomplished through daily gestures like reconciliation, helping the poor, accepting suffering, and following Jesus. The Eucharist and liturgical seasons are important for penance and conversion. The purpose of penance is conversion to Christ through overcoming sin and growing in holiness, as Christians still struggle with human frailty and sin despite initiation.
in Roman Catholic Church- Reconciliation Jude Deluxion
I have given in this ppt very important points on the sacraments of reconciliation, since it is related the catholic church i have given points from official documents
in Roman Catholic Church- Reconciliation Jude Deluxion
I have given in this ppt very important points on the sacraments of reconciliation, since it is related the catholic church i have given points from official documents
I. Introduction:
There are many sacraments of forgiveness and reconciliation in the history of Catholicism.:
• Baptism: forgiveness of sins on the past and reconciled with God.
• Impose the hand of Bishop on heretics and schismatics who renounced
• Eucharistic liturgy was the sign of reunion with Christ despite their sinfulness- unite with other in faith and forgiveness.
o the bread and wine were often seen as a sin offering.
• Middle Ages: devout participation in sacrifice as a purification from personal sinfulness.
• anointing of the sick as an occasion of spiritual healing than physical
• indulgences as cancel the divine punishment
• throughout the history: prayer, reading of scripture, fasting and physical self- discipline, almsgiving and other charity work are as the sacramental actions.
All of these, there is one stood out. It combined an admission of guilt: interior and exterior acts and assurance of divine forgiveness.
o In modern church it was administered privately by a priest and received by Catholic perhaps one a year.
o In patristic period it was public presided over by bishop and for the notorious sinners and one in lifetime.
o In medieval ages the assurance can be given by a lay afterward by the clergy alone.
The works of repentance
o Presence time was the brief prayer
o ancient time were usually lengthy acts of mortification.
There are two elements that always found that were the confession or repentance and forgiveness.
Repentance In Christian Conversion
Repentance is an act by which we realise we have offended an Holy and righteous God; this act is characterised by a deliberate turn away from the sinful act(s) in question, begging for God’s forgiveness and turning to him and his ways. Repentance is also that window that opens for us to see what we are called to; this being that, we are to represent God’s living and working in human life; how the effects of sin’s offensive attack on God defeats this purpose and how it can be remedied by means of the lordship of God’s Spirit over man’s spirit, soul and body.
What is "true repentance?" Repentance is something Every Sinner Must Do - (Lk 13:3,5; Acts 17:30) - Repentance is something God wants & desires every sinner to do - (Rom 2:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9). - This lesson examines the nature & attitude of true repentance from Psalm 51:1-17. (MP3 / KEYNOTE / PPT / PDF / VIDEO . . .
http://w65stchurchofchrist.org/coc/
I. Introduction:
There are many sacraments of forgiveness and reconciliation in the history of Catholicism.:
• Baptism: forgiveness of sins on the past and reconciled with God.
• Impose the hand of Bishop on heretics and schismatics who renounced
• Eucharistic liturgy was the sign of reunion with Christ despite their sinfulness- unite with other in faith and forgiveness.
o the bread and wine were often seen as a sin offering.
• Middle Ages: devout participation in sacrifice as a purification from personal sinfulness.
• anointing of the sick as an occasion of spiritual healing than physical
• indulgences as cancel the divine punishment
• throughout the history: prayer, reading of scripture, fasting and physical self- discipline, almsgiving and other charity work are as the sacramental actions.
All of these, there is one stood out. It combined an admission of guilt: interior and exterior acts and assurance of divine forgiveness.
o In modern church it was administered privately by a priest and received by Catholic perhaps one a year.
o In patristic period it was public presided over by bishop and for the notorious sinners and one in lifetime.
o In medieval ages the assurance can be given by a lay afterward by the clergy alone.
The works of repentance
o Presence time was the brief prayer
o ancient time were usually lengthy acts of mortification.
There are two elements that always found that were the confession or repentance and forgiveness.
Repentance In Christian Conversion
Repentance is an act by which we realise we have offended an Holy and righteous God; this act is characterised by a deliberate turn away from the sinful act(s) in question, begging for God’s forgiveness and turning to him and his ways. Repentance is also that window that opens for us to see what we are called to; this being that, we are to represent God’s living and working in human life; how the effects of sin’s offensive attack on God defeats this purpose and how it can be remedied by means of the lordship of God’s Spirit over man’s spirit, soul and body.
What is "true repentance?" Repentance is something Every Sinner Must Do - (Lk 13:3,5; Acts 17:30) - Repentance is something God wants & desires every sinner to do - (Rom 2:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9). - This lesson examines the nature & attitude of true repentance from Psalm 51:1-17. (MP3 / KEYNOTE / PPT / PDF / VIDEO . . .
http://w65stchurchofchrist.org/coc/
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2. The interior penance of the
Christian can be expressed in
many and various ways.
Scripture and the Fathers insist
above
all
on
three
forms, fasting, prayer, and alms
giving,
which
express
conversion in relation to
oneself, to God, and to others.
3.
Alongside
the
radical
purification brought about by
Baptism or martyrdom they cite as
means of obtaining forgiveness of
sins: effort at reconciliation with
one's neighbor, tears of repentance,
concern for the salvation of one's
neighbor, the intercession of the
saints, and the practice of charity
"which covers a multitude of sins."
4.
Conversion is accomplished in daily
life
by
gestures
of
reconciliation, concern for the poor, the
exercise and defense of justice and
right, by the admission of faults to one's
brethren, fraternal correction, revision
of
life,
examination
of
conscience,
spiritual
direction,
acceptance
of
suffering, endurance of persecution for
the sake of righteousness. Taking up
one's cross each day and following Jesus
is the surest way of penance.
5.
Eucharist and Penance. Daily
conversion and penance find their
source and nourishment in the
Eucharist, for in it is made present
the sacrifice of Christ which has
reconciled us with God. Through
the Eucharist those who live from
the life of Christ are fed and
strengthened. "It is a remedy to free
us from our daily faults and to
preserve us from mortal sins."
6. Reading
Sacred
Scripture, praying the Liturgy
of the Hours and the Our
Father - every sincere act of
worship or devotion revives the
spirit of conversion and
repentance within us and
contributes to the forgiveness of
our sins.
7.
The seasons and days of penance in
the course of the liturgical year
(Lent, and each Friday in memory of
the death of the Lord) are intense
moments of the Church's penitential
practice. These times are particularly
appropriate
for
spiritual
exercises,
penitential
liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of
penance, voluntary self-denial such as
fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal
sharing (charitable and missionary
9.
"You were washed, you were sanctified,
you were justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our
God." One must appreciate the magnitude of
the gift God has given us in the sacraments of
Christian initiation in order to grasp the
degree to which sin is excluded for him who
has "put on Christ.“ But the apostle John also
says: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us." And the
Lord himself taught us to pray: "Forgive us
our trespasses," linking our forgiveness of one
another's offenses to the forgiveness of our
sins that God will grant us.
10.
Conversion to Christ, the new birth of Baptism,
the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Body and Blood of
Christ received as food have made us "holy and
without blemish," just as the Church herself, the
Bride of Christ, is "holy and without
blemish." Nevertheless the new life received in
Christian initiation has not abolished the frailty and
weakness of human nature, nor the inclination to sin
that tradition calls concupiscence, which remains in
the baptized such that with the help of the grace of
Christ they may prove themselves in the struggle of
Christian
life.
This
is
the
struggle
of conversion directed toward holiness and eternal life
to which the Lord never ceases to call us.