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- A major paradigm shift in theology at the Second Vatican Council and in the period after the council transformed the emphases on the sacrament of penance from confession of sins (i.e., the acts of the penitent) to reconciliation with God and with the church (i.e., the overall effect or end result of the sacrament).
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Apr 30, 2021 · The council put both the priest-confessor and the person confessing under the word of God (moving the sacrament away from its previous, more legal model that relied on case studies and manuals),...
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Sep 16, 2021 · What the Pope proposes is a completely different outlook on confession, different from the experience of so many Christians and different from a certain historical legacy. First of all, the Pope indicated that within the sacrament lies "the remedy" for the moments in life when we are down.
Oct 25, 2024 · The evidence of the early Church—from both New Testament and post-apostolic sources—overwhelmingly supports the Catholic practice of Confession, then. While the sacrament developed has developed over time, the Bible indicates that Christ himself entrusted the forgiveness of sins to the Church.
Feb 23, 2023 · The sacrament of penance, also called reconciliation or confession, is the means through which God grants pardon for sins through the priest’s ministry. In the sacrament, the contrite penitent...
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The U.S. bishops’ conference voted in June 2021 to amend the Order of Penance in two ways. Those changes were then approved by the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments last year, and will enter into force on Ash Wednesday — Feb. 22. The first change is the more obvious one. The translation of the prayer of absolution, s...
The new options for the liturgy, and the new words for the prayer of absolution, take effect from Ash Wednesday of this year, Feb. 22. But the Church knows that old habits die hard, so this Lent is a kind of “breaking in” period where both the old and the new versions of the words of absolution are licit options for confessors. The new version beco...
The Code of Canon Law has 38 separate canons treating the sacrament of penance, and it defines the sacrament this way: The essential matter of the sacrament is two people: a member of “the faithful” and a “legitimate minister.” There are special provisions about confession for non-Catholics in emergencies or other special circumstances, but for the...
If the matter is what you need physically to celebrate a valid sacrament, the “form” is what you do with that matter. Apart from some veryspecial circumstances when a priest can impart general absolution to a group of people (and this is only for extreme cases), the ordinary acceptable form of the sacrament of penance is “individual and integral co...
The priest is supposed to impose “salutary and suitable penances,” depending on the sins which have been confessed. But while the penitent is obliged to fulfill the penance, absolution isn’t ever granted conditionally, and it doesn’t only kick in once you’ve done your penance — when the priest says you’re forgiven, you’re forgiven. So, if you forge...
The sacrament of confession is rooted in the mission God gave to Christ in his capacity as the Son of man on earth to go and forgive sins (see Matt. 9:6). Thus, the crowds who witnessed this new power “glorified God, who had given such authority to men” (Matt. 9:8; note the plural “men”).
Apr 9, 2015 · The manner of “going to confession” has clearly developed since Jesus uttered his instituting words on Easter Sunday night: “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”
