Penance and Reconciliation: the Sacrament through which sins committed after Baptism can be forgiven and reconciliation with God and community effected (CCC, 1422, 1425, 1428, 1446).
- 1. Understanding the Sacrament
- 2. Celebration
- 3. Essential elements
- 4. Effects
- 5. Requirements for reception
- 6. Minister of the Sacrament (CCC, 1461-1466)
- a. the seal of Confession (CCC, 1467)
- 7. Implications: (CCC 1468-1670)
- 8. Appropriating and living this Sacrament (CCC, 1451, 1468-1469, 1470)
- a. Prayer of thanksgiving for the gift of God’s forgiveness of sins
- b. Reflective prayer on contrition in its fullest sense: sorrow for our sins with the resolution to avoid future sin (CCC, 1452)