religion lesson 6

• Penance


  Punishment due to sin
• Satisfaction


  Something done to make up for doing wrong or bad
• Sacrament of Penance


  1. Contrition or heartfelt sorrow

  2. Confession of all grave/mortal sins to the priest or a minister of the Church

  3. Penance/satisfaction for sins committed, by restitution and reparation of injury, and firm purpose of renewal of life
• Contrition


  Heartfelt sorrow
• Perfect contrition


  Motivated by faith and love
• Imperfect contrition (attrition)


  Motivated by fear of punishment or eternal damnation
• Absolution


  The essential act of the priest, an efficacious sign of God's pardon to the penitent
• In scriptural images, this is how the new rite sketches the sacrament: The Father receives the repentant son who comes back to Him; Christ places the lost sheep on His shoulders and brings it up to the sheepfold, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies this Temple of God again or lives more fully within it.
• This is expressed in a renewed and more fervent sharing at the Lord's table where there is great joy at the banquet of God's Church over the one who has returned from afar. (R Pen, 6d)
• “If you forgive men’s sins, they are forgiven them.” John 20:23