Sacraments

Holy Penance - Absolution



	After we confess our sins to God, through the priest, we 
	receive absolution, or forgiveness from God, when the priest 
	says the following prayer: Our Lord Jesus Christ, by his 
	divine grace, as also by the gift and power vouchsafed unto 
	his holy Disciples and Apostles, that they should bind and 
	loose the sins of men: (For he said unto them: Receive ye 
	the Holy Spirit: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted; 
	and whosesoever ye shall bind or loose upon earth shall be 
	bound or loosed in heaven.) By that same power, also, 
	transmitted unto us from them, this my spiritual child N., 
	is absolved, through me, unworthy through I be, from all 
	things wherein as mortal, he hath sinned against God, 
	whether in word, or deed, or thought, and with all his 
	senses, whether voluntary or involuntary; whether with 
	knowledge or through ignorance…Amen."
	
	
	This prayer of absolution is asking God to forgive our 
	sins and bring us back into communion with Him. It is a 
	"reconciliation," just as in the story of the Prodigal 
	Son. Confession is a sacrament of forgiveness and love. 
	God forgives us our wrongs because He loves us. He wants 
	us also to forgive others who may have hurt us. In this 
	way, we can all be in communion with God and with each 
	other. We should remember God's love and forgiveness for 
	us when people ask for forgiveness from us.
	




Step by step, I am getting better and better


Guess what? You are not the worst person in the world! 
Sure, you've made some bad judgment calls, taken some 
pretty foolish chances, created some awful situations, 
but you give yourself too much credit. Others have done 
far worse. Then there are those people who haven't done 
anything to anybody - ever. They are quiet. Go unnoticed. 
They have flawless characters and records. But you know 
what? They haven't done anything for themselves either. 
They are probably just as, if not more, miserable and 
confused as you. Think about it this way: The future 
will be what you make it today. Weather you are a doer 
or a nondoer, you must work on your future. If you've 
made a mess, clean it up. If you are afraid to take a 
chance, take one anyway. If you've done things that 
didn't work, do something else. If you have done nothing, 
do something else. If you have done nothing, so something. 
What you don't do can create the same regrets as the 
mistakes you make. In the long run, either you must 
happen to life, or it will never happen for you.


Your world is as bit as you make it.




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