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safeguarding: 395
Sunday and: 368
threats to: 398
see also Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Penance and Reconciliation, Sacrament
of:
xii, 168, 233-47,
523
absolution: 240
acts of Christ: 237
Acts of the penitent
confession: 236, 238-39
accepting responsibility for
sins and honestly facing our
failings: 238
individual confession and
communal celebration: 238
required, of all mortal sins:
238, 245
of venial sins: 238, 242, 245
contrition: 237-38, 247,
508
the Holy Spirit moves us to:
238
perfect and imperfect: 237-38,
245,
508
sorrow for our sins: 237,
245, 247
examination of conscience: 238,
241, 245
satisfaction: 240
given by the priest: 240
to remedy the disorders sin has
caused: 240
age for confessing sins: 238
and Baptism: 236, 245
Christ forgiving sins in the Gospels:
235-36
conversion from sin: 236-37, 239,
241-42
effects of the Sacrament
anticipating our judgment before
God: 241
pardon for our offenses:
239-40, 242
reconciling with God: 235-36,
238-39, 242-45
reconciling with the Church:
236, 242-45
recovering grace: 242-43, 245
regular confession aids in the
spiritual progress in the life of
the Spirit: 242
as encounter with Christ’s mercy
and forgiveness: 234, 243
the Eucharist and the forgiveness of
sins: 231
general absolution: 238-39
God alone can forgive sins: 83,
236, 251
intention to avoid future sin
required: 237-38
Jesus willed that the Church should
be his instrument of forgiveness
on earth: 236
Lent:
518
necessity of the Sacrament: 236,
238, 245
obligation to confess mortal
sins: 245
ordinary means for the forgiveness
of sins after Baptism: 243
power to forgive sins imparted to
the Apostles by the Risen Christ
on Easter: 236, 244-45
preparation for the Sacrament: 241
priest acts in the person of
Christ: 236
receiving absolution in the
Sacrament before receiving
Eucharistic Communion: 231
rites of Reconciliation: 238-39
seal of Confession: 241
Pentateuch:
24
Pentecost:
467,
523
celebrating the day of: 107-8
perpetuation of the grace of
Pentecost in the Sacrament of
Confirmation: 203-4
revelation of the Church at:
112, 115
revelation of the Trinity at: 112-13
sending of the Holy Spirit to the
Apostles: 52, 62, 103, 105, 109,
203, 210
transformative power of the Holy
Spirit: 103, 114