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Lesson 12

Living the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation helps us overcome venial sins and is necessary for the forgiveness of mortal sins.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Reconciliation
    :
    (n.): The restoring of friendship; the bringing back together of what has been wrongly separated.
  • Sin of Omission
    :
    (n.): Sin resulting from a failure to act when we should have.
  • Examen
    :
    (n.): Daily exercise of reflecting on the morality of one’s conduct.
  • Perfect Contrition
    :
    (n.): Contrition arising out of love for God.
  • Imperfect Contrition
    :
    (n.): Contrition arising out of digust with sin and/or with the fear of punishment.
  • Despair
    :
    (n.): The sin of voluntarily giving up hope in our salvation from God, in help attaining it, or in the forgiveness of sins. Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, justice, and mercy and breaks the First Commandment.
  • Culpable
    :
    (adj.): Deserving of blame.
  • Indulgence
    :
    (n.): A partial or complete remission of the temporal punishment due to sins which have already been forgiven. The Church dispenses indulgences under certain conditions from the stored treasure house of satisfaction gained by Christ and the saints. The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or for those who have already died.
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