Divine Mercy For Our Times

IV. There remains to be made a brief mention of other important convictions about the sacrament of penance. First of all, it must be emph...

III. The third conviction, which is one that I wish to emphasize, concerns the realities or parts which make up the sacramental sign of forg...

Some Fundamental Convictions 31. The truths mentioned above, powerfully and clearly confirmed by the synod and contained in the propositi...

The Sacrament of Forgiveness 30. From the revelation of the value of this ministry and power to forgive sins, conferred by Christ on the ...

"Whose Sins You Shall Forgive" 29. The books of the Old and New Testament provide us with the first and fundamental fact concerni...

CHAPTER TWO THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION 28. In all its phases and at all its levels the synod considered with the great...

Nor can the church omit, without serious mutilation of her essential message, a constant catechesis on what the traditional Christian langua...

On other points too, of no less relevance for reconciliation, one looks to the pastors of the church for catechesis. On the sense of sin,...

A catechesis on penance, therefore, and one that is as complete and adequate as possible, is absolutely essential at a time like ours when d...

The pastors of the church are also expected to provide catechesis on penance. Here too the richness of the biblical message must be its sour...

Catechesis 26. In the vast area in which the church has the mission of operating through dialogue, the pastoral ministry of penance and re...

The church engages in dialogue for reconciliation also through the bishops in the competency and responsibility proper to them, either indiv...

To the extent to which the church is capable of generating active harmony-unity in variety-within herself and of offering herself as a witne...

CHAPTER ONE THE PROMOTION OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION: WAYS AND MEANS 24. In order to promote penance and reconciliation, the church ...

I do not need to repeat what I have already said about the importance of this "ministry of reconciliation,"(119) and of the pastor...

PART THREE THE PASTORAL MINISTRY OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION Promoting Penance and Reconciliation 23. To evoke conversion and penance...

The Effort of the Christian 21. But there is another aspect to the mysterium pietatis: The loving kindness of God toward the Christian mu...

It Is Christ Himself 20. It is profoundly significant that when Paul presents this mysterium pietatis he simply transcribes, without mak...

CHAPTER II "MYSTERIUM PIETATIS" 19. In order to understand sin we have had to direct our attention to its nature as made known ...

The loss of the sense of sin is thus a form or consequence of the denial of God: not only in the form of atheism but also in the form of sec...