To aid us in our repentance, the Church provides us with the Act of Contrition. It is a pivotal and central prayer in the Church’s spiritual treasury. The prayer is known to many believers as a ...

O my God, I am heartly sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are ...

His mercy is what matters, not the degree to which the son deserves forgiveness or through his misery has earned it. Contrition takes many forms. For the Psalmist it begins when the Lord’s hand is ...

A. Contrition, or sorrow for sin, is a hatred of sin and a true grief of the soul for having offended God, with a firm purpose of sinning no more. Q. 754. Give an example of how we should hate and ...

In a sacrilegious act, thieves desecrated the Eucharist in the Holy Family parish in Titilagarh. The Bishop of Sambalpur, ...