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The Catholic Church believes in God's grace of forgiveness of sin [57] and in the necessity of contrition (repentance) for said forgiveness. [58] God commands people to pray for forgiveness ("And forgive us our trespasses") because he wants to forgive sin, and for the same reason he grants the graces of contrition and prayer. [59]
The disciples' power to forgive sins is linked to the gift of the Spirit in John 20:22, and not in human power. [3] The verbs for forgiving and retaining are in the passive form, indicating that God is the one in action. [3]
God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins. Through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace. And I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. [40]
Jul. 13—The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 emphasizes God's daily provision of the necessities of life and the expectation for his people to be forgiving. That's according to Ministers Gian ...
A 17th-century depiction of one of the 28 articles of the Augsburg Confession by Wenceslas Hollar, which divides repentance into two parts: "One is contrition, that is, terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts the conscience, and delivers it ...
The Catholic Church teaches both that only God forgives sin and that Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, willed his ministry of forgiveness of sins to continue through the ministry of his Church. "In imparting to his apostles his own power to forgive sins the Lord also gives them the authority to reconcile sinners with the Church." [4]
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