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 ...

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 ...

Be truly sorry for your sins. The essential act of Penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to ...