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 ...

The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as ...

The 40-day season of prayer comes to an end this week just ... Penance expresses sorrow and contrition for our wrongdoing, indicates our intention to turn away from sin and turn back to God ...

Holy Week immerses us into the sacred pattern of reality itself. It mirrors our life: a journey marked by love, loss, waiting ...

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 ...

Jess Phillips is probably too busy watching the EastEnders omnibus, one imagines in a cloud of cigarette smoke. The Beeb clearly expected contrition from the leader of the Opposition; instead, it owes ...

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 ...