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The Importance Of The Sacrament Of Penance In The Church

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The world comprises of approximately 6.7 billion Catholics and with this increasingly growing religion, it will only get larger in number (Dubinsky, 2002). To be a Catholic means to have complete faith in God and his divine grace. Having God 's divine grace means to obey it and keep it holy as it was created by God and given to his disciples. The Catholic religion is based on these principles and his followers take it very seriously.
Catholics are a Christian sect and believe in one God. Like other Christians, they believe that Jesus is God 's Son which goes hand-in-hand with the belief in the Holy Trinity. God the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit are what makes up the Holy Trinity. The Catholics basic beliefs are the bible; which was created by God and is the path to follow. The Ten Commandments are what the Catholics live by for moral and ethnic reasoning (Elston, 2010).
Sacrament of Penance is the method of the Church by which an individual man or women may want to confess sins committed after baptism and have them absolved by a priest. Although it is not mandatory, the Catholic rite is usually conducted within a confessional box, booth or a reconciliation room. The sacrament is known by various names, including penance, reconciliation and confession. Whilst the official Church publications always refer to the sacrament as “Penance” or “Reconciliation”, many people tend to still use the term “Confession” in reference to the Sacrament (Wetterstrom, 2001). For the

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