Prayers for absolution in Confession

[Prester_John]

kmktexas:

Annie, this is priceless. Poor Tom probably didn’t need it but I would love to archive it for some of the Catholic bashers who visit here.

Hold on a moment! Dear brother and sister in Christ! You sure, unequivocally just what you say?Do You? Im mean it, do you?

 

[Catholic_Tom]

Thanks Alan and Pug…those last couple posts were more helpful…as for the last guy, Preston John, what are you talking about???

 

[Prester_John]

Catholic Tom:

Thanks Alan and Pug…those last couple posts were more helpful…as for the last guy, Preston John, what are you talking about???

Catholic Tom, what is wrong with Mary or Jesus being Jewish?

 

[mtr01]

Pug:

I suppose it depends on what you mean by “reparation”. If you are talking about fixing the offense you made to God for real, well, thank goodness Jesus did that, because what in the world could we offer to God that we didn’t receive, etc? Our recitation does not fix that. It can’t. Neither can doing charity or scripture reading.

However, it can partly repair us. Any prayer whatsoever addressed to God is a good thing that should bring about good effects in us for having prayed it. Praise offered to Jesus (blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus) is good for us and rectifies our minds. The prayers of others for us (pray for us sinners now) should be helpful to us.

Our saying of any penance, no matter what its content, is saying to God that we are sorry. God will not despise a humble and contrite heart Ps51. Our prayer is the expression of that. Expressions like that are healthly and restorative to us; they fix us (at least a little).

Note, the hail mary is Not part of absolution. It is the priest’s attempt at offering some healthful activity to repair you. It also applies to “temporal” punishments. (as opposed to eternal).

Yes…thanks Pug, this is exactly what I was trying to say! You just said it with a great deal more clarity than my feeble attempt.