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TravisandJill
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I had been under the impression that it was OK to use the Jesus prayer for an Act of Contrition. However I was recently told that this isn’t a real AOC.
What to believe?
What to believe?
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TravisandJill
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I was told by a priest at the Cathederal
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peter26
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The Act of Contrition is in any event not essential to the validity of the sacrament of confession.
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Bookcat
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Yes it is. He who told you such was just mistaken here. Or they could have meant that a fuller form in the more “formal act of contrition” would be particularly expressive.I had been under the impression that it was OK to use the Jesus prayer for an Act of Contrition. However I was recently told that this isn’t a real AOC.
What to believe?
One course would need to be contrite with the purpose of amendment with whatever one used.
One may make up even ones prayer of contrition (I do).
The Jesus Prayer however is actually listed (quoted!) in the Document from the Holy See - The Rite of Penance from the Congregation for Divine Worship – as an example of ones prayer in Confession.
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AKDee
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I think the act of contrition is supposed to have both sorrow for sin and a statement that you’re going to try not to sin any more. The Jesus Prayer has only one of those elements. I use it before confession sometimes, while I am working to awaken sorrow in my heart for my sins but I can see why a priest wouldn’t want it uses as the actual AOC because it doesn’t contain any words about amending one’s life.
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TravisandJill
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But it’s permitted so…I think the act of contrition is supposed to have both sorrow for sin and a statement that you’re going to try not to sin any more. The Jesus Prayer has only one of those elements. I use it before confession sometimes, while I am working to awaken sorrow in my heart for my sins but I can see why a priest wouldn’t want it uses as the actual AOC because it doesn’t contain any words about amending one’s life.
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Bookcat
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Again the very Rite of Penance has it as quoted example of one to use.I think the act of contrition is supposed to have both sorrow for sin and a statement that you’re going to try not to sin any more. The Jesus Prayer has only one of those elements…because it doesn’t contain any words about amending one’s life.
So yes it can be used.
One need not express all the elements in particular words.
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melekali
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Yes it is an excellent act of contrition. I use it every time.I had been under the impression that it was OK to use the Jesus prayer for an Act of Contrition. However I was recently told that this isn’t a real AOC.
What to believe?
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CB_Catholic
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This is what a priest told me in the Confessional when I used it one time. He said if I was going to use it, I needed to express my willingness to amend my life and do penance also.I think the act of contrition is supposed to have both sorrow for sin and a statement that you’re going to try not to sin any more. The Jesus Prayer has only one of those elements. I use it before confession sometimes, while I am working to awaken sorrow in my heart for my sins but I can see why a priest wouldn’t want it uses as the actual AOC because it doesn’t contain any words about amending one’s life.
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Bookcat
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You mean he asked you if this was the case?This is what a priest told me in the Confessional when I used it one time. He said if I was going to use it, I needed to express my willingness to amend my life and do penance also.
That is fine and good.
Those are part of confession - they are to be present even if not “said”.
As to the form of the Act of Contrition one may yes use the Jesus Prayer - see the very Rite given by the Church (it is one of the very examples given).
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CB_Catholic
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No he did not ask me. He told me that if I was going to use the Jesus Prayer that I had to say something to show I was willing to amend my life and do penance. Just like I wrote. IOW, he apparently did not consider the words to the Jesus Prayer alone to be sufficient. Now why he’s not following the rite, I don’t know, but I’m just giving an account of what happened.You mean he asked you if this was the case?
That is fine and good.
Those are part of confession - they are to be present even if not “said”.
As to the form of the Act of Contrition one may yes use the Jesus Prayer - see the very Rite given by the Church (it is one of the very examples given).
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Bookcat
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He prob. has not looked at it for some years…a Priest learns how to hear confession and the rite and might not look back at the rite with its suggested variations for the act of contrition and thus not remember that is there word by word.No he did not ask me. He told me that if I was going to use the Jesus Prayer that I had to say something to show I was willing to amend my life and do penance. Just like I wrote. IOW, he apparently did not consider the words to the Jesus Prayer alone to be sufficient. Now why he’s not following the rite, I don’t know, but I’m just giving an account of what happened.
And thus ask you to include expressly words to that effect.
I recall a Priest once wanted me to use that longer form in a confession - and explained how rich the expressions are etc. I did as he requested for that confession.
(PS for readers: One can even make up ones own).
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TravisandJill
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I know Once my husband went to an FSSP priest and they didn’t like the Jesus prayer either
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FrDavid96
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Here is an excerpt from an Notitiae from the Congregation for Divine Worship
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_notitiae-2015-quaderno-penitenza_en.html
The Ritual offers other prayers to the penitent for which we offer no commentary. However it is desirable that, motivated by the Jubilee Year, they become better known and used. With them we learn to pray with the very words and images of Scripture, expressing our contrition and asking for forgiveness. With them we learn that we too are caught up in the marvelous deeds of mercy that the Scripture proclaims. Like the tax collector whom Jesus praised in his parable, we too beat our breast and pray: «Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner» (RP 92 based on Lk 18: 13-14).
The reference at the end “RP 92” means “Rite of Penance Paragraph #92”
So not only is it an approved form for the Act of Contrition, but it is suggested that it be “better known and used.”
vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_notitiae-2015-quaderno-penitenza_en.html
The Ritual offers other prayers to the penitent for which we offer no commentary. However it is desirable that, motivated by the Jubilee Year, they become better known and used. With them we learn to pray with the very words and images of Scripture, expressing our contrition and asking for forgiveness. With them we learn that we too are caught up in the marvelous deeds of mercy that the Scripture proclaims. Like the tax collector whom Jesus praised in his parable, we too beat our breast and pray: «Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner» (RP 92 based on Lk 18: 13-14).
The reference at the end “RP 92” means “Rite of Penance Paragraph #92”
So not only is it an approved form for the Act of Contrition, but it is suggested that it be “better known and used.”
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