Vocabulary
The liturgical celebration of God’s forgiveness of the sins of the penitent, who is thus reconciled with God and with the Church.
What is the Sacrament of Penance?
This is the minister of the Sacrament of Penance.
Who is the Priest or Bishop?
This 'font of morality,' refers to what it is we do in committing an act (i.e. the action itself).
What is the 'Object' or the Objective Act?
In this scene from the 'Mask of Zorro,' this would render a similar real life Confession to be invalid.
What is the lack of a Priest or Bishop?
In this/these country/countries, the Feast of Saint Joseph serves as an event similar to that of Father's Day.
What are the countries of Spain, Portugal, and Italy?
A word, deed, or intention by which man deliberately and voluntarily offends against the true order of things, as God’s loving providence has arranged them.
What is sin?
This is the matter for the Anointing of the Sick.
What is 'Oil' – duly blessed, and pressed from olives or from other plants?
This 'font of morality,' refers to why we act in committing to an action.
What is the Subjective Goal or Intention?
In this scene from 'Daredevil,' this element of his Confession would prevent the Priest from absolving Matt Murdock's sins.
What is a lack of contrition or the resolve to sin no more?
In Ireland, this Saint's feast is a Solemnity and a Holy Day of Obligation.
What is the Feast of Saint Patrick?
These are prayers offered at, or near, the hour of death which are accompanied by the sacraments of (Last) Confession, the Anointing of the Sick, and the final reception of holy Communion.
What are 'Last Rites?'
This is the form of the Sacrament of Penance.
What are the words of Absolution?
This 'font of morality,' refers to the context in which an act is performed.
What is the Situation (or the Circumstances)?
In this scene from 'True Confessions,' the penitent's Confession is considered to be either valid or invalid for this/these reason(s).
What is 'it is valid' owing to its proper form, matter, minister, and recipient?
In this country, hidden Christians practiced their faith in secret by disguising devotional objects; which, in this case, would have appeared as either traditional or Buddhist to inquisitors.
What is Japan?
The Eucharist received by a dying person. It is the spiritual food for one’s “passing over” to the Father from this world.
What is 'Viaticum?'
These are the three 'Acts of the Penitent,' which are required for validity of in receiving the sacrament.
What are the elements of contrition, the confession of sins, and satisfaction or reparation?
These are acts which are wrong in themselves, apart from the reason they are done or the circumstances surrounding them.
What are intrinsically evil acts?
In this scene from, 'Hail, Caesar!,' the penitent's Confession is considered to be either valid or invalid for this/these reason(s).
What is 'invalid,' owing to the Priest failing to pronounce the words of Absolution?
In this country (between the 16th and 19th Centuries), presumed Catholics were fined for recusing themselves from state religious services; they often resorted to harboring Priests in order to receive the Sacraments.
What is England?
This is the grave duty of keeping absolutely secret all sins that are told in sacramental confession and anything else that is told by the penitent and is related to the confession.
What is the Seal of Confession?
In the Latin Church, only these individuals are admitted as recipients to the Anointing of the Sick.
Who are those, above the ‘age of reason’ (meaning, about seven-years-old), who are in a serious condition on account of age or infirmity?
This is the moral status of an act where one of the fonts of morality is recognized as being immoral.
What does it mean for the whole act to be immoral?
In this scene from, 'Gran Torino,' this is the status of the penitent's Confession (valid or invalid), and its reason for being so.
What is 'it is valid' owing to its proper form, matter, minister, and recipient?
This continent is home to the fastest growing Catholic population in the world.
What is Africa?