Sacrament Basics
This sacrament restores our relationship with God after sin.
The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
This type of sin weakens a person’s relationship with God.
Venial sin
In the early Church, people who committed serious sins entered this group.
Order of Penitents
This is the official public worship of the Church.
Liturgy
This is the prayer by which the priest forgives sins in the name of the Trinity.
Absolution
These are visible and effective signs of God’s grace, instituted by Christ.
Sacraments
This type of sin destroys or kills a person’s relationship with God
Mortal sin
Early penitents often performed this for years before being fully reconciled.
Rigorous penance
This term means all unordained members of the Church who have been initiated through Baptism.
Laity
This is the secrecy priests must keep about sins confessed to them.
Sacramental seal
This sacrament renews our baptismal promise and restores communion with God.
Penance/Reconciliation
This is heartfelt sorrow for sin with the intention of sinning no more.
Contrition
These missionaries helped develop the practice of private confession in the seventh century.
Irish missionaries
This doctrine teaches that Jesus Christ is both fully human and fully divine.
Hypostatic union
This is the remission of temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven.
Indulgence
This is the “only ordinary way” to be reconciled with God after mortal sin.
Private individual confession
This type of contrition comes from love of God and desire for relationship with him.
Perfect contrition
This pope promoted frequent Communion for laypeople in the early twentieth century.
Pope Pius X
This is the unity in Christ of the Church on earth, in heaven, and in Purgatory.
Communion of Saints
This type of indulgence removes all temporal punishment due to forgiven sin.
Plenary indulgence
Jesus gave the Apostles authority to forgive sins when he said, “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them.” What is the name of the passage?
John 20:22–23
This type of contrition comes from fear of punishment or recognition of sin’s ugliness.
Imperfect contrition
This Church council emphasized Penance as part of an ongoing covenant of love and friendship with God.
Second Vatican Council
This term means the distribution of the fruits of Christ’s Paschal Mystery through sacramental liturgy.
Sacramental economy
This Church penalty is meant to shock a sinner into repentance and conversion.
Excommunication