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Holy Mystery of Repenance

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In the Holy Mystery of Repentance, Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ forgives our sins.

Repenance is the Holy Mystery which gives us access to Holy God's forgiveness, to spiritual healing, and to reconciliation. We ask forgiveness of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ. The Priest gives us a special blessing called absolution as a sign of our reconciliation with Holy God.

Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ wants us to ask for forgiveness after we have sinned.

Procedure

A person confesses to Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ through the medium of the Catholic Church. Usually, the person faces the ikon of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ and talks to Him. This action is to remind us by whose power our sins are forgiven. However,Repenance may bein any secluded part of the church.

The priest, as the earthly representative of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, stands at the right of the person and transmits Holy God's forgiveness via absolution. At the time of absolution the priest places the two ends of his stole, the sign of Holy God the Son within the Holy Trinity / Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ 's priesthood, on the penitent's head and recites the prayer of absolution.

The necessary conditions are: confession, the laying on of the Priest’s hands, and the prayer of absolution.

Requirements and Conditions

Holy Mystery of Repentance is received after the person:

• Recieves the Holy Mysteries of Christian Illumination
• Reaches the age of reason

The Holy Mystery of Repentance is administered by a priest.

Holy Mystery of Repentance should be received often during all liturigcal cycles. Holy Mystery of Repentance should especially be recieved during Great Lent.

Holy Mystery of Repentance is part of the Service of Forgiveness during Matins of Great and Holy Thursday, which is celebrated on Great and Holy Wednesday evening.

Name

This Holy Mystery is sometimes called "Confession" or "Reconciliation".

Bishop John Elya's Answers

What is the proper form of confession in the Melkite Church?
The Bishop Answers Eparchy of Newton, (Our Lady of the Annunciation (Al Bisharah) in Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States) Click on Questions related to worship and ritual W2

More Information

Confession (Reconciliation) St. Ann Melkite Catholic Church, West Paterson, NJ

Holy Mysteries Our Lady of Redemption, Warren, Michigan

Primer for Melkite Worship and Ritual Please click on Confession. Melkite Greek Catholic Church Eparchy of Newton, Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States. Material prepared by Fr. Philaret Littlefield for inclusion in the St. George (Milwaukee, WI) Melkite Sunday Bulletin.

Saint Ignatios of Antioch Melkite Greek Catholic Church Then click on Resources. The first category is Lenten Information which includes Repenance.

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Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center is dedicated to my cousins: Bucky (Richard C. Liles) and Shirley (Shirley Jean Liles Buck). Bucky fell asleep in the Lord on Dec. 12, 2000 and Shirley fell asleep in the Lord on Nov. 8, 2001.
O God of all spirits and of all flesh, who have destroyed death, overcome the devil, and given life to the world: grant, O Lord, to the souls of your servants Bucky and Shirley, who has departed from this life, that it may rest in a place of light, in a place of happiness, in a place of peace, where there is no pain, no grief, no sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, forgive him/her every sin he/she has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin : You alone are without sin, your righteousness is everlasting, and your word is true. You are the Resurrection and the Life, and the repose of your departed servants Bucky and Shirley. O Christ our God, and we send up glory to You, together with your eternal Father and your all-holy, good and life-givng Spirit, now and always and for ages upon ages. Amen.

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