God the Father, knowing his children will still be prone to reject him, also sent the Son to give us the Holy Spirit through the sacrament of reconciliation. To give a proper perspective on the ...
The priest must and does refuse absolution to a penitent when he thinks the penitent is not rightly disposed for the Sacrament. He sometimes postpones the absolution till the next confession ...
Through confession and absolution we are counting ourselves dead to sin but alive to God ... It is Christ alone who can make us complete. Through the sacrament of Communion we are counting ourselves ...