Reconciliation

Contrition, confession, penance and absolution are the four parts of what Sacrament?

• Baptism

• Confirmation

• Reconciliation

• Matrimony

special laws God gave his people

• Ten Commandments
• Sacraments

God's gift to us that allows us to make choices

• Free Will
• Commandments

A thought, word, or act that we freely choose to commit, even though we know it is wrong.

• Sin
• Contrition

Thinking and praying about whether or not our choices show love for God, ourselves, and others.

• Examination of Conscience
• Confession

A prayer or kind act we do to show God we are sorry.

• Contrition
• Confession
• Penance
• Absolution

God's forgiveness of our sins through the words and actions of the priest in the Sacrament of Penance

• Contrition
• Confession
• Penance
• Absolution

Special prayer to tell God we are sorry for the wrong choices we have made

• Our Father 
• Hail Mary
• Act of Contrition
• Gloria

When we sin, God always gives us ______.

• only one more chance

• another chance

We celebrate God's ______ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

• commandments

• forgiveness