4 Steps of Reconciliation

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: Before you can be forgiven, you have to be truly sorry.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: The gift of absolution is a blessing of peace.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: We can do this because we believe in God’s mercy.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: We may be asked to pray, to do something good for others, or to make a sacrifice of some kind.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: absolution, having our sins forgiven. God forgives us through the words of the priest.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: You express your sorrow in an Act of Contrition.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: You can’t just be sorry in general. You have to say what you are sorry for.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: In Penance, as in Baptism, you get to wipe the slate clean and start over again.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: The more serious the sin, the more serious the penance.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven

What step of Reconciliation includes the following: We confess all the grave sins we can remember since our last confession. We are also encouraged to confess venial sins.

• Step 1: Being Sorry

• Step 2: Confessing Sin

• Step 3: Working to Repair the Damage

• Step 4:
  Being Forgiven