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- LESSON NINETEENTH: On Confession
- Q.776. What is Confession?
- Q.777. Who is a duly authorized priest?
- Q.778. Is it ever allowed to write our sins and read them to the priest in the confessional or give them to him to read?
- Q.779. What is to be done when persons must make their confession and cannot find a priest who understands their language?
- Q.780. What sins are we bound to confess?
- Q.781. Why is it well to confess also the venial sins we remember?
- Q.782. What should one do who has only venial sins to confess?
- Q.783. Should a person stay from confession because he thinks he has no sin to confess ?
- Q.784. Should a person go to Communion after confession even when the confessor does not bid him go?
- Q.785. Which are the chief qualities of a good Confession?
- Q.786. When is our Confession humble?
- Q.787. When is our Confession sincere?
- Q.788. Why is it wrong to accuse ourselves of sins we have not committed?
- Q.789. When is our Confession entire?
- Q.790. What do you mean by the "kinds of sin?"
- Q.791. What do we mean by "circumstances which change the nature of sins?"
- Q.792. What should we do if we cannot remember the number of our sins?
- Q.793. Is our Confession worthy if, without our fault, we forget to confess a mortal sin?
- Q.794. May a person who has forgotten to tell a mortal sin in confession go to Holy Communion before going again to confession?
- Q.795. Is it a grievous offense willfully to conceal a mortal sin in Confession?
- Q.796. How is concealing a sin telling a lie to the Holy Ghost?
- Q.797. Why is it foolish to conceal sins in confession?
- Q.798. What must he do who has willfully concealed a mortal sin in Confession?
- Q.799. Must one who has willfully concealed a mortal sin in confession do more than repeat the sins committed since his last worthy confession?
- Q.800. Why does the priest give us a penance after Confession?
- Q.801. Why should we have to satisfy for our sins if Christ has fully satisfied for them?
- Q.802. Is the slight penance the priest gives us sufficient to satisfy for all the sins confessed?
- Q.803. Does not the Sacrament of Penance remit all punishment due to sin?
- Q.804. Why does God require a temporal punishment as a satisfaction for sin?
- Q.805. Which are the chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin?
- Q.806. What fasting has the greatest merit?
- Q.807. What is Lent?
- Q.808. What do we mean by "almsgiving"?
- Q.809. What "ills of life" help to satisfy God for sin?
- Q.810. How did the Christians in the first ages of the Church do Penance?
- Q.811. What were these severe Penances of the First Ages of the Church called?
- Q.812. How can we know spiritual from corporal works of mercy?
- Q.813. Which are the chief spiritual works of mercy?
- Q.814. When are we bound to admonish the sinner?
- Q.815. Who are meant by the "ignorant" we are to instruct, and the "doubtful" we are to counsel?
- Q.816. Why are we advised to bear wrong patiently and to forgive all injuries?
- Q.817. If, then, it be a Christian virtue to forgive all injuries, why do Christians establish courts and prisons to punish wrongdoers?
- Q.818. Why is it a work of mercy to pray for the living and the dead?
- Q.819. Which are the chief corporal works of mercy?
- Q.820. How may we briefly state the corporal works of mercy?
- Q.821. How are Christians aided in the performance of works of mercy?
- Q.822. Who are religious?
- Q.823. Are there any religious communities of priests?
- Q.824. Why are there so many different religious communities?