Meaning of confession
Confession
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Meaning of confession :
The act of telling God or a priest our sins. The word comes from the early Church and means to give God praise. The early Christians who were persecuted were called “confessors” because they maintained their faith in God and so gave God praise, even in the midst of persecution. Over time it became connected to the sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance) and designated that time of the sacrament when one spoke out one’s sins by kind and by number so that the priest would know what type of counsel and penance to give. For many Catholics the act of confessing sins became the most important moment in Penance and so the name became synonymous with the whole sacrament of Reconciliation (people would say “I went to Confession”). In the last few decades the name has been kept for one part of that sacrament and the emphasis placed on Reconciliation (an action of God) more than confession (which focused on us).
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