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Płaszczyzny kształtowania postaw pokuty i pojednania
SHAPING ATTITUDES OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION

Author(s): Andrzej Offmański
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: penance; reconciliation; the sacrament; mercy; and grace of repentance; sorrow

Summary/Abstract: Shaping the attitudes of reconciliation with God is based on faith and its maturity. The faith is the mature Christian fi nds his relationship with Christ, which is full of mercy comes in and reveals to man that God’s grace is strengthening the unity with God the Father and leads to unity merciful with each man. In instituting the sacrament of reconciliation, Christ desires this unity with God was felt by Christians as a natural state, while sin is a violation of this natural state of man. Hence the sacrament of reconciliation of the sinner with God through the grace of conversion should arouse a sense of the state of perfect contrition and repentance leading to change attitudes and spread around her acts of charity. To the renewal of experiencing health penance – reconciled should be taken post-baptismal catechumenate immersed in the evangelization of showing the person of Jesus Christ entering into force of man and worried its problems. The world will fi nd peace and human happiness only in the mercy. Keywords: penance, reconciliation, the sacrament, mercy, and grace of repentance, sorrow.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 93-110
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish