A Topic of Moral Theology
The Reception of the Sacrament of Penance
What the penitent must bring to the sacrament, and what it remits.
The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
going to confession · how to go to confession · receiving the sacrament of penance (ed.)
In the index as Penance as sacrament · Sacrament of Penance · Penitent · Disposition · Penance as a sacrament · Power of remitting sins · A confessor admitting to first Communion · Confession · Moral works · Revival of merits · Rite of the one administering and of the one receiving the sacraments · Satisfaction (penance) · Subject · Subject of the sacraments, validly receiving · Time of Baptism · Unformed Sacrament of Penance · Whether sin prevents the reciting of Canonical Hours
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, Book Fifth. On Penance., Chapter First. On Penance …, Question First. On the nat…, Article Second. On the sacrament of penance., nn. 218, 219, 220, 221, 222 & 223 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Bk. III, Tr. V, Diss. II, Part III. On the Reception of the Sacrament of Penance, n. 479 — Since the acts of the penitent, placed in order to the reception of the sacrament of Penance, constitute its proximate matter, those things which regard the reception of the sacrament are already comprehended in what has… Read in context →
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise On the Sacrament …, Part II. On the Subject of the Sacrament of Penance, n. ¶1 — Or on the Acts of the Penitent. Three are numbered, namely: 1. contrition; 2. confession; 3. satisfaction.Read in context →
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Penance (Volume I), Dogmatic Part — Chapter III: On the Sacrament of Penance Itself, nn. 157, 158, 159, 160 & 161 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Penance (Volume I), Moral Part — Chapter I: On the Duties of the Penitent, nn. 221, 222 & 223 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. III, Bk. II, Tr. V, Chapter I: On the Licit and Necessary Use of the Sacrament, nn. 562, 563, 564, 565 & 566 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. V, Chapter II. On the Subject of the Sacrament of Penance, n. ¶46 — Preliminary note. After in the preceding chapter we treated of the essence both of the virtue and of the sacrament of penance, now the duties which the penitent must perform in receiving the sacrament of penance are to b… Read in context →
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. II, Part Third: On the Sacrame…, Tr. V, Dissertation II: On The Subject Of The Sacrament Of Penance, n. ¶1664 — 1664. That every and only baptized man, fallen into at least venial fault, is the SUBJECT of the Sacrament of Penance, is already sufficiently known from the things disputed above. But this is proper and peculiar to this… Read in context →
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. II, TREATISE ON THE SACRAMENT …, PART SECOND: ON THE SUBJEC…, OR ON THE ACTS OF THE PENITENT, n. ¶1 — Three are numbered, namely 1° Contrition; 2° Confession; 3° Satisfaction.Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Penance, Fifth Part: On the Subject of Penance, n. 647 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Penance, Fifth Part: On the Subject…, Question One: On the Requisites for the Capacity of Valid Reception, n. 648 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On Penance, Fifth Part: On the Subject…, Question Two: On the Requisites for the Disposition of Fruitful Reception, n. 656 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. II, Tr. XV, Part II. On the Subject of the Sacrament of Penance, n. ¶1 — The subject, in the sacrament of Penance, is essential, not only because some wayfaring man is required who receives the sanctifying rite, as in Baptism, for example, or in Confirmation, but also for another reason, inso… Read in context →
The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Case LXVIII: Children’s Confessions, nn. ¶1–¶19 (19 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Penance and Confession — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Koch–Preuss · Concina, Compendium · Slater, Cases II · The Roman Catechism · Spirago · Deshon, Guide · 1917 Code of Canon Law · Decretum of Gratian and 1 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)