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Speaker 0 00:00 Haagen personnel much, but certainly not all of what we'll cover today has been addressed elsewhere. As always, said, cut, paste, and edit the quotes from sermon. Please do not chew gum in church. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good in the name of the father and the son, the Holy spirit. Amen. The great Saint, the great Saint Saint letter to port Marie's, he's a patron Saint. The parish missions tells a terrifying story, quote, a certain man of rank who lived in the proximate occasion as sin with a depraved female had found to his great misfortune a singularly unconcerned confessor who is always ready to give him absolution. From time to time. This gentleman's wife, a lady of great potty, would prick the conscience of her husband in order to lead him to suspect the validity of all those absolutions. Thus given without the proximate occasion being removed, he only turned her efforts into ridicule.
Speaker 0 01:02 Do you want to become a theologian? Take care of your own soul. Leave me to mine. Mine. If my confessor was not justified in himself on me, he would not do it. He continued to live and to confess as before and at death. His confession was his keeping with those he'd been accustomed to make during life. One day his widow was praying a chapter where all of a sudden she saw before a monster in human form strong with flames seated on the shoulders of another man. The good lady would have fled when the monster cried out to her. Stop. Know that I am the soul of your husband, condemned to hell and that he who bears me is my confess. We were damned I from making unworthy confessions and he from Wordly absolving me. He then disappeared.
Speaker 1 02:02 Quote,
Speaker 0 02:06 well, how could that be? Why exactly would a man who went to confession regularly? Why would it be Dan and his confessor along with him? Those are important questions in order to answer them. Today, I'm going to take a closer look at the sacrament of penance, but before we do that, let's remind ourselves of what we're doing of these next few weeks. As we noted last week, we're having a Henry the eighth moment right now in the Catholic church and it's an absolutely Epic disaster. And as we also noted last week, in order to really appreciate the situation and each one of us needs to understand it in order to make sense of what it's going on right now between the pulp and for Carlos, Carla Berkins companions in order to really appreciate what's going on right now and why it matters, why it really matters, we need to some perspective.
Speaker 0 03:00 And so as we also noted last week, we need to start by reviewing some of the fundamental points as the unchanging and unchangeable Catholic faith. And after we've done that, then we'll tie it all together. So last week we reviewed some of the basic teachings concerning marriage. Today we're going to take a closer look at some of the basic teachings regarding the sacrament of penance. So let's get started. In order to make sure we have a clear understanding of what we'll be talking about. We'll quickly review mortal and venial sin and the three things required for sacrament, which are the minister, the matter of the sacrament in the form of the sacrament, mortal sin.
Speaker 0 03:41 What is mortal sin? Everyone should burn this into his mind. Mortal sin is the problem. It's the one problem that can land us in the fires of hell. The catechism tells us that mortal sin is a grievous offense against the law of God, a single mortal sin, one mortal sin to pride the soul of sanctifying grace, which is a supernatural life for the soul. It also makes the soul in enemy. God takes away all the mirror of its good actions, deprives it of the right to everlasting happiness and heaven and makes it deserving of everlasting punishment in hell.
Speaker 0 04:24 There are three things necessary to make a sin mortal. First, the thought desire word action oral mission must be seriously wrong or considered seriously wrong at the time. Second, the sinner must be mindful of the serious wrong and third, the center must fully consent to it. Again at three things necessarily to make of sin mortal are serious matter, sufficient reflection, full consent of the will. Those are the three things necessary to make a sin moral, a serious matter, sufficient reflection, full consent of the will. Okay, so what does the man do? Practically speaking, who commits the motor sin? He turns his back completely on God as it were, and he chooses instead to turn towards some creature. Not in so many words, the sinner says to God, get away from me. I will not obey you. I will not serve you. I will not acknowledge you as my Lord.
Speaker 0 05:30 I will not have you for my God. This sinful pleasure that we're late gratification, that advantage, that gratification in my revenge, that will be my God. Okay, so that's more of the same <inaudible> we all learned in our catechism that venial sin is a less serious offense against the law of God, which does not deprive the soul of sanctifying grace and which can be pardoned even with the SAC. No confession so that he's Veneman sin. Now let's quickly review the three things required for a sacrament, and that's the minister, the matter, the sacrament and the form of a sacrament. Okay. The minister of the sacrament is a person with a power to confect the sacrament in the name of Jesus Christ and by his authority, the minister must have the intention of doing what? The church intense. Briefly, what are the matter and form of a sacrament?
Speaker 0 06:33 The matter is the material used for the sacrament, the sensible part of the sacrament. For example, water for baptism, wheat bread, and grape wine for most blessed sacrament. The alter the form then are the words that the minister must pronounce in order to confect the sacrament. The words the minister must pronounce in order to validly administer the sacrament. For example, I baptized the name of father, son, the Holy spirit as he's pouring water. Okay, so here's the point. Suppose a priest, we're seeing mass net, the offertory. When he lifts off the Paul, he sees instead of a wheat host lying there, he sees a vanilla way for lying on the path. Obviously that's not proper matter, is it? Absolutely not. Now this is important. What would happen to that vanilla way for the priest were so wicked as to pronounce the words of institution, the form. In other words, if the priest were to say over that vanilla way for the proper form of the sacrament, which if he were to say, this is my body over that vanilla way, what would happen to that vanilla wafer? Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. It's not proper matter. So even if heaven forbid the priests were to say those words, absolutely nothing would happen to the of wafer. Nothing could happen to it because it is a proper matter. It isn't wheat. But if, heaven forbid, the priest actually did try to consecrate that vanilla wafer, nothing would happen to that vanilla wafer, that's for sure. But something would certainly happen to him. Something terrible would happen to him. Why? Because he would have just deliberately committed a horrific mortal sin
Speaker 0 08:28 and what exact kind of mortal sin would this be? Be the terrible sin of sacrilege. Sacrilege is the mistreatment of sacred persons places or things. It's a terrible mortal sin. All that, but way of background. Now let's turn to the problem at hand. Remember, we're trying to get a clear understanding of why the man who'd been going confessional regularly was down along with his confessor. So it break the answer into two parts. First we'll make sure we'll all understand why the man was damned and then we'll make sure we all understand why the priest was damned. Okay, so why was that man down? We'll start answering that question by first reviewing the matter and form of the sacrament of penance. And we'll use the teaching of the council of Trent. I quote from the concept trend, the form of the sacrament of penance are those words of the minister.
Speaker 0 09:31 I absolve the etc to which indeed laudably add certain prayers according to the custom Holy church, which however, do not by any means belong to the essence of the form, nor are they necessary for the administration of the sacrament. The acts of the penitent himself, namely contrition, confession and satisfaction constitute the matter of this sacrament, which adds in as much as they are by God's institution required in the penitent the integrity of the sacrament and for the full and complete remission of sins are for this reason called the parts of penance. Close quote, the cannula concept, Trent. Okay, so the form of the sacrament of penance, which is applied by the priest dependent is I absolve you a Gotay absolvable. There's a lot of other stuff we say, but that's the form. And make sure you listen for that when you're gone. Confession. But you know, there's plenty of priests.
Speaker 0 10:29 We have to go to confession just like everybody else. And sometimes you say, let's do that over again. Okay? You have to say, I absolve you. Not your sins are forgiven. Good, good. But you have to forgive them first. Listen, equity absolvo is what it is in Latin. I absolve. It can be an anti language, but it means I absolve you. That's what it is. Not your sins are forgiven. That's at the end. That's true. Alright, I absolve you. So the form of the sacrament of penance, which is applied with a priest. The Pentatude is I absolve you. Eggo tape, absolvable and the matter of the sacrament of penance that's brought by the penitent to the confessional has three parts, contrition, confession, satisfaction. Again, the form is I absolve you <inaudible> and there are three parts to the matter, contrition, confession, satisfaction. We'll quickly review confession, satisfaction, and we'll look at contrition after those two.
Speaker 0 11:31 Okay, confession, the concept of trim, cool. The complete confession sins was also instituted by the Lord and is by divine law necessary for all who have fallen after baptism. Close quote, the counsel of trend. Now the catechism explains this. I quote the chief qualities of a good confession are three. It must be humble, sincere, and entire. Our confessions humble. When you accuse ourselves of our sins with a conviction of guilt for having offended God, Archie confesses his sincere when we tell our sins, not those of others honestly and frankly just as they are without excusing or exaggerating them as if we were telling them to God himself. Being very careful not to mention by name. Anyone in confession. Our confession is entire. When we confess, at least all our mortal sins turn their con the number of times we've committed each sin and any circumstances changing their nature. Close quotes, not confession has always been one of the main reasons people convert all the self help books in the world. All the psychologist, psychiatrist, counselors in the world, all the price and preachers in the world can't wash away the guilt of even one.
Speaker 1 12:56 Okay?
Speaker 0 12:58 Satisfaction. Satisfaction is just another word for the penance given by the priest. The catechism explains, quote, the priest gives us a penance after confession that we may make some a Toma to God for our sins, receive help to avoid them in the future and make some satisfaction for the temporal punishment due to them close. Cool. Okay. Now let's take a close look at the most important of the three parts of matter, which is contrition.
Speaker 0 13:31 <inaudible>, the council of Trent. I quote, contrition, which holds the first place among the four said acts. The penitent is a sorrow of mine and a detestation for sin with a purpose of not sending in the future. The Holy concert declares, therefore this contrition applies. And not only an abstention from sin and the resolution and beginning of a new life, but also a hatred of the old. According to the statement from ZQ 1831 cast away from you all your transcriptions by which you have transgressed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Close quote the council of Trent. So what does that mean? Contrition is it saw, it says contrition is Saraj mine. It did detestation percent committed with a purpose of not seeing the future. Out of the three things brought by the pen it into confession, contrition, confession, satisfaction of those three things, attrition holds the first place, the patron Saint of confessors and moral theologians, the great doctor, moral theology, Saint Alphonsus, the gory has some very enlightening comments in this regard. He's going to explain what this means. Saint Alphonsus quote, Saraj for sin is so necessary for obtaining forgiveness that without it even God cannot pardon sin.
Speaker 0 14:55 A person who dies without making an examination of conscience or a confession of his sins may be Sade by making a sincere act of perfect contrition. And that is so important that I'm explained detail in a separate sermon at a later date. It's really important to understand this. Everybody would understand that, but anyway, a person who dies without making an examination of conscience or confession of his sins may be saved by making an act of sincere, perfect contrition when he has not time to confess his sins, nor priests to whom he can confess them. But without sorrow, it is impossible for the sinner to be saved. And here's the mistake of those people who preparing for confession, endeavor only to call to mind their sins, but make no effort to arrive at true sorrow for them. For this, we must earnestly ask God's help and before we go in the confessional, let us say hell Mary and out of the sorrows of the blessed Virgin that she may see that we reached to SAR for our sins.
Speaker 0 15:50 Close quote, the doctor of moral theology of the universal church, Saint Alphonsus not set up fonts. Describes the necessary qualities of sorrow. I quote to obtain the forgiveness of our sins and the sacrament of penance are soft for them. Must not be from the lips, but from the heart. The soul must conceive a true sorrow, a true displeasure or regret and true heartfelt repentance for the sins that have been committed must hate and a then close quote. Now before we go any farther, we need to understand this. Hatred. Sorrow is not a question of feelings. It's a question of the will. Presumably a man that uses cocaine likes it. Most people like the sins they involved, so presumably the man that's using cocaine likes it and so he feels like using it, but he has. If he has sincere softwares, previous sins of using cocaine, then even if his body craved it, it felt like he wanted, he would hate and the poor, the sin, no matter what his feelings were doing, it's the will that counts and not the feelings.
Speaker 0 16:54 The SAR for sin is hatred for sin, lies in the will and Saint Alphonsus points out that what God requires is a deliberate determination of the will. That would rather prefer to lose all things than to offended God. They would rather lose everything. They lose the grace and friendship of God. It's in our will. It's not an emotional thing. He points out so you know Fontus. It would not be sufficient to repent of your sin because it is harm your health, your property, or your reputation. This would be a natural motive. Close quote, SAR rooted in a purely natural motive, loss of a job, destruction of a marriage coming down with a disease that kind of sorrow is not sufficient. In other words, our sorrow must have a supernatural motive. We must be SAR for having offended God released for having lost to heaven in Meredith.
Speaker 0 17:44 Eternal damnation in hell. He points out we have to have the soul for all our moral sins. Each and every one of them. I quote with regard to mortal sins and it's necessary to have true software, all of them, and it's sincere, perfect purpose not to commit them again. Otherwise, no sin mortal video will be pardoned. The reason for this is no mortal sin can be pardoned without the infusion of sanctifying grace into the soul, but this grace cannot exist in the soul along with any mortal sin. Therefore, no one can obtain the part of one mortal sin without receiving the partner of them all. If someone's confessing only video sins, one video sin can be forgiven without part of another to obtain forgiveness. If any venial sin is enough to have true sauce for it. Close quotes, Saint Alphonsus. Okay, quick review. What have we seen wasting it out of the three things brought by the penitent to confession and that's contrition, confession and satisfaction.
Speaker 0 18:47 Contrition holds the first place we've seen it. SAR for sin is so necessary for forgiveness that without it, even God himself cannot forgive the sinner. We've seen that a person who dies without making an examination of conscience or confessing sins may be saved by making a sincere act of perfect contrition. If there's no time to confess his sins or no priest available to confess them, but without sorrow, it is impossible for the sinner to be saved. We've seen it. The SAR for sin is hatred percent lies in the will. That means we'd prefer to lose everything rather than lose the friendship of God rather than offend God and lose his graves. We've seen our sorrow must have a supernatural motive. He must be so up for having offended God or having lost heaven or fabbing Meredith damnation Hill. The natural motive, like the loss of job reputation, et cetera, is not sufficient.
Speaker 0 19:39 We've seen them. We need to have this serve for each and every one of our mortal sins or none of them are forgiven and we see that in regards to venial sins. One venial sin can be forgiven without the pardon of others. It's enough to have true SAR for one video sin in order to gain forgiveness. Now that we've looked at the properties of sorrow, let's consider the different possible types of sorrow for sin as we go through the possibilities. If it isn't already very obvious what the problem was with the man who had been going to confession while he was still down. If that isn't already obvious, it will be soon. Now this is a salvation issue. So let's make absolutely SU sure that we each have a very clear understanding. This now will follow a commentary on Saint Alphonsus that was done by a man that I considered to be the greatest moral theologian of recent times.
Speaker 0 20:27 That's the late great father Alphonsus Sutton fi father and Saint Alphonsus explains there are three or four possible conditions of a soul falling mortal sins. So there's four possible conditions of a soul after a mortal sin. The first possible condition is a rep probate, since the reprobate sense occurs with someone by God's just decree, is that so much of his wisdom withdrawn as a punishment, traveling abuse, they no longer seriously or intelligently cares about his salvation. Again, a reprivated sense occurs when someone by God's just decree has had so much of his wisdom withdrawn as a punishment for having abused did that you no longer seriously or intelligently cares about a salvation. He just go down to rough bar on a Saturday night, not that I recommended, and ask them where they think they're going to go when they die. I guess I'll go to hell. Well, my friends.
Speaker 3 21:23 That's a cool, I've heard that with my own ears. That's a cool. The people were serious about the answer.
Speaker 0 21:33 South fonts is considered the final repentance and salvation such souls normally quite improbable, but once you pray for them and give them a good example is that our degrees, this state, and it's not definitive. Well, there's life. There's hall, so that's the reprobate sentence. The second possible condition to soul after moral sin is defective contrition. Detective contrition occurs when the center feels at some regret for his sins. Maybe I'll even cry over him, but he remains unwilling to put God first in his life. He lacks a firm purpose of amendment. For example, a man with the fact of contrition may very well go to confession, but he won't return ill-gotten goods. He will not start paying overdue debts, which he's able to pay. He wants to stop living with a concubine or keeping company with a sinful companion. He won't abandon a drug or alcohol habit. He won't stop using contraception. He won't put a filter on his computers. Smartphone, he wants to stop watching evil shows on TV. He won't repent the sterilization, he won't forgive an enemy, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Here's the point. As long as the man is in a state of defected contrition, even if you were to go to confession, since a man with detective Patricia is not serious about avoiding sin in the near occasion of sin, his act of contrition
Speaker 3 22:56 would be a lie, be a lie,
Speaker 0 23:00 and God sees that even if the priest doesn't it, even as a priest were to pronounce the words of absolution over such a man one time, 10 times a hundred times each and every time that absolution would just ricochet off.
Speaker 3 23:15 Why?
Speaker 0 23:16 Because it's impossible to forgive sins
Speaker 3 23:20 without true contrition.
Speaker 0 23:22 If a man with the fact that Patricia tries to confess, and even if the priest says the words of absolution, no sins are forgiven,
Speaker 3 23:33 no one,
Speaker 0 23:37 the confession is bad to have socials and vowed not only with men remain in his sins, he's now added the sin of a sacrilegious confession as tally. The basic problem here is the man wants to get right with the Lord, but still keep partying with the devil. We have it on the highest authority that no man can serve. Two masters
Speaker 0 23:59 centers with the of contrition can often be helped by a good confessor devote friend to take the necessary steps which will make it possible for him to validly receive absolution, so that's defective contrition. Now obviously it's completely impossible for sinners with the rep rate sense or what the fact of contrition to make good confessions and be reconciled with God, but indeed we all can. We all should do something here for these poor creatures are hurdling towards damnation. What can we do, sister Lucia answers. Cool. Our lady recommended to me prayer and sacrifice for sinners saying that a great number of down because they have no one to pray and sacrifice
Speaker 1 24:42 close. Cool.
Speaker 0 24:44 We have the example of children and families
Speaker 1 24:47 don't let that be wasted on us.
Speaker 0 24:50 Now God's grace is amazing. I'm personally a very close to several, I guess you'd have to say formally unbelievable reprobate.
Speaker 1 24:59 We did convert actually become Holy. Someone had to pay that price.
Speaker 0 25:13 The third possible condition of a soul after moral sin is imperfect contrition. That's sometimes called a Trish contrition is called imperfect, and the sinner indeed at least has the first beginning. The first spark of love of God, which Saint Alphonsus says is present. If the sinner has the firm purpose of amendment,
Speaker 0 25:35 but if he's moving in this case, he's moved by less perfect motive than God's lovableness, such as for considering the ugliness of sin or the fact of having deserved hell at a loss of heaven and punishment. If someone guilty of a mortal sin has imperfect compression, he can't be pardoned until the moment he makes a good confession. So that's imperfect contrition. The fourth possible condition of a soul after mortal sin is perfect contrition. Patricia is called perfect when the center is moved principally by considering God's goodness and levelness, although he may still be moved so strongly, but secondarily by a fear of hell and God's justice, perfect condition, regret for sin on account of the wrong done for God. So love is a principle motive here, which is why wins God's partner. As soon as the soul arrives, assuming that a sinner includes in it the will to fulfill all that God asks for in req to make reconciliation with him and for all property with categorized Catholics, we realize this would include the intention to make it a good confession at the first opportunity.
Speaker 0 26:39 So properly categorized, Catholics realize perfect includes intention to make a good confession. So that's perfect contrition. Okay. What have we seen? We've seen an Atrik committee, a moral sin. There are four possible States of the soul. One the reprobates sense when the center as a punishment for sin, no longer seriously intelligent that cares about his salvation to the fact of contrition. The sinner has some regret for sin, but lacks a firm purpose of amendment three imperfect contrition. When the center does have a perfect firm purpose of amendment, but it's moved by less pure, perfect motives than love of God. For example, the fear of hell and for perfect contrition, the center is moved by regret for sin, unaccounted the wrong node. God who is infinitely good and worthy of all. Okay. So we started by trying to get a clear understanding why the man who had been regularly going to confessionals damned along with his confessor.
Speaker 0 27:34 It should be obvious to everyone. By now, he's damn because he is guilt of mortal sin, but didn't have true star for sins. He kept going to confession. That means he wasn't a complete wreck, probate, but he's unwilling to put God first his life. He wouldn't set aside the sinful companion. In other words, he lacked a firm purpose of amendment and he wouldn't stop keeping company with his companion. And so he had defective contrition. Every time he went to confession. Even if you very carefully confessed each and every one of his mortal sins and carefully did the penance, it still did an absolutely no good. Why? Because every time he made his act of contrition, it was a lie. He's lying to God. He wasn't serious about avoiding that woman. And because of that, every time the confessor pronounced, the words of absolution, nothing happened.
Speaker 0 28:21 It just ricocheted off. The confessions were absolutely valid, which means that not only did he remain in sin, every time he had those confessions, he came out of the confessional in a worse state than he went in. Since each time he also committed another sin, the sin of his sacrifice was confession. So now we can see why that poor man was damned. What about the priest? Why was the priest damned? Remember, we consider the situation when the priest is saying mass and the offertory we takes out the POL instead of we'd host line there. There's a vanilla wafer say in the patent, which obviously isn't properly matter, and we know it's absolutely not true. What happened to that vanilla wafer? If the priests were so wicked as to pronounce the words of institution, the form over it. Why? Because it isn't proper matter. But if this priest actually did try to concentrate their vanilla wafer, nothing would happen to fill in the wafer, but he would commit to terrible sin of sacrilege.
Speaker 0 29:18 So why was this priest? Damn the priest was Dan. Because in the first place, he didn't require the man to separate from a sinful companion. Even though it would have been obvious from the man's confession, the Pennington was obviously not making any effort to reform his life and avoid the near occasion of sin. So in the first place, the priest did nothing to stop that man from falling into hell, which demonstrates on a part of the priest, a complete lack of charity for the center. In fact, it demonstrates a true hatred for him. And on top of that, to make matters even worse is in spite of fact, it's obvious that the penitent is lacking the most important part of matter, which is contrition for his sins. That's the most important part of the matter of sacrament. The priest would invalidly pronounced these words of absolution anyway, which resulted in two more sins, one of the part of the Pennington, which is a sacrilegious confession when I'm part of the priest, as soon as sacrad showing a contempt for God and for the holiness of the sacraments, as he invalidly pronounces his sacramental form over improv
Speaker 3 30:24 her manner.
Speaker 0 30:26 Now compare the way this poor Dan priests is poor damn penitent to the fatherly advice. Pope Leo the 12th gave the confessors who were confronted with these kinds of situations. I quote from Leila 12 who are the penitents that are to be judged indisposed for absolution. They are who are prudently judged to lack that attitude of sorrow, repentance whereby souls are ready to obtain divine grace in the sacrament, but say to it that the need for things have been done for these souls, by the priest, and that in this process they are not severely treated beyond what is do. See to it that every diligent effort is made to Rouse and them a hatred for sin. And when accompanies this with very earnest prayers poured forth to God, the minister should be aware of nothing more than it should be aware of this name it do his fault. One goes away. Disbelieving God's goodness, antagonistic towards the sacrament of reconciliation. Therefore, if there is a just reason to delay absolution, the kindness words he is capable of, the minister should speak persuasively to the penitent to show them that the delay is necessary, that his duty, his office, and even their salvation definitively demand also should induce in the kindest way to return property. So when they have fatefully performed the things which have profitably prescribed, they may loose from the bonds of sin, restorative new by the sweetness of divine grace, close quo,
Speaker 3 31:46 the vicar of Christ.
Speaker 0 31:49 If there's a just reason to delay absolution with the kindness words he's capable of, the minister should speak persuasively to the penitents to show them that this delay is necessary, that his duty and office and even their salvation definitively demand. He should also induce them in the kindest way to return promptly. So when they have faithfully performed the things which have been properly prescribed, then be loosed for the bond as soon be restored. A new by the sweetness of divine
Speaker 3 32:14 right. What are we saying here?
Speaker 0 32:19 We're saying that if a priest follows these principles and delays appetitive absolution till he has a proper contrition until he removes himself from the near occasion, soon
Speaker 3 32:31 he's not our enemy. He loves us enough to keep us from hurling over into the best.
Speaker 0 32:40 I fully recognize this is not standard confessional procedure in our day and age. If we confessors were held up to the kind of professional standards that physicians are held up to, there probably wouldn't be many of us left to practice. In fact, almost not.
Speaker 0 32:55 There's a lot of spiritual malpractice these days. A lot of it. Okay, so it's easy to see why the confess was also damned and why he was beneath the adult or he was responsible for helping that man get to heaven and avoid health. Not only he didn't do that in a very real sense, he's that accomplishment. The coppice the man had procured his damnation. There's certain senses of shoving a much deeper place into to help by allowing would make all those sacrilegious confessions, but in these types of situations. It's also unfortunately not uncommon to find confessors who not only in a valid sack religiously attempt to absolve these kinds of centers without institution. They remove the near occasion of sin, the central command, unfiltered internet to contraceptives, but they're also guilty of another fence and a fence is so great that not only is it serious sin a serious mortal sin, it's also listed in the churches legal system as a crime.
Speaker 0 33:51 The crime is called solicitation solicitation. In this context, solicitation has a broader meaning than when we use it in common everyday speech. There'll be obvious why solicitations as sentences, we explain it, but to come to a little deeper appreciation of it as a crime. We'll take various excerpts from a commentaries on Canon law fondant, a brilliant article written by Dr. Edward Peters. He's a well known Canon lawyer and by quoting from this article and noise suggests I grew with his writings across the board, especially the stuff he written on a nomads. But this is a brilliant article. Okay. Canon 1387 the 1983 code of Canon law, and this is nothing new, but this isn't the new code too, but this has been around. It's a traditional thing. Canon 1387 explains the Connecticut crime of solicitation. I quote a priest who had confession on that occasion under the pretext of confession.
Speaker 0 34:43 So let's, it's a penitentiary. A sin against the sixth commandment is to be punished according to gravity of the fence. Suspension, prohibition to deprivations in the more serious cases is to be dismissed from the clerical state. Close quote. In other words, the crime of solicitation consists in a confessor given to penitent immoral advice concerning any sixth commandment matters to be acted on in any context. I quote, solicitation exists if the confessor simply suggests that the person committed the impure acts at any time. For example, counsels, the use of contraceptives, close quote unquote. Indeed the delegate is committed even by wrong advice, wrong advice as to the sinfulness of evil thoughts. Close quote, that last quote shows. This pertains also to the ninth command. So this stage in other words isn't limited simply to the confessor attempted to solicit some solicit, someone to send in the common understanding word.
Speaker 0 35:37 It also includes evil advice regarding such matters is contraception, sterilization, fornication, adultery, perverse acts of any type viewing, Imperium, just entertaining impure thoughts and so forth. And obviously giving this type of work advice, actually diabolical advice would complete pervert and corrupt the whole role of the confessor in the very context of the sacrament. Confession in terms of the crime quote, confessors giving objectively immoral advice in these matters to penitent to be acted on either by the penitent alone, by the penitent with a third party. Is it crime under 1983 code to be tried at the local level? Close quote, but solicitation, but common understanding the term is a crime so serious it can and must be judged only enrollment itself. So what have we seen in this section? This room, we've seen it. Solicitation is a crime which consists in a confessor giving to penitent immoral advice concerning any six commandment matters to be acted upon in any context we've seen.
Speaker 0 36:35 It isn't limited simply to the confessor temping someone to solicit to sin. The common understanding the word includes evil advice regarding such matters as contraception, fornication, adultery, sterilization, perverse acts of any type, viewing, important peer images, entertaining impure thoughts and so forth. We've seen in the case of confessor giving objectively immoral advice in these matters to Pennington to be acted on either by the penitent alone or with a third party. It's a crime to be tried at the local level, but in the common understanding, it's a crime. So serious, it has to be tried. Well, that's enough for today. As we know last week, we're having this Henry, the eighth moment in the church to make sense out of what's going on between the Pope and four carloads and why it really matters. We've been reviewing some fundamental points of the faith before we tied together.
Speaker 0 37:22 So last week we reviewed some of the basic teachings concerning marriage. Today, we took a closer look at some of the basic teachings concerning Sacra penance as regards both to Pennington and the priesthood and confessions. Let's close. We each need to take to heart the saw morning font and the catechism of the concept of trend. Cool. The fateful. Therefore, we'll see the great care that each one should take and selected as a confessor, a priest who was recommended by integrity of love, by learning and prudence, who is deeply impressed with an awful weight and responsibility of the station which he holds, who understands well, the punishment due to every sin. It can also discern who are to be roost in order to be bomb close. Quote the catechism, the concentrate, the faithful. We'll see the great care that each one should take and Slack you as a confessor. A priest was recommended by integrity of life, by learning improves, who's deeply impressed with awful Wade responsibility to station, which he holds, who understands where the punishment due to every sin, and he can discern where to be loosed and who are to be bomb.
