ABSOLUTION as HEALING:

What is healed and What is left behind?

Primary task to declare forgiveness in a way the penitent can hear.

PRAYER as CENTRAL:

Eastern model of director/abba/geron as principally one who prays for you

Models of Spiritual Friendship and bearing one another's burdens

KNOWLEDGE of CONSEQUENCES of SIN (Social and Individual)

Ancient Canons employing almost exclusively remedy of excommunication

Power in culture where interrelationships so significant

CONFESSION

Bringing into the light the matter for the sacramental transformation

Kind and Number - significance of Speaking the truth in the presence of another

COMPUNCTIO - the Pierced Heart (sorrow for sin) that experiences both sorrow for sin and longing for heaven; renewed desire for the good

What can be taken away and what remains (in memory, habits, sense of self, attitudes)

Relationship (and distinction) between Satisfaction and assigned Penance.

The Virtue of Penitence and the Possibility of Transformation

[A] With regard to Penitence (Penance/poenitentia)

[B] With regard to Transformation (Reform/Progress)

VIR	TUE	versus	VI	CE
	Prudence Temperance Courage Justice		Ignorance Lust Cowardice Injustice

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