Reconciliation

“God’s will is to save us, and nothing pleases him more than our coming back to him with true repentance.” - St. Maximus the Confessor

In the sacrament of penance the faithful who confess their sins to a legitimate minister, are sorry for them, and intend to reform themselves obtain from God through the absolution imparted by the same minister forgiveness for the sins they have committed after baptism and, at the same, time are reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by sinning. (Can. 959)