A History of the Commandments of the Church

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Littis is litus tho multiplication os feasis reaches the mint of tising aWay from manual

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os feast days Iost to them With the fame senti-ments of feror Which are attributin to the Christians of the Apostolio rege.

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tered in the first centuries. What mers the sius submitted in praeside to that tribunal l Was confession public Or privatet Was thero a private alang With publio penaneel From What Ρsriod Ges auricular confession datet All thsse ques

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But this canon Was preceded by many locat laWs, Whita severat centuries before had made the pra tice ad but universia throughout tho West. Origin of the Comma ment. t cannot be a curately determined in What period the origin ofthis discipline goes bach. Is One Mises to realigefully What confession meant in olden times, hemust nos separato it from communion.

It is especialty as a preparation lar communionthat tho obligation os confession Was imposed;

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a 'Hujus vitas sunt quaedam gravia et mortifera, quae nisi per vehementissimam molestiam humiliationis cordia et contritionis apiritus et tribulationis poenitentiae non relaxantur. Haec dimittuntur per elinea Meleatae.' S. AUGUSTIN., Ee m. 278. P. L., L

XXXVIII, 2273-2274.

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ine sacrament of Penance.'

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n Vestige of in obsolete Observanoe. It is also found in os Poenitentiate Vallicellanum III. Dorder to secure a more venerabis authorio for iis

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η Εbdomada priori ante initium Quadragesimas presbyteri plebium convocent ad se populum et discordantes canonica Ructoritate reconcilient, et omnia jurgia aedent Et tunc primum confitentibus poenitentim dent, ita ut antequam eaput jejunii veniat omnes confessi poenitentiam acceptam habeant et liberius dioero asint: Dimitta nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittim dinitoribus nostriR. Presbyteri admonere debent plebem albi subjectam, ut omnis, qui ae sentit mortifero peccati vulnere in latum seria Ιm Di0jtigod by IOOOle

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Such is the picture, true to lus, of the discipline

os annuat confession With iis successive doelοP-

taurin, Whers they shali remala taeeling for therest of Lent. During the chant of sono the bishopblesses the ashes, and distributes it to the psople ;

ante quadragesimam eum omni festinatione recurrsit ad vivificatri in matrem Melisiam, ubi quod mala commisit eum omni humilliato si contritions eordia simpliciter confessus auacipiat remedia monitentias secundum modum canonicia auctoritatibus praefixum. Non solum autem ille qui mortale aliquid commisit,aed etiam omnia homo, quicumquo se rem oscit immRculatam

Christi hunicam, quam in baptismo accepit, peccati macula Polluisse, ad proprium sacerdotem festinet venire, ut cum puritato mentia omnos transgressionis omniaque peccata quibus Dei offensam ae incurrisse meminit, humiliter confiteatur et quidquid a sacerdoto fuit injunctum ae at ab ipso omnipotentia Dei ore emet probatum fundoubtedj a miaprint for prolatumVJ intendat et inutissimo observet. SUHMITE, Die B abiicher una die B ad riplin der Mohe, t. Ι, 774.7 mirantea, quibus secundum jus vel consuetudinem, pro gravioribus eriminibus solemnis est poenitentia injungenda. '