Chapter, §
1 Intro | encroaching on the judgement of God, who alone knows every heart,
2 Intro | Lord, should kneel before God and implore forgiveness
3 Intro | invited to acknowledge, before God and before those offended
4 Intro | strengthened only by ‘the love of God which has been poured into
5 Intro | is the glorification of God, because living in obedience
6 Intro | confessio laudis” addressed to God, before whom alone it becomes
7 1, 1 | the lives of the People of God. From its first celebration
8 1, 1 | nor of the need to ask God’s pardon for conduct in
9 1, 1 | pardon addressed as much to God as to a group of contemporaries.
10 1, 1 | the Pope asked “pardon of God…and of the separated brethren”
11 1 (7) | even more rigorously than God will on the day of his wrath”
12 1, 2 | state, “we ask pardon of God and of the separated brethren,
13 1, 2 | reveal the authentic face of God and religion.”10 In addition,
14 1, 2 | reconciliation of sinners to God by means of the sacramental
15 1, 3 | sinner stands alone before God with his sin, repentance,
16 1, 3 | grace which reconciles with God.27 Also the situations of “
17 1 (26)| that the Church “before God and man” acknowledges as
18 1, 4 | simple fact that the truth of God and its moral requirements
19 1, 4 | horizon of reconciliation with God and neighbor.~
20 2, 1 | alludes to its sins against God without any (explicit) reference
21 2, 1 | confession - directed to God - of the current sins of
22 2 (32)| 22ff: Solomon prays that God will forgive the future
23 2 (32)| have broken faith with our God, by marrying foreign women”);
24 2 (32)| because of “our sins” against God).~
25 2, 1 | confession is addressed solely to God, and the sins confessed
26 2 (34)| collective lament implores God: “do not impute to us the
27 2 (34)| sinned against the Lord our God… we and our fathers”); Jer
28 2, 1 | faults committed against God. What is more, acts of violence
29 2 (35)| include failing to trust God (for example; Dt 1:41; Nm
30 2 (35)| women contrary to the law of God (Ezr 9-10). In Is 59:13b
31 2 (36)| presented as a requirement of God’s law (cf. Dt 7:3) in all
32 2, 1 | in the confession before God of the “sins of the fathers,”
33 2, 1 | Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers... For we
34 2, 2 | the absolute holiness of God. The God of Jesus is the
35 2, 2 | absolute holiness of God. The God of Jesus is the God of Israel (
36 2, 2 | The God of Jesus is the God of Israel (cf. Jn 4:22),
37 2, 2 | The triple proclamation of God as “holy” in Is 6:3 returns
38 2, 2 | the absolute holiness of God; however, for Christian
39 2, 2 | sense that the holiness of God becomes present in the holiness
40 2, 2 | have offended them, just as God himself always offers his
41 2, 2 | need for forgiveness by God. The disciple is invited
42 2, 2 | he too is a sinner before God, who never refuses forgiveness
43 2, 2 | neighbor is not pleasing to God. What matters is changing
44 2, 2 | wound his relationship with God and with his neighbor (cf.
45 2, 2 | expect pardon only from God, because only God is always
46 2, 2 | only from God, because only God is always merciful and ready
47 2, 2 | offended are reconciled by God who receives and forgives
48 2, 3 | had been given to them by God, to the advantage of other
49 2, 3 | fabric of the People of God and restore independence
50 2, 3 | s profession of faith in God who had liberated his people
51 2, 3 | Exodus. “I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of
52 2, 3 | of Canaan and to be your God” (Lv 25:38; cf. vss 42,45).
53 2, 3 | freed by the powerful arm of God – was in fact a denial of
54 2, 3 | was in fact a denial of God’s saving action in and through
55 2, 3 | depict the Anointed One as God’s herald sent to “evangelize”
56 2, 4 | says about the holiness of God, the intergenerational solidarity
57 2, 4 | intergenerational solidarity of God’s people, and the sinfulness
58 2, 4 | re-establishing the order of God’s original plan for creation.
59 2, 4 | grace prompts the People of God as a whole, as well as each
60 3 | of doing penance. Before God and man, she always acknowledges
61 3, 1 | in the incarnate Word of God, the assumed humanity is
62 3, 1 | in the grace bestowed by God – needs nevertheless to
63 3, 1 | community of the saints implore God to look upon the faith of
64 3 (47)| Credo of the People of God (June 30, 1968), n. 19 (
65 3, 2 | For Christ, the Son of God, who with the Father and
66 3, 2 | Spirit, to the glory of God. For this reason, everyone
67 3, 2 | mission of the People of God until the end of time and
68 3, 2 | is always directed toward God and others, and thus has
69 3, 2 | followers of Christ, called by God not according to their works,
70 3, 2 | been made truly children of God in the Baptism of faith
71 3, 2 | they have received from God.”49 The baptized person
72 3, 2 | the grace that comes from God. No one becomes himself
73 3, 3 | conversion in the People of God. The Church on earth is “
74 3, 3 | to sin, to turn away from God. Now, in this new petition [‘
75 3, 3 | that confesses her faith in God through the confession of
76 3, 3 | of doing penance: Before God and man, she always acknowledges
77 3, 4 | by means of the Word of God faithfully received, becomes
78 3, 4 | Holy Spirit and born of God.”57 Augustine, for example,
79 3, 4 | succinctly: “One cannot have God as a father who doesn’t
80 3, 4 | birth to new children for God. He is ever more Mother
81 3, 4 | communion of the People of God in its weightiest form:
82 4, 2 | action of the Spirit of God and on the permanent identity
83 4, 2 | correspond to the gift of God in different forms and situations
84 4, 2 | communion of the People of God in its various historical
85 5 | examination of conscience before God with a view to her own interior
86 5, 1 | above all through imploring God’s forgiveness for the wrongs
87 5, 1 | act as good or evil before God. In effect, only God knows
88 5, 1 | before God. In effect, only God knows the moral value of
89 5, 1 | at the confession of the God whose “mercy is from age
90 5, 2 | life of the Trinitarian God revealed to the world by
91 5, 2 | mankind’s life with the Triune God. If Christians live this
92 5, 2 | Paul VI asked pardon of God and of the “separated brethren,”
93 5, 2 | certainly saddened the Spirit of God (cf. Eph 4:30). To the extent
94 5, 2 | prayer we ask pardon of God and of the separated brethren,
95 5, 5 | phenomenon of the denial of God in its many forms. What
96 5, 5 | Connected to the eclipse of God, one encounters then a series
97 5, 5 | atheism.”89~The true face of God has been revealed in Jesus
98 5, 5 | true face of the living God. They are called to radiate
99 5, 5 | the world the truth that “God is love (agape)” (1 Jn 4:
100 5, 5 | agape)” (1 Jn 4:8,16). Since God is love, he is also a Trinity
101 5, 5 | can radiate the truth that God is love is by their own
102 5, 5 | reveal the authentic face of God and of religion.”90~Finally,
103 5, 5 | prelude to the request for God’s forgiveness that opens
104 6 | the life of the People of God? And what are the consequences
105 6, 1 | reform of the People of God. “Therefore, if the influence
106 6, 1 | fidelity to the will of God regarding his people95 that
107 6, 1 | the Church gives to the God of mercy and to his liberating
108 6, 2 | request for forgiveness is God and that any human recipients –
109 6, 3 | in the truth and mercy of God as revealed by Jesus. What
110 6, 3 | that all are sinners before God!~In the dialogue with cultures,
111 6, 3 | exercised by the “crucified God.”97 One should also take
112 End | herself in the first place to God and seeks to give glory
113 End | covenant with the living God: “The glory of God is man
114 End | living God: “The glory of God is man fully alive; but
115 End | of man is the vision of God.”99 By such actions, the
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