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 1 Intro|       save “his people from their sins” (Mt 1:21) and to open for
 2 Intro|        Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven;
 3 Intro|       forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (
 4 Intro|          the remission of serious sins committed after Baptism'.
 5 Intro|        well as being aware of the sins they have committed, of
 6 Intro|         should also confess their sins. In this sense, the Council
 7 Intro|       penitents to name their own sins,(8) except where this is
 8 Intro|    integral confession of serious sins is by divine decree a constitutive
 9 Intro| impossibility of confessing one's sins from other situations in
10 2    |         faithful to confess their sins. It is particularly recommended
11 3    |        kind and number, all grave sins committed after Baptism
12 3    |         sin or of only one or two sins judged to be more important
13 3    |          that they confess venial sins also.(17)~
14 7    |          individually the serious sins which at present cannot
15 8    |    obligation “to confess serious sins at least once a year”(24)
16 8    |        person who has had serious sins remitted by general absolution