The Sacrament of Reconciliation:

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-254
Author(s):  
Alex Kalathikattil
Keyword(s):  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation

scholarly journals Sacramentum Pacis: The Eucharist as the Sacrament of Peace

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ordinary Means

This paper will examine the nature of the Eucharist as a “sacrament of peace”, a sacrament by which the Christian believer is reconciled to Christ and the Church. While, properly-speaking, the Sacrament of Reconciliation is the ordinary means of this activity, one sees that the Eucharist provides a healing balm for sin, enflames the soul with the fire of charity, and reveals itself as both a symbol of peace already realized and a sign of peace yet to come. This “sacrament of peace” bestows God’s peace to the Church, which, in turn, commissions the Christian to embody this peace through works of mercy and initiatives of justice. Through this, we see the social and missional implications for a community centered around the Eucharistic table. Helpful to this investigation will be the Eucharistic theology of the late Orthodox theologian, Alexander Schmemann and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. 

Conversion: Falling into Friendship Like No Other

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-393
Author(s):  
Ligita Ryliškytė
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Christian Conversion ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation ◽  
Friendship With God

In the context of contemporary vicissitudes, this article examines how Lonergan’s grasp of the meaning of redemption illuminates our understanding of Christian conversion. Lonergan’s Law of the Cross implies that the effectiveness of Christian conversion hinges on one’s antecedent willingness to undertake suffering for the sake of the transformation of evil into good. His analogies for Christ’s salvific work with the sacrament of reconciliation and with friendship further clarify the christomorphic, penitential, and community-building character of conversion, which proceeds from the total, transformative, and diffusive falling into friendship with God.

Review: The Sacrament of Reconciliation

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-310
Author(s):  
Gordon Jeanes
Keyword(s):  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

1983 ◽  
Vol 72 (286) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Author(s):  
Dale Trautman
Keyword(s):  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation

To Go and Sin Once More: Confession and Joyce's ‘Nausicaa’ Episode

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McGuigan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Commercial Culture ◽  
Functional Importance ◽  
Sacrament Of Reconciliation ◽  
The Catholic Church

While critics note the saturation of Gerty MacDowell's mind with British commercial culture in the ‘Nausicaa’ episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, less well noted is the language and logic of Ireland's other master, Rome. In addition to the Marian images of piety and purity Gerty would have learned through religious societies like the Children of Mary, one finds elements of the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation. Joyce's rejection of the Catholic Church being common knowledge, it is surprising to find that the language and logic of confession which pervades much of Gerty's narrative and thought is not the repressive force one might expect. Instead, the logic of sin and redemption becomes a means for Gerty to embrace and explore her sexuality, to indulge her sexual desire, enhancing her enjoyment while allowing her to defer moral judgment. Through Gerty, Joyce diagnoses confession's functional importance in the mental, social, and sexual lives of many Irish of his day, complicating our assessments of modernist attitudes towards organized religion.

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