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How should I respond to my friend's understanding of God as remote?
Jim Blackburn
How many plenary or partial indulgences can one receive per day?
Jim Blackburn
Can a person gain an indulgence without intending to do so?
Jim Blackburn
Can a soul be delivered from hell through our prayers?
Jim Blackburn
Can we pray directly to God or must all prayer go through Jesus?
Jim Blackburn
How do I make an act of contrition?
Jim Blackburn
Given that at the Last Judgment the world will end, why in the “Glory Be” do we say “world without end”?
Jim Blackburn
Are we bound to follow the 2003 General Instruction of the Roman Missal?
Jim Blackburn
Should we refrain from holding hands during the Our Father?
Jim Blackburn
What is the significance of making the sign of the cross before and after private prayer?
Jim Blackburn

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"In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]."

~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.