COMMENTARY: Lent is the perfect time to rediscover the Act of Contrition and the divine mercy it calls us to embrace.

Be truly sorry for your sins. The essential act of Penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to ...

In the Church’s tradition of prayer, fasting and charity ... to those who have been away from confession for a long time for whatever reason. The act of reflecting on our lives and confessing ...

A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to receive the Body and Blood of the Lord without prior sacramental confession except ... the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition ...