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| God Pardons Sins, But on Condition of Penitence, Certain Times for Which Have Been Fixed by the Law of the Church.
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Chapter 65.—God Pardons
Sins, But on Condition of Penitence, Certain Times for Which Have
Been Fixed by the Law of the Church.
But even crimes themselves, however
great, may be remitted in the Holy Church; and the mercy of God is
never to be despaired of by men who truly repent, each according to
the measure of his sin. And in the act of repentance, where a crime
has been committed of such a nature as to cut off the sinner from
the body of Christ, we are not to take account so much of the
measure of time as of the measure of sorrow; for a broken and a
contrite heart God doth not despise.1212
But as the grief of one heart is
frequently hid from another, and is not made known to others by
words or other signs, when it is manifest to Him of whom it is
said, “My groaning is not hid from Thee,”1213
those who govern the Church have
rightly appointed times of penitence, that the Church in which the
sins are remitted may be satisfied; and outside the Church sins are
not remitted. For the Church alone has received the pledge of the
Holy Spirit, without which there is no remission of sins—such, at
least, as brings the pardoned to eternal life.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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