[Xsb-development] fter His resurrection,

[Nistler B. <hau...@oh...>]

Ift of grace
operating within, and by the co-operation of the sinner, that the
heart is made contrite. The remembrance of God's
infinite love and perfections, accompanied by earnest prayer for
mercy, may rouse the soul to hatred
and grief for its sin, and thus is generated that contrition

perfect

through charity for having offended God so sovereignly good, who is to
be loved above all things. For His own sake, and regardless of the
penal consequences of sin, the soul is touched with sincere
compunction.
This sorrow, with the implicit or explicit desire to have recourse to
the Sacrament of Penance, reconciles
the soul at once with God, and restores the justifying or habitual
grace lost by grievous sin. "There is now no condemnation to those who
are in Christ
Jesus, who walls not according to the
flesh, but after
the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life iii Christ Jesus hath
delivered me from the law of sin and of death."[21] The soul about to
go before
God's judgment-seat, if it be in deadly
sin, and have not at hand
the means for obtaining absolution, is obliged to have this perfect
contrition, or otherwise the sin remains unforgiven. Again, the soul,
contemplating in the sight of God the turpitude of sin, as made known
to us by revelation, or the terror of God's judgment on those
condemned to hell, or the irreparable loss of the sight of God
consequent on
sin, may be excited by fear of Him who hath