O my God, I am heartly sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are ...

In what was described as an act of contrition on behalf of the church ... his treasured possession." And in the New Testament, especially in the letters of Paul, there are passages justifying ...

A. Contrition, or sorrow for sin, is a hatred of sin and a true grief of the soul for having offended God, with a firm purpose of sinning no more. Q. 754. Give an example of how we should hate and ...