IV. Interior Penance

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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The human heart is heavy and hardened. God must give man a new heart.²⁵
Conversion is first of all a work of the grace of God who makes our hearts
return to him: “Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be
restored!”²⁶ God gives us the strength to begin anew. It is in
discovering the greatness of God’s love that our heart is shaken by the horror
and weight of sin and begins to fear offending God by sin and being separated
from him. the human heart is converted by looking upon him whom our sins have
pierced:²⁷

PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY

SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER TWO THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
  - Article 4 THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE AND RECONCILIATION
    - IV. Interior Penance

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team