confession of sins
Telling your wrongs
Confession of sins is the act of acknowledging wrongdoing, especially in a religious context.
In Catholic practice, confession occurs in a sacrament where a penitent privately tells sins to a priest and receives absolution.
Protestant traditions may emphasize confession directly to God.
The phrase also applies broadly to any admission of moral failures: His memoir was a confession of sins both personal and professional.
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- guiltMoral self-reproach
repentance · sign of the cross · contrition · booth · whisper · kneeling · rosary · Hail Mary · Catholic Church · atonement · shame · secret · guilty conscience · burden · soul · spiritual cleansing · cleansing · redemption
- Egyptian AfterlifeBook of the Dead, Pyramid Texts, Osiris, ba, Anubis
- LentAsh Wednesday, fasting, abstinence, almsgiving, forty days
- religious dutiesdaily prayer, religious fasting, hajj, zakat, salat
- sacramentsbaptism, christening, confirmation, communion, matrimony
- church serviceschurch service, weddings, high mass, funerals, communion
- Lutheran CatechismLuther, Martin Luther, Lutheran, Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer
confession of sinscover-up
Hiding wrongdoing from public
silence · suppression · evasion · stonewalling · lying
confession of sinsinnocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
blamelessness · sinlessness · purity · righteousness · clean conscience
confession of sinsself-righteousness
Smug moral superiority
self-justification · pride · boasting · self-exaltation · impenitence
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