first confession
Childhood penance debut
First confession is the initial sacrament of penance in the Catholic Church, typically received by children around age seven or eight.
The child confesses sins to a priest for the first time, receives absolution, and is assigned a penance.
It usually occurs shortly before First Communion: She was nervous before her first confession.
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- venial sinLesser Catholic transgression
- sinViolation of divine law
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
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- confessionabsolution, admission, acknowledgment, declaration, statement
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Sacrament for the dying
confirmation · final confession · deathbed confession · holy orders · baptism
first confessionstate of grace
Freedom from mortal sin
impenitence · absolution · forgiveness · reconciliation · hardness of heart
first confessiondenial
Refusal to accept reality
cover-up · secrecy · silence · suppression · concealment
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