PENANCE
What Is Penance?
The Sacrament of Penance is also known as the ‘Sacrament of Reconciliation’ or traditionally called ‘Confession’. It is the rite by which sins are confessed and forgiven. Sin is failure to recognise and love God in the way we think or act. Sin is also not just a failure to love God directly but also a failure to love one another. This is referred to as “the community sense of sin”.
Absolution
In this sacrament people are forgiven their sins by the words and actions of the priest. We call this ‘Absolution’. The priest represents God and the community who is affected by sin and the priest ministers forgiveness on behalf of God and the community.

FORMS OF CELEBRATION
The sacrament can be celebrated in a one-to-one encounter with a priest: this is known as ‘individual confession’. This usually takes place in a confessional. Many parishes also organise ‘Penitential Services’ at special times; e.g. Advent, Lent and Parish Missions. In this form of celebration, which is communal, people prepare as a community and many priests hear the confessions individually, but usually openly. Participating priests are positioned at various points around the church to hear confessions. This communal form usually takes away some of the fear which used to be associated with the dark confessional and brings the celebration of the sacrament to a community act of faith. A great sense of solidarity is experienced through the celebration of this communal form of the sacrament.
Penance
Penance is a sign of sorrow and a commitment to try to make amends. It is also a sign of our sincerity to change our lives. This is what is meant by conversion. When the Sacrament is a communal celebration, the penance is said as a community, once all have had the opportunity to confess. When celebrated in the traditional one-to-one form, a penance is given and the person takes on that penance privately.
Who?
Any person who has been baptised and prepared appropriately can celebrate this sacrament.
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Address:The Sacristy, Church of the Resurecction, Knockpogue Avenue, Farranree, Cork, T23 NV97
Office Hours:Monday-Friday 9am -11.30am
Monday night by appointment 6.30pm – 7.30pm
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Sunday: 10.30 am
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Working Holydays: 10.30 am
Eve of Working Holydays: 6.30 pm Vigil
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Side chapel open for private prayer daily after 10am Mass
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