This is RCT number 42, The Forgiveness of Sins Part 2. RCT stands for the Roman Catechism of Trent.

Today we are on pages 120 to 123. This is the creed, Article 10, Section B. God give you his peace,

and nominate patrice, Sifidi, and Spiti to Santee, Amen.

Heavenly king, comfort or spirit of truth,

who are everywhere present and fillest all things,

treasury of good things and giver of life,

come and dwell in us,

and cleanse us of all impurity

and save our souls, O good one.

In Omni Pachi, Sifidi, et spiti to Santi, amen.

The power communicated to none before Christ.

This wonderful and divine power was never communicated to creatures until God became man.

Christ, our Savior, although true God, was the first one who, as man, received this

high prerogative from his heavenly father, that you may know that the son of man hath power on

earth to forgive sins, then said he to the man sick of palsy, rise, take up thy bed and go into

thy house. See Matthew chapter 9 and Mark chapter 2.

As therefore Christ became man in order to bestow on man this forgiveness of sins,

he communicated this power to bishops and priests in the church, previous to his ascension into heaven,

where he sits forever at the right hand of God.

Christ, however, as we have already said, remit sin by virtue of his own authority,

all others by virtue of his authority delegated to them as his ministers.

If, therefore, whatever is the effect of infinite power claims our highest

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