This is RCT number 73, the history of confession.

RCT stands for the Roman Catechism of Trent.

Today we are in pages 300 to 304.

This is the Sacraments, Episode number 25.

God grant you his peace and nominipatri Sifiri at Spiritu Santi. Amen.

O heavenly king, Comforter, 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, and nomadi Patti, Sifidi, at Spiti T speedy to santi, amen. Okay, I'm calling today the

history of confession, and we are going to cover quite a bit more than that today, but I at least

want to start off by telling you when the sacrament of confession started. As most of you know,

it started with Jesus giving it to the apostles, but we're

going to give scriptural proof of that, and we're going to very briefly look at a few changes to it in the

early church that a few of you may already know. Now, we know from John chapter 20, verse 23, that Christ gave

the sacrament of confession to the apostles right after his resurrection as he said to them, as he

breathed on them rather, and said, if you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them.

If you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld. Or the Deweirames Bible says,

whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain,

they are retained. Okay, now what does retain mean well it means

that we priests have the right and even the duty at times to deny absolution if it's obvious to us

that the penitent is not sorry or at least we should delay absolution in the most merciful way. Now, let's look at history

again. Some Protestants say that line from John chapter 20, if you forgive the sins of any, they are

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