You're listening to the SSPX podcast and welcome to our fifth episode on the sacraments,

where Father David Sherry will join us to look at the sacrament of penance. Many people,

even non-Catholics, are familiar with the sacrament, but we'll take a magnifying glass to it today

so that we can understand more about what's going on. To do that, we'll start by looking at the

concept of sin itself. This may seem almost obvious, but sin

does exist. It's the whole reason for the sacrament. And then we'll take a look at the

two players involved, the penitent and the priest. What is Father looking for when he asks us

those questions in the confessional? And why do we have to do a penance afterwards? Aren't our

sins already forgiven? Father Sherry will walk us through the traditional

form of the sacrament of penance next. As we move forward in this series, we're looking for help.

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Now let's join Father Sherry for episode number five of our sacrament series right now.

Thank you. number five of our sacrament series right now. Father Sherry, thank you for joining us.

It is, we were just talking a little bit beforehand because our connection is not quite perfect today because it's snowing where you are.

Shocking. I'm shocked at snowing.

Anyway, thank you for joining us.

Today we are talking about the sacrament of penance.

And like we've done with previous episodes, we're going to be looking first at the traditional right of penance and then next week looking at the new right of the

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