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Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness

Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

- St. Peter, Acts of the Apostles 3:19, c. 30

Give me strength, O God, to expiate my offenses, to overcome my temptations, to subdue my passions, and to acquire the virtues proper to my state.

- Clement XI, A Universal Prayer, c. 1715

There is, alas, a spirit of hedonism abroad today which beguiles men into thinking that life is nothing more than the quest for pleasure and the satisfaction of human passions. This attitude is disastrous.

- John XXIII, Mater et Magistra, May 15, 1961