This issue's quotes: The Seven Sacraments

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Jesus Christ gave to those who held authority in the Church the power to grant the discipline of penance to those who confess and, after they have been purified through salutary satisfaction, to admit them to the Communion of the Sacraments through the door of Reconciliation.

- St. Leo I the Great, Letter to Theodore, Bishop of Forum Julii, June 11, 452

The Sacrament of Penance is the masterpiece of God's goodness.

 - Pius XII, Menti Nostrae, September 23, 1950

The Christ who calls us to the Eucharist banquet is always the same Christ who exhorts us to penance.

 - John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis, March 4, 1979

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