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The sure test of the quality of any supposed change of heart will be found in its permanent effects. Whatever, therefore, may have been our inward experience, whatever joy or sorrow we may have felt, unless we bring forth fruits meet for repentance, our experience will profit us nothing. Repentance is incomplete unless it leads to confession and restitution in cases of injury; unless it causes us to forsake not merely outward sins, which others notice, but those which lie concealed in the heart; unless it makes us choose the service of God and live not for ourselves but for Him. There is no duty, which is either more obvious in itself, or more frequently asserted in the Word of God, than that of repentance.
Charles Hodge

    • Canon Of The Mass

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    Canon Of The Mass

    CANON OF THE MASS

    BASIC R.C. BELIEF The part of the Mass between the Preface (although some Missals designate the Sanctus as the beginning) and the Pater Noster, so called because the Church has decreed that this portion be according to a strict formula with only slight variations at special seasons. Specific prayers are read, many signs of the Cross are made at specific places and bells are rung a number of times. This is the most solemn part of the Mass, including the actual consecration of the Host and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the form of the Host.

    POST VATICAN II This part of the Mass is kept intact in the New Mass, but simpler. Some Roman Catholic commentators now refer to only the Eucharistic Prayer as the Canon.

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