PENANCE LIBRARY
The Penance
Library is maintained and continually updated
and enlarged by the Confraternity of Penitents,
a private Catholic association of the faithful
whose members live a Rule of Life
devoted to penance (conversion) as lay people in
their own homes. The Home page and Rule of
Life of the Confraternity of Penitents are
linked to in the above link bar.
Click on the
following links for articles on penance as they
relate to penance (conversion) in general and to the Rule of Life of the Confraternity
of Penitents in particular.
INDEX TO LIBRARY
NEW ARTICLES!
Hymn: Holy Spirit, God of
Wisdom
Entering into the New
Testament
APOSTLES
Saint Peter,
Apostle: Fisherman, Fisher of Men
BAPTISM
Baptism Explained
Catholic Teaching on Limbo and Infants Who Die
without Baptism
On the Meaning of
Christian Baptism by Pope Benedict XVI
CATECHISM
Compendium of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Available in print from from CFP Holy Angels
Gift Shop)
CHRISTMAS
Christian Meaning of
Christmas Symbols
Christmas and Easter Unleavened Bread
The Fast of Saint Martin
CHURCH FATHERS
Apostolic Fathers of the
Church
CLOTHING
Being
Inconspicuous as a Penitent
Head Coverings for Women
COMMUNITY
A
Mixed Bunch
CONFESSION
An Examination of
Conscience for Confession
Examination of Conscience, Repentance, and
Confession
CONVERSION
Passion of Christ, Conversion of Heart
DEACONS
Grateful for the Service of Deacons in the
Catholic Church
DISCERNMENT
Discerning between Groups That Live a Rule of
Life
DRYNESS
Ways
to Deal with Spiritual Dryness
EASTER
Christmas and Easter Unleavened Bread
ENCYCLICALS
Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love)
Spe Salvi (In Hope We Are
Saved)
EUCHARIST
Explaining the Eucharist to Children
Eucharist and True Communion
Eucharist: In Order to Live a Full Christian
Life
Final Message from the Eucharistic Synod
The Incarnation and the Eucharist
Listening to the Eucharist
Sacramentum Caritatis:
Eucharist, Sacrament of Love
FASTING
The Fast of Saint Martin
The
True Nature of Fasting
Why
Do We Fast?
FEAR
Have No
Fear
FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness from the Heart
Fraternal Correction
Penance and Forgiveness: Never Look Back
Reconciliation: An Open
Door
FRANCIS OF ASSISI (SEE SAINT FRANCIS)
GOD
"Explaining" the Resurrection of
Christ
On the Existence and
Meaning of Christ: A Five Part Teaching
Seeing
When You're Blind: Finding Faith When You
Don't Believe
Proof
for the Existence of God
GOSPELS
Blessed Is Our Nothingness
Because It Can Be Filled with the Spirit
HEALING
God's Healing at a Healing Service
HEAVEN
See also
Baptism for article on "limbo"
Our True Heaven
HOMOSEXUALITY
Homosexual Practices and the Bible
HOPE
Spe Salvi (In Hope We Are
Saved--Papal Encyclical)
HUMILITY
Palm Sunday: Victory of
Humility
Walk Humbly with Your God
What John the Baptist
Teaches about Joy and Humility
HYMNS
Hymn: Holy Spirit, God of
Wisdom
INDULGENCES
The Portiuncola Indulgence
JESUS (SEE ALSO GOD)
Was Jesus Who He Said He Was?
LENT
Day by
Day through Lent
Lenten Reflections on Isaiah 58: 1-12
Lent and Easter
Reflections 2005
See also
Meditations on Deus Caritas Est (Lent 2006)
under the LOVE heading.
See also
Passion of Christ, Conversion of Heart, under
the CONVERSION heading.
LOVE
Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love Papal Encyclical)
God Manifests His Love for
Us
Love of God, Love of Neighbor: A Reflection on 1
John 4:20
The Loves God Has for Us
Meditations on Deus Caritas Est (Lent 2006)
You Shall Love Your
Neighbor as Yourself
MARY
Blessed Are You Among
Women: A Meditation on the Hail Mary
The Holy Name of Mary
The Honor of Our Lady
Mary in High Definition
Mary, Model of Faith and
the First Believer
Mary, the Mother of God:
The Perfect Guide to Salvation
Mary, Woman to First Gaze
Our Lady's Message:
Have Courage to Dare with God
The Virgin Made Church
MASS
On the
Meaning of the Mass
MEEKNESS
Blessed
Are the Meek
MENTAL ILLNESS
God's Image in the
Mentally Ill
MERCY
Putting a Face to Mercy
Works
of Mercy: Penitents' Apostolate
MISSION
Christian Couch Potato?
OBEDIENCE
Christ's Obedience, Our Obedience
THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Meditations on the Passion
PEACE
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
PENANCE (see
also CLOTHING)
Fatima's Third Secret and a Life of Penance
Discerning a
Personal Vocation to a Life of Penance
Franciscan Penance in the
Confraternity of Penitents
Giving Penance a Good Name
Like a Lost Lamb
Penance as Vocation
Penance in the Catechism
of the Catholic Church
Penance, Pruning, and Purpose
Physical Penance in the
Post-Modern Age
The
Uniqueness of the CFP Rule
The Value of
Pledging to Live a Life of Penance
Why Is the Confraternity
of Penitents So Necessary in Our Modern World?
PLEDGE
What Will the Pledge and Vow Mean for You?
POLITICS AND RELIGION
Hope and Its Daughters
Lessons from Saint Edward
the Confessor
POPES
Peter, the Pope, and the
Bible (Biblical Basis for Papacy)
Pope
Alexander VI: What Was God Thinking?
POPES AND PENANCE
Apostolic Constitution of
Penance by Pope Paul VI
Civilization of Love by
Pope John Paul II
Penance and Reconciliation
by Pope John Paul II
Penance, Prayer, Eucharist
by Pope John Paul II
Tribute Page to Pope John Paul II
with Reflections on the Pope plus links to
Cardinal Ratzinger's Funeral Mass Homily, Pope's
Final Testament, Homily by Fr. Jerome Machar,
Reflection by CFP Visitor Father Jay Finelli,
Prayer for Intercession of Pope John Paul II
POVERTY
Education in Holy Poverty
PRACTICAL
INFORMATION
How to Prevent Identity
Theft and What to Do if Your Wallet Is Stolen
PRIESTHOOD
The Lord Makes the Priest His Friend
PRAYER
Litany to the Holy Ghost
Litany of the Most
Precious Blood
Novena to the Holy Spirit
The Patriotic Rosary
The Portiuncola Indulgence
Praise Prayer
Prayer for the Moral
Degradation of Our Country
Prayer for Our Confraternity Mission
Prayer to Know My Vocation
Prayer to Our Lady by Pope
Benedict XVI
Prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Stations of the Crib
Transitus (Death) of Saint Francis
(see also Rosary and Stations of the Cross
sections below)
REPARATION
Reparation and Love: From Me to Them
RETREATS (IN HOME)
A Forty-Day Retreat with
Saint Anthony of Padua
ROSARY
Rosary Meditations for
Mothers
SAINT FRANCIS ON PENANCE
Franciscan Penance in the
Confraternity of Penitents
St. Francis's Letters on
Penance
Saint Francis and a Life
of Penance
Understanding Penance in the Life of Saint
Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis' Prayers
Transitus (Death) of Saint Francis
SAINTS
The
Example of the Saints
Pope Benedict XVI's Lessons from St. Paul of
Tarsus
Saintly Quotes for the
Spiritual Life
Those Who Worked with Saint Paul
SEXUAL ABUSE
Pope Benedict's Letter to
the Irish People: Healing Clergy Sexual Abuse
SIN
Roots of and Remedies for
Sin
SONGS
See Hymns
SPIRITUAL
DIFFICULTIES
Building Blocks of the Spiritual Life
Dealing with the Devil
Facing the Fears about Dying to Self
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Five Sermons in
the Gospel of Matthew
Ways to Holiness: Charity,
Discipline, Forgiveness
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Cardinal Comastri's
Stations of the Cross
Cardinal Ratzinger's
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross for
Penitents
SUFFERING
Letter from One Penitent to Another (When to Cry
'Uncle'!)
The
Yoke of Faith
TRADITIONS
Christmas and Easter Unleavened Bread
St. Lucy's Wheat Planting
The Fast of Saint Martin
Tradition in the Catholic Church
VIRTUES
Blessed Are the Pure of
Heart: Hypocrisy vs. Purity
VOCATION
Also see Articles
under "Penance" Heading.
Franciscan Vocation: A Call to Poverty, Freedom,
Humility, Love and Joy
Prayer to Know My Vocation
VOWS (see also
articles under Pledge)
Vows in
the Roman Catholic Church
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