Reconciliation

Reconciliation is available at 7:30 am Monday through Saturday before 8:00 am daily Mass and Saturdays from  8:45-10:00am and  4:00 – 5:00pm. It is also usually offered Wednesdays before the first Friday of the month at 7 pm.  During Lent and Easter, additional times are scheduled for the sacrament.  You may also call the parish office (765.452.6021) to schedule an appointment with a priest for Reconciliation.

Those who approach the sacrament of Penance obtain pardon from God’s mercy for the offense committed against Him, and are at the same time reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins and which by charity, by example, and by prayer labors for their conversion.

What is this Sacrament called? It is called the sacrament of conversion because it makes sacramentally present Jesus’ call to conversion, the first step in returning to the Father from whom one has strayed by sin.

It is called the sacrament of Penance, since it consecrates the Christian sinner’s personal and ecclesial steps of conversion, penance, and satisfaction.

It is called the sacrament of confession, since the disclosure or confession of sins to a priest is an essential element of this sacrament. In a profound sense it is also a “confession” – acknowledgment and praise – of the holiness of God and of his mercy toward sinful man.

It is called the sacrament of forgiveness, since by the priest’s sacramental absolution God grants the penitent “pardon and peace.”

It is called the sacrament of Reconciliation, because it imparts to the sinner the love of God who reconciles: “Be reconciled to God. He who lives by God’s merciful love is ready to respond to the Lord’s call: “Go; first be reconciled to your brother.”

For more information see: CCC 1422-1498