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THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE reason, but it is also found enjoined in numerous coun- sacred place is so ancient, that even the age of the them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are re- Penance when, after his resurrection, he breathed Church. [Session 13, Chap. 6.] tained. By which action so signal, and words so carefully reserving it for this purpose in Churches, God, who knoweth our frame, being rich in mercy, Council of Nicea recognised that usage. Moreover, as after baptism. to carrying the sacred Eucharist itself to the sick, and the death of Christ is applied to those who have fallen may, after baptism, have delivered themselves over to upon his disciples, saying : Receive ye the Holy The custom of reserving the holy Eucharist in a sacrament, to wit, of Penance, by which flhe benefit of not only is it exceedingly conformable to equity and Ghost ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven Chap. 7.] the servitude of sin and the power of the devil the clear, the consent of all the Fathers has ever understood, hath bestowed a remedy of life even on those who The Lord principally instituted the sacrament of 44 ROMAN CATHOLICISM RESERVATION OF THE EUCHARIST cils, and is a very ancient observance of the Catholic