Choose a topic from Part 3 Suppl:
1. Contrition as a part of penance is asupernatural sorrow for sins, stirred up in the heart by the willunder grace, with a view to confessing the sins, and makingsatisfaction for them.
2. Contrition, in so far as it is in the will and not inthe emotions merely, is an act of the virtue of penance.
3. Contrition is born of filial fear of God, and thusproceeds according to charity. Sorrow for sin which arises fromservile fear of deserved punishment is a less perfect sorrow; it iscalled, not contrition, but attrition. Attrition cannotturn into contrition, for these two types of sorrow for sin are notonly different in degree but different in kind. Attrition may giveplace to contrition, but cannot become contrition.
"Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for neither the court, professions, or labour, are any hindrance to the service of God."
St Philip Neri
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"Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good. "
St Philip Neri
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"As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers"
St Augustine
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