{"product_id":"pardon-and-peace-cluny","title":"Pardon and Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 288 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sacrament of Penance\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a proof of love, evidence—if it were needed—that Jesus is “yesterday, today and the same for ever,” still “the friend of publicans and sinners, who came not to call the just but sinners to repentance.” Sadly, this proof is too often ignored, the Sacrament itself too little understood, too little appreciated. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePardon and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, Passionist Father Alfred Wilson addresses the roots of this problem, offering with candor and sympathy alike a complete and intensive consideration of the Sacrament, its formula and technique; the realities of mortal and venial sins; the role of conscience; the acts of attrition and of contrition; facts of scrupulosity and satisfaction; and, above all, the supreme grace of Confession—that it is Christ Himself who absolves sinners and restores them to the life of grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfession is simply a Hospital of Souls, where the Good Samaritan, through the instrumentality of priests, goes about binding up wounds and pouring in oil and wine: a hospital where the Divine Physician displays His healing art.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAlfred Wilson, C.P.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1947,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePardon and Peace\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas immediately received as a brilliant guide to Confession. Among its devotees was Caryll Houselander, who described its author as magnificently understanding and its pages as an effective prescription for all souls—the oversensitive, the sensitive, the scrupulous, and the hardened—with the central emphasis on the tremendous love and mercy of God, the Divine Physician whose hands bring healing.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52185744179481,"sku":"PARDON-CM","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/61UgDmzoFZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1775014541","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/pardon-and-peace-cluny","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}