PENANCE... Prayer, Fasting, & Almsgiving!
* Prayer - to make up for the sins committed against God.
* Fasting - to make up for the sins committed by our own flesh.
* Almsgiving - to make up for the sins committed against our neighbor.
HEED THE REPEATED WARNING...
"I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance." (Luke 5:32)
"Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and do penance." (Apocalypse 3:19)
"Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance." (Job 21:2)
"Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 3:2)
"The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance." (2 Peter 3:9)
"I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3)
"Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin." (Ezechiel 18:30)
"But if the wicked do penance for all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my commandments, and do judgment, and justice, living he shall live, and shall not die." (Ezekiel 18:21)
"Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness; and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee." (Acts of Apostles 8:22)
"Let him do penance for his sin." (Leviticus 5:5)
"For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation; but the sorrow of the world worketh death." (2 Corinthians 7:10)
"And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
"Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts of Apostles 2:38)
"So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance." (Luke 15:10)
"Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes." (Job 42:6)
CALL TO ACTION: Pray, fast, and give alms!
Photo by Ahna Ziegler