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Show IM OO I JESUIT SPEAKS I ON COfESSIOl Third of Sermon Series Given As Part of Mission in Catholic Church The Sacrament of Penance" was the subject of a sermon bv the Rev i William P. Tierney, S. J., before a T large congregation in St. Joseph's 1 Catholic church last night. The ser - fees were part of the mission being held this week. Going bark to biblical days, Father Tierney told how Christ had repeated ly forgiven sin and quoted from the parables of the lost sheep and the good Samaritan and the cases nf Mary Magdalene and the thief on the cross. The parable of the Samaritan, he said, symbolizes the curing of spiritual dis ' ease. The power -to forgive sin. he t asserted wbs not stopped by tin as rension ot Christ as He lefl UCCi lOfSj His apostles In the Old Testament. Testa-ment. Cod dealt with men tlirnnch I men, the speaker continued, and adopted this method so that the work "uid be carried on by the church The basis for the present sacrament rf penance, Father Tierney said, was Found in the gospel of St. Matthew, i 16 19, "Whatsoever shall be bound in I earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever shall be loosed on earth Shall be loosed in heaven." The direct di-rect charge to the apostles is contained con-tained In the twentieth chapter oi St .John's gospel, "As the Father hath ni Me I also send " ou." From this: is drawn that through the succession succes-sion of the apostles, duly ordained priests must possess this power Quoting from the earliest writers of ihe church even to the first century with the intention of proving that con f -ion has been practiced continuous-Ij continuous-Ij ince the time of Christ, the missionary mis-sionary declared that there is no rec ord in history where the confession penitent has been revealed The Itev. Albert Wise, S. )., will ix.ik this evening on "The Eternal Penalty," a discourse on the Catholic doctrine of hell |