Reconciliation

Preparation for First Reconciliation is through the Religious Education Program.  For more information, please contact Laura Janas, 952-955-7810. Click Here for more information on First Reconciliation at Immaculate Conception.

The Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation (also known as the Sacrament of Penance, or Forgiveness or Confession) has three elements: conversion, confession and celebration. In it we find God's unconditional forgiveness, and as a result we are called to forgive others.

After his Resurrection, Jesus told the apostles,

"Whose sins you forgive are forgiven the, and whose sins you retain are retained" - (John 20:23)

"Those who approach the sacrament of penance obtain pardon from God's mercy for the offense committed against him, and are, at the same time, reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by their sins and which by charity, by example, and by prayer labors for their conversion." (CCC 1422)