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"DOING PENANCE FOR ONE'S SINS is a first step towards obtaining forgiveness and winning eternal salvation...No individual Christian can grow in perfection, nor can Christianity gain in vigor, except it be on the basis of penance". Bl. John XXIII, Paenitentiam Agere, 1.