Rembrandt van Rijn, "Ka hoʻi o ke keiki hoʻohilahila"; c.1662
OF papa, hiki i kekahi ke noi i ke Akua pono e kala aku i nā lawehala a kekahi, a nāna nō e hāʻawi (hāʻawi ʻo ia, kala mākou i nā poʻe ʻē aʻe. Maʻemaʻe ʻo Iesū ma kēia.)
Akā ʻo kēia kahi e pono ai ka Sakaremeta o ka hōʻoia. No ka ʻeha, ʻoiai ʻaʻole ka hoʻokahe koko, e maʻi paha me "self". Kuhi ka confession i ka puss o ka haʻaheo i ka papa kahi o Kristo, i ke kino o ke kahuna (Ioane 20: 23), holoi iā ia a pili i ka lāʻau hoʻōla a ka Makua ma o nā huaʻōlelo, "… Na ke Akua e hāʻawi mai iā ʻoe i ke kala ʻana a me ka maluhia, a e kala aku wau iā ʻoe i kāu mau lawehala…." ʻO nā lokomaikaʻi ʻike ʻole ʻia e ʻauʻau i ka ʻeha ma ke ʻano me ka hōʻailona o ke keʻa - pili ke kahuna i ka ʻaʻahu o ke aloha a ke Akua.
Ke hele ʻoe i kahi kauka lapaʻau no kahi ʻoki maikaʻi ʻole, hoʻopau wale ʻo ia i ke kahe ʻana o ke kahe, a i ʻole ʻaʻole ʻo ia e humuhumu, hoʻomaʻemaʻe, a ʻaʻahu i kou ʻeha? ʻO Christ, ke Kauka Nui, ua ʻike mākou e pono ai i kēlā, a me ka nānā hou aku i kā mākou ʻeha ʻuhane.
No laila, ʻo kēia Sakrameta kona mea hoʻōla i kā mākou lawehala.
ʻOiai ʻo ia i ke kino, ʻaʻole hiki i ke kanaka ke kōkua akā loaʻa i kekahi mau hewa māmā. Akā mai hoʻowahāwahā i kēia mau hewa a mākou e kapa aku ai he "mālamana": inā ʻoe e lawe ia mau mea no ka mālamalama ke kaupaona ʻoe, haʻalulu ke helu ʻoe. Hana kekahi mau mea māmā i ka nui; piha ka heluna o nā kulu i kahi kahawai; hana ka huina hua i kahi ahu. He aha hoʻi ko mākou manaolana? Ma mua o nā mea āpau, ka haʻi ʻana. —St. Augustine, Catechism o ka Ekalesia Katolika, n. 1863
Me ka ʻole o ke kūpono kūpono, koi ʻia ka hewa o ka hewa o kēlā me kēia lā (hewa venial) e ka Ekalesia. ʻO ka ʻae ʻana i kā mākou mau hewa ākea e kōkua iā mākou e hana i ko mākou lunamanaʻo, e kaua aku i nā hana hewa, e hoʻōla ʻia mākou e Kristo a holomua i ke ola o ka ʻUhane.—Catechism o ka Ekalesia Kakolika, ʻaʻole. 1458
