What does “admonition of sinners” – a spiritual work of mercy – mean? What criteria could we use in our judgement of sin, and how do we admonish the sinner using common criteria? This chapter attempts to answer these questions. In discussing these issues, within the scope of this book, the focus in this chapter will be the education of youth to the admonition of sinners as a spiritual work of mercy. There are three initial sections: the first of which attempts at a definition of sin drawing insight from Ignatian spirituality. Based on this definition, the following section explores the meaning of admonition of sinners. This second section relies much on the Biblical meaning of the spiritual act of mercy. In the third section, we go on to discuss the challenge of practising admonition of sinners given our initial remarks about relativism and our definition of sin itself. Every section of this chapter is useful for the formation of youth, however, the last section, the fourth, will point out some specific themes which could provide a framework for the education of youth. We begin with a definition of sin.
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