“SINS are forgiven by the Hoy Ghost. . . . Men discharge a ministry for the remission of sins; they do not exercise any power of their own. For they forgive sins not in their own name but in that of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost. They ask, the Godhead gives; the service is man’s, the reward is of the Power on high.”
~St. Ambrose: On the Holy Spirit, 3, 137.