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I just realised today how beautiful confession is.
People outside the church, and some even in it, might hold this fearful, or condescending view of it- “How can you confess to a priest?”; etc.
I realised today how much confession shows about the Church- and therefore in turn, about our God.
We come before our God; wait to go in- and look at him hanging on the cross. That was his gift to us- himself- as we receive in the Eucharist.
He wants us to receive Him- but to be worthy, we must receive the other sacraments he has given us.
Mary watches as he gives his life up for us, that we might be forgiven. All we need to do is come to him. If we don’t observe this- how can we possibly want or deserve the other sacrament- the most precious one of all- the Eucharist?
He died that through him, our sins are forgiven.
The sacrament of reconciliation leaves us peaceful, knowing we are forgiven. His church receives us and forgives us, time after time. We keep on falling- and we keep on going back- and again, it forgives us- again, and again, and again.
We might call someone in a secular environment ‘a mug’ to keep forgiving someone who keeps on offending…In God’s church, that is true love.
Mary watched her Son die. As we come to confession, we are re-assuring her- it was not in vein!
People outside the church, and some even in it, might hold this fearful, or condescending view of it- “How can you confess to a priest?”; etc.
I realised today how much confession shows about the Church- and therefore in turn, about our God.
We come before our God; wait to go in- and look at him hanging on the cross. That was his gift to us- himself- as we receive in the Eucharist.
He wants us to receive Him- but to be worthy, we must receive the other sacraments he has given us.
Mary watches as he gives his life up for us, that we might be forgiven. All we need to do is come to him. If we don’t observe this- how can we possibly want or deserve the other sacrament- the most precious one of all- the Eucharist?
He died that through him, our sins are forgiven.
The sacrament of reconciliation leaves us peaceful, knowing we are forgiven. His church receives us and forgives us, time after time. We keep on falling- and we keep on going back- and again, it forgives us- again, and again, and again.
We might call someone in a secular environment ‘a mug’ to keep forgiving someone who keeps on offending…In God’s church, that is true love.
Mary watched her Son die. As we come to confession, we are re-assuring her- it was not in vein!
