The Best of Holy Father Francis

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Thank you Holy Father Francis for your concern and safety of the children migrating to the states. :kiss4you:🎉
 
I believe Our Religious leaders in America are getting Pope Francis’ direction for our Church. What wonderful harmony and unity we are witnessing.
 
Pope Francis: ‘Be Courageous, and Go to Confession’
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“Don’t be afraid of confession,” Pope Francis stressed. “When someone is in line for confession, he feels all these things, even shame; but then, when he finishes confessing, he leaves (feeling) free, great, beautiful, forgiven, clean, happy.”
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“The sacrament of reconciliation is a sacrament of healing,” he pointed out.
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“When I go to confession, it’s for healing: healing the soul, healing the heart, because of something that I did to make it unwell.”
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The Pope pointed to the biblical story of Jesus healing a paralyzed man, which expresses the “profound link” between “forgiveness and healing,” since “the Lord Jesus is revealed at the same time as the physician of soul and body.”
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He also recounted the Parable of the Prodigal Son, who sought his father’s forgiveness and was welcomed home with open arms.
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“But I say to you,” he stressed to the many pilgrims, “every time we go to confession, God embraces us.”
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