Why Go to Confession?

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Here is a very timely question and answer.

Why Go to Confession? (Part 1)

Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Bruno Forte

CHIETI, Italy, FEB. 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the first part of the pastoral letter for 2005-2006 written by Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, a member of the International Theological Commission, on the theme “Reconciliation and the Beauty of God.”

The rest of the letter will be published by ZENIT over the next few days.
Why Go to Confession?
Reconciliation and the Beauty of God

Together, let us try to understand what Confession is: If you really understand it, with your mind and heart, you will feel the need and the joy of experiencing this encounter, in which God, granting you his forgiveness through the ministry of the Church, creates a new heart in you, puts a new Spirit in you, so that you can live a life reconciled with Him, with yourself and with others, so that you also will be able to forgive and love, beyond any temptation to mistrust and weariness.

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contemplative:
Here is a very timely question and answer.

Why Go to Confession? (Part 1)

Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Bruno Forte

CHIETI, Italy, FEB. 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the first part of the pastoral letter for 2005-2006 written by Archbishop Bruno Forte of Chieti-Vasto, a member of the International Theological Commission, on the theme “Reconciliation and the Beauty of God.”

The rest of the letter will be published by ZENIT over the next few days.
Why Go to Confession?
Reconciliation and the Beauty of God

Together, let us try to understand what Confession is: If you really understand it, with your mind and heart, you will feel the need and the joy of experiencing this encounter, in which God, granting you his forgiveness through the ministry of the Church, creates a new heart in you, puts a new Spirit in you, so that you can live a life reconciled with Him, with yourself and with others, so that you also will be able to forgive and love, beyond any temptation to mistrust and weariness.

Read the rest of the article here
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I printed it off. Very good letter. Let us know when the next part is available.
 
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Thank you. I see there is one more part!
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The first part of the letter appeared Friday. The third part appears Monday.
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This is good stuff. I can’t agree with Archbishop Bruno Forte more. He knows what he is talking about.
 
This is good stuff. I can’t agree with Archbishop Bruno Forte more. He knows what he is talking about.
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Once I have all the parts I’ll merge them into one paper and hand them out to people (starting with family).
 
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7. Return to the Father’s House
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In relation to God the Father, penance presents itself as a “return home” (this is in fact the meaning of the word “teshuva” which the Hebrew uses to say “conversion”). Through becoming aware of your faults, you realize you are in exile, far from the homeland of love: You feel ill at ease, sorrow, because you understand that sin is a rupture of the Covenant with the Lord, a rejection of his love, it is “unloved love,” and because of this is also source of alienation, because sin uproots us from our true dwelling, the Father’s heart.
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It is then that we need to remember the house in which we are awaited: Without this memory of love we would never have the necessary confidence and the hope to make the decision to return to God. With the humility of the one who knows he is not worthy of being called “son,” we can decide to call at the door of the Father’s house. What a surprise to realize he is at the window scrutinizing the horizon because he has been waiting for a long time for our return!
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To our open hands, to the humble and repentant heart responds the free offer of forgiveness with which the Father reconciles us with himself, “converting us” in some way to ourselves: “While he was still at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him” (Luke 15:20). With extraordinary tenderness, God introduces us in a renewed way in the condition of sons, offered by the Covenant established in Jesus.
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…my favorite part…
 
Thank you for sharing this article. The author does an excellent job of communicating his love and enthusiasm for the sacrament.
 
Part 4 !!!

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The other voice is that attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who expresses the truth of a renewed life by the grace of forgiveness: “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace: Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love.” These are the fruits of Reconciliation, invoked and heard by God, that I wish all of you who read me. With this wish, which becomes prayer, I embrace and bless each one of you.
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Thank you Archbishop Bruno Forte! God’s love and blessing to you too!
 
With Easter approaching I will mark a good time on my calendar to go to confession at the start of lent and sometime during Holy Week. Marking it on my calendar somehow helps me recognize my need to go. I do the same for all my appointments so why not make the time in my life with the Greatest Doctor?
 
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