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The Case for Confession Excerpted from "The Case for Confession" by Father Kenneth Brown, published in the February 2005 issue of Liguorian. Reprinted with permission from Liguorian, One Liguori Drive, Liguori, MO 63057. Anyone who is in relationship with other people — and who isn't? — finds that forgiveness is something human beings desire. So what keeps us away from the sacrament of reconciliation? Parents who hope to be the best of religious educators for their children do well to examine honestly the barriers they imagine standing between them and their own reception of the sacrament of reconciliation. We have to remember that God, like an ever-loving parent, takes us just the way we are. Some people really want to receive the sacrament, but they let the time that has elapsed since they last received it stop them. But it is never too late to return to the sacrament. I recommend that we all go to the sacrament often enough so that when we really need the sacrament — its tenderness and its grace — it doesn't feel like an alien or strange experience. It should feel like coming home. All of us sin and need forgiveness. Ours is a God who heals, a physician who binds up our wounded hearts, a loving parent who forgives and embraces the child who has wandered off. How could we not want this for ourselves and all those we love? Father Kenneth Brown is pastor of Little Flower Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis for 28 years. This complete article is available as a $1 pamphlet entitled: Why Go to Reconciliation? Click here to order the pamphlet online. |
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