It might feel awkward to tell our sins to a priest. But the priest’s role is to act on behalf of Jesus, who desires more than anything to forgive us and offer us mercy. Priests hear so many confessions that you’ll never surprise or scandalize the priest. Priests are also bound by the sacrament to never reveal or even act on any knowledge they hear in confession.
Jesus wants us to experience confessing our sins to Him through His priest who, in the Sacrament of Penance, exercises the power of forgiveness that Christ gave the Church. He wants us to hear from another person that we are loved, that we are not bad, that we are forgiven. And He wants us to experience mercy and hear the words of absolution, of forgiveness, that restore us to life in Christ.
Learn more: realtrue.org
Up Next in Most Popular
-
Llena de Gracia
En esta sesión vamos a hablar sobre otro de los dogmas Marianos - la Inmaculada Concepción. Vamos a ver cómo la creencia de la Iglesia de que María fue libre del pecado original está relacionada a tres diferentes pasajes en las Sagradas Escrituras. También va a quedar claro que, dada la manera en...
-
Fifth Sunday of Lent - March 29, 2020
This week’s Gospel shows us Jesus wants us to let Him into all those places that have been rendered dead by sin. He wants to weep with us in his humanity, but also to reveal his divinity and bring about a total healing.
-
5.1 - Christian Leadership
Leonard DeLorenzo talks about how Christian leadership differs from the secular world, highlighting its distinctive mark: trust.
1 Comment