“Jesus will show us where we need to repent and grow in virtue. He invites us to be healed.” – Christine Hanus
“Walking past the couple, my mother heard the woman say she no longer went to confession because she couldn’t think of any sins to confess.”- Christine Hanus
“Confessing regularly doesn’t just help us fight temptations and the enemy of our souls. It helps us love.” – Christine Hanus
“Here we can enter a gray area between venial sin, for which we are in some way directly responsible, and what spiritual writers call “imperfections,” for which we are only remotely responsible, if at all.” – Fr. John Bartunek
“Confession and spiritual direction are like partially overlapping circles: they share some common characteristics, but their centers, their essences, are distinct.” – Fr. John Bartunek
“For confession to really heal, it is necessary to go deeper. It is necessary to examine the deeper drives and motives of sin; to examine not only what I have done, by to ponder why.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
We have been taught in our catechism that the seven sacraments are the principal channels of God’s grace to us His children in His Mystical
Do Penance 1. “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” It was thus that “Jesus began to preach” (Matt. 4:17). And thus,
Confession and spiritual direction are like partially overlapping circles: they share some common characteristics, but their centers, their essences, are distinct.
What is the benefit of a Life Confession?