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by bcadmin | Oct 22, 2022 | Apostolic Penitentiary, Catholic News Service, confession, News, Reconciliation, Vatican | 0 |
Every year, for more than three decades, the Vatican tribunal dealing with matters of conscience has offered a course to help priests in their “ministry of mercy” as confessors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2022 | 2022, Columns, forgive us our trespasses, forgiveness, Lord's Prayer, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Forgive Us Our Debts", News, Randall Smith, Reconciliation, Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, rights v. duties, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
One way of getting at what is objectionable in certain forms of individualism is to think about our lives in…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Featured, God's forgiveness, News, Reconciliation, sacrament of reconciliation, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The sacrament of reconciliation “is not so much about our sins” as it is about God’s forgiveness, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Apostolic Penitentiary, Catholic News Service, confession, News, Pope Francis, Reconciliation, Vatican | 0 |
Confession helps the penitent and also the confessor, who has the opportunity to be like the father of the prodigal son and experience the joy of seeing a child return home, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2022 | confession, Faith, Knowing the Faith, Mercy, News, penance, Reconciliation, Sacraments, sin, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation a few weekends ago. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up Saturday morning.…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2022 | Featured, Lent, Meditations for Lent, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Reconciliation, repentance, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Consider the old saying: “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted?” And you, sinning soul, “you have played the harlot with many lovers” (Jer. 3:1). It is not I who have left you, says […]
by bcadmin | Jan 27, 2022 | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, confession, Divine Physician, Faith at Home, Good Shepherd, Jesus, judge, Light of the World, News, Prince of Peace, Reconciliation, Sofia Cavalletti | 0 |
When I made my first confession, I clutched an index card with sweaty palms. On one side, I’d copied the act of contrition, dutifully memorized — but what if I tripped up in the heat of the moment? On the reverse was a detailed list of my sins, anxiously scribbled lest I miss one.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Cyprus, Greece, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Reconciliation, Turkey | 0 |
Since 1974, the island nation of Cyprus has been divided between a Turkish north and a Greek south, the uneasy result of a coup d’état by a Greek military junta and a subsequent invasion by Turkey.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2021 | confession, Faith, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Reconciliation | 0 |
Q: I admit I have not been to confession in many years and am no longer sure I know how to properly avail myself of the sacrament. Would you please review how one should go to confession? A person should always begin with a good examination of conscience. We need to hold up our lives […]
by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | courage, Faith, Featured, God, integrated life, Jesus Christ, Love, men, Men of Faith, News, Prayer, pride, Reconciliation, sin, surrender, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
As long as we live in the world our life is a constant struggle between love for Christ or giving into lukewarmness, to our passions, or to comfort-seeking, which destroys love. Faithfulness to Christ is forged each day by struggling against what separ…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2021 | Best of Week, confession, Featured, News, Orthodoxy, Reconciliation, Sacraments, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Experience the healing God wants to pour out upon you. Return to the intimacy of God in this treasured sacrament of the Church. Confess and believe in the glory of God!
by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2021 | Communion, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, forgiveness, News, Reconciliation, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Peter Julian Eymard | 0 |
The Eucharist, we may say, is Jesus establishing intimacy between man and God. But the mysteries of the close union Jesus forms with us in Communion!
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