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What is Confession?
The Sacrament of Penance allows for a conversion, a change of heart. In sin, we have broken our bond with God and His Church - Confession affords the opportunity to mend that break.
the sacrament of forgiveness
We are blessed in our Catholic Church to experience one of the greatest means of growing in holiness: the Sacrament of Penance.
Through this Sacrament, we receive God's merciful forgiveness of our sins, reconciliation with God and with the community of the Church and the grace to achieve conversion, that change of heart by which we truly repent and believe the Good News.
The sacrament is available to all, especially those who have not received this sacrament in a long time. Come back home to Jesus and to the Community of His Disciples, the Church. Do not be afraid!
What separates us is sin, our freely-willed lack of love for God, others and ourselves, expressed in a variety of ways.
As we are told in the Scriptures, “Come back to me with all your heart” (Joel 2:12).
Why Confession?
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came precisely for the forgiveness of sins and that forgiveness we experience in a most personal and real way when we are reconciled to Christ and to the Church in the Sacrament of Penance. There, through the instrumentality of the ordained priest, who represents both Christ and the Church, both of whom have been offended by our sins and who has been given power by Christ to forgive sin (cf. John 20: 22-23), we encounter Divine Mercy and are truly forgiven.
During his public life, Jesus both forgave sins and reintegrated the sinners into the community. This is the goal of the Sacrament of Confession: to forgive the sins and to provide reconciliation with the Church. To learn more about the Sacrament of Confession, visit here.
To listen to Fr. Jerome Magat's talk, "I Confess: Why Confess?" at Theology on Tap, visit here.
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