Pope Francis said, “Confession is an encounter with Jesus whose mercy motivates us to do better.”
“The penitent, like the priest, takes on the role of the listening church in the sacrament. The priest, in response to the penitent’s woundedness, applies a preliminary medicinal ointment in the form of words of comfort, consolation, encouragement and counsel.
This preliminary anointing prepares the penitent for the words every broken soul longs to hear. The penitent’s posture of listening is crowned with the transformative words of absolution. With those words, the hearer is healed.” [Confession is the church’s ‘listening place’, by Louis Masi, America Magazine]
Make the time to encounter Jesus in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
May God Be Praised.
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