With Easter just around, Confession should have our Lenten attention. Most parishes will have a communal penence service. I know mine has about 20 priest attending and the lines are still quite long?
That's good news..
B16 talks on the Confession:
Confession brings us the joy of God’s forgiveness, says the Holy Father
Vatican City, Mar 7, 2008 / 11:25 am (CNA).- In one of several audiences today, Pope Benedict XVI addressed members of the Apostolic Penitentiary on the state of Confession and lamented that today the world “is losing the notion of sin”.
The Pope made his remarks to a group of prelates that is participating in a week-long seminar on the “internal forum”, that is to say, questions of conscience.
“What is needed today is to ensure that people who confess experience that divine tenderness for penitent sinners which so many Gospel episodes express with intense emotion", he told the priests.
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