Tag: Confession

On this Divine Mercy Sunday, Tom Hoopes outlines several mistakes we make about mercy.  He begins by recounting two confessions where he made his own mercy mistakes. Photo Credit: Emilio Labrador https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

“Sometimes we need reminders of exactly what happens when God casts out evil.”

Here are a few of my favorite confession stories.

I will be forever grateful for the knock I heard on my dorm-room door in the fall of 1987.

The Year of Mercy and the message of Fatima complement each other perfectly.

Since age 17, he has been focused on meeting Jesus in the sacrament of reconciliation.

It is the Year of Mercy and Benedictine College is blessed to have a Holy Door on campus. Yesterday, walking to the Abbey to go to confession and pass through the door,

“The renewal of the Church in America depends on the renewal of the practice of penance.” – Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C. “The reception of this sacrament ought