- Examine your conscience
- Be sorry for your sins
- Have a firm resolve to avoid those sins in the future
- Confess your sins to a priest
- Satisfaction ~ fulfill your penance
Jesus
said to his apostles, “Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven
them.” That’s why we go to the priest to have our sins forgiven.
Because Jesus said so.
Often
pride, laziness, or fear hold us back from Confession, but it’s the
devil who really gets in our way. A good, sincere, and contrite
Confession brings enormous joy and peace to a soul. How could it be
otherwise? Because in the Sacrament of Reconciliation we encounter Our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his Most Merciful Heart!.
Rev. Francis J. Hoffman, JCD