SunStar
+ December 20, 2020 A WRETCHED person that I had been for a long, long time, I used to dislike the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession and, naturally, had been wont to espouse the preaching of others that sins are better confessed directly to God. But I still would go to Confession, but rather rarely and reluctantly (although with true but short-lived penitence). It was much later in life that I realized the wisdom of the Sacrament that requires physical, emotional, intellectual and willful effort to manifest repentance (though in various levels). Regardless of incompetent and even stupid priest confessors who nevertheless represent Jesus Christ in the confessional, I now confess through a sacrament that, to a great degree because of the effort exerted to access it, gives assurance of true repentance within and, from above, definite forgiveness.