Tag: Confession
Friday Frivolity: Crisis at the Confessional
C.S. Lewis on Confession
In my recent appearance on The Catholic Man Show, I mentioned that C.S. Lewis went to weekly confession to an Anglican priest. I thought I’d share one of his letters today where he points out the value of confessing our sins out loud:
…there is the gain in self-knowledge: most of [us] have never really faced the facts about ourselves until we uttered them aloud in plain words, calling a spade a spade. I certainly feel I have profited enormously by the practice.
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Not only is Confession biblical, it’s also good psychology 🙂
Friday Frivolity: Post Confession
Friday Frivolity: Confession
TEA: God’s Mercy, Freely Received, Freely Given
I was back at St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Los Angeles this past week. On this visit I was speaking to their Confirmation group about the Sacrament of Confession and more broadly on the subject of mercy.
The group was in quite a wide semi-circle, so I walked around quite a bit so the microphone couldn’t always pick up all the audio perfectly, but here you go…
God’s Mercy: Freely Received, Freely Given (Download)
I’ve been saying this for years…
I’ve been saying this for years… More confession, more ice-cream!