Sacrament of Reconciliation

I went for confession today with Father. I prepared a whole list of sins to tell him even though I just went for confession yesterday before Sunday mass, as I've deeply reflected the examination of consciousness of sins and realised I made many invisible sins that I thought weren't really sins. However, Father told me the sacrament of confession is not to tell a laundry list of sins but to strengthen your relationship with God. Hence, he asked me not to tell him the list but instead to have a chat. From the chat, I learnt that the sacrament of reconciliation is to enable us to be reconciled with God, to know him better and to strengthen our relationship with him, not so much of confessing our sins. Daily scripture reading enables us to know God better and is the only way we can know Him.

Father passed me a poem from his novice master. On the poem was a quote from Daniel 12:3 "The learned will shine as brightly as the vault of heaven, and those who have instructed many in virtue, as brightly as the stars for all eternity"

I learnt that only praying the bible will we be able to know and understand God more fully. The first two lines of the poem goes "Death is the last obeisance, If for some the first." Through death, we are all born into eternal life. Amen.

May the peace and love of God be with all of us.

Love,
Priscilla