In God’s parental eyes, we are all children: prone to misbehavior and pride. And, like any good parent, God forgives—even the wildly imperfect Catholics like me who are reluctant to confess but who know that returning to this gift from God is essential. Difficult but essential.
Those seven words—so difficult to say but so cathartic when said—are the keys to true freedom: “Bless me, father, for I have sinned.”
—from St. Anthony Messenger’s “Fearing the Sacrament of Reconciliation“
by Christopher Heffron
