Wednesday, November 5, 2008
G. K. Chesterton, a British writer, converted to the Catholic Church in 1922 because he said he could not ignore the truth in its teachings, and he was attracted by the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where sins are forgiven. “It is almost a joke,” he says in his writings on conversion, “that it is only in a dark corner and a cramped space that any man can discover that mountain of magnanimity.”
In Thursday’s Jayplay, Heather Melanson wrote an article on her experience of an obsession with sin. The Catholic Church’s Sacrament of Confession is not solely to focus on one’s sins, though taking a few minutes at the end of each day to examine our actions and our failings teaches us to be better. No, the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us, “The whole power of the Sacrament of Penance consists in restoring us to God’s grace and joining us with him in an intimate friendship.”
Think about the person you love most in the world. If you hurt their feelings, how long would it take you to ask their forgiveness?
In this sacrament we ask forgiveness of God and he responds with an unimaginable, merciful love.
— — Emily Jaumard is a 2008 graduate from Lawrence.
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