{"id":2513,"date":"2010-09-20T11:39:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:39:49","slug":"confession-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/confession-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession: The Hidden Sacrament"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a lot about this sacrament of late. I feel I forgot to mention it in my last post<\/a>, and I happened on this post on The Anchoress<\/i> on Confession:<\/a><\/p>\n

Writes Mills:<\/b>
\n. . . we need to recover the use of the word \u201cconfession,\u201d while quietly dropping \u201cthe sacrament of reconciliation.\u201d We need to hear the blunt word, because, before everything else, we want to say, \u201cI did this and I\u2019m really sorry.\u201d That\u2019s the appeal of confession, the chance to get it all out in the open. To emphasize the result is a bit like renaming the emergency room the \u201chealing center.\u201d It\u2019s true, but not as helpful or as encouraging as you\u2019d think, particularly when you really have an emergency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emergencies. Sin makes you stupid.<\/a> When you are in a situation where you need graces, when you need to keep your wits about you, when you need a confessor<\/b> to help you through, this sacrament has so much to offer.
\nThe problem in my diocese is this (along with Confirmation) has become one of the scarcest sacraments. Of course you can request it. Yes, there’s a chapel that does Confession nearly constantly 25 miles away. But a 45 minute window on Saturday afternoon? Is that really enough?
\nWhy is this sacrament so brushed under the carpet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking a lot about this sacrament of late. I feel I forgot to mention it in my last post, and I happened on this post on The Anchoress on Confession: Writes Mills: . . . we need to recover the use of the word \u201cconfession,\u201d while quietly dropping \u201cthe sacrament of reconciliation.\u201d We… Continue reading Confession: The Hidden Sacrament<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","category-the-christian-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}