Agreed. I also like the advice of another priest that every Confession should be treated as your last one, because we have no guarantees as to our departure date.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Someone told me one day that he felt full of joy and confidence when he had been to confession. Someone else told me that he was still afraid. My reaction was that one good man could be made by putting these two together, for each of them lacked something in not sharing the feelings of the other. The same thing often happens in other things.”
– Blaise Pascal: Pensées
A holy priest once advised me to always pray each decade of the rosary as though I were to die at the end of the “Glory Be..” prayer.
His point: the Ave Maria states : “..Now, and at the hour of our death, Amen.” Take it seriously.
Or as Dr Johnson said: “The gallows doth wonderfully composed the mind.”