Beginning Again

For Catherine Doherty, the sacrament of confession is a sacrament of love, of being “kissed by Christ,” as she so often put it. “A sick person goes to a doctor; so a childlike soul goes to Christ to be consoled, to be healed, to be forgiven. It is like a lover running into the arms of the Beloved.”

“When you hear the words of absolution fall on your ears, it is like salve on your wounds. The forgiveness of God envelops you like a mantle, for the confessional is the altar of mercy.”

“Every moment is the moment of beginning again.”