The sacrament of reconciliation

Call it penance, confession, reconciliation: none of the names does it justice. But one good thing is the growing number who are now phoning for an appointment to sit with a priest to receive this channel of God’s love. For the essence of the sacrament lies in two friends who sit in mutual trust, quietly probing and exploring depths of personal life that are not shared with anybody else. The purpose? “Lord make me know you that I may know myself. Make me know myself that I may know you.”