{"id":27043,"date":"2012-06-21T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/confession-a-source-of-new-lif\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:40:36","slug":"confession-a-source-of-new-lif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/confession-a-source-of-new-lif\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession: a source of New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacrament of Confession (aka Reconciliation or Penance) is a source of a new life for the Christian. It sets the soul ablaze in the love of God. It radically re-orients your life anew.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Change is difficult; admitting that one is a sinner is the grace of God in action. It is only by God&#8217;s grace do we have the fortitude and courage to face our ugly self. Who wants to admit one is a sinner? Not many people. But when you realize that holiness is recognized in knowing who you are, that you are a loved sinner, and accepting the invitation to speak with Jesus Christ through the ministry of the priesthood, all is different.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The confession of sins helps us to confront our pride and our wrong-doing in a concrete, loving manner. This sacrament is nothing more, nothing less than taking the merciful hand of God.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Throw yourself onto the mercy of the Triune God. A little encouragement is here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themomentumstudio.com\/#!__sacraments-home\">this short video<\/a> on Confession.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacrament of Confession (aka Reconciliation or Penance) is a source of a new life for the Christian. It sets the soul ablaze in the love of God. It radically re-orients your life anew. Change is difficult; admitting that one is a sinner is the grace of God in action. It is only by God&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/confession-a-source-of-new-lif\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confession: a source of New Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2330,2332,2333,2129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}