[Mrs. Don-o]

I checked: somehow I never saw this reported by our alert pope-watchers at Free Republic.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I was in the hospital deathly ill when Pope Francis gave this talk on Confession (2/19/2015). It appears to have passed unremarked at Free Republic, so I knew you’d appreciate seeing it now.

[Dr. Thorne]

Lucky me! I can boldly approach the Throne of Grace and confess my sins directly to Jesus instead of some celibate (yeah, right), dress-wearing weirdo who has a fetish for hearing other peoples’ peccadilloes while never admitting his own. I can do that because the Holy Spirit told us through Paul the Apostle that we have one High Priest, Jesus Christ the Righteous (Hebrews 4:15).

[Romulus]

It shouldn’t have to be news when a pope encourages Catholics to be Catholic.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank you for posting this.

[piusv]

I happen to remember this but maybe it wasn’t here.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for this posting and God Bless.

[Elsie]

“But our sins are also against the brothers, against the Church, and for this it is necessary to ask forgiveness to the Church and to the brothers, in the person of the priest.”

Psalm 51 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

 

1 Unto the end, a psalm of David,

² When Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bethsabee.

³ Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

⁴ Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

⁵ For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.

⁶ To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words and mayst overcome when thou art judged.

⁷ For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

⁸ For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

⁹ Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

¹⁰ To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

¹¹ Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

¹² Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

¹³ Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

¹⁴ Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

¹⁵ I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

¹⁶ Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

¹⁷ O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

¹⁸ For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

¹⁹ A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

²⁰ Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

²¹ Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

 

 

(You Prots may know it as Psalm 51)

 

 

 

[Karl Spooner]

Thanks for the ping. I see no reason to not wish you a speedy recovery. Christ would be disappointed in me if I didn’t have a kind word for you.