The best thing I've found for overcoming is "Noah the Patriarch" Armenian brandy, XXX- 30 years old, at $45 a bottle. One 750ml bottle could suffice for 4-5 overcomings, and with the unsurpassed grace on the palate. It is truly uplifting, ad coelum levavit, as Michelangelo used to say [but he was more into Trebbiano].
Very funny!
Christ did not leave us orphans. On the contrary, He instructed the Apostles - "Whose sins you shall forgive are forgiven; whose sins you shall retain are retained."
There are no more beautiful words than to hear the priest say: "I absolve you of your sins, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
How's that workin' for ya?