Beginning Again Vocation For Christ waits for us

For Christ waits for us everywhere now

it is about Christ

for the confessional is the altar of mercy

Print of the Blessed Chiara Luce icon by Madonna House member Marysia Kowalchyk

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Beginning Again Vocation For Christ waits for usFor 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