"In the forgiveness of sins, both
priests and sacraments are instruments which our Lord Jesus Christ, the only
author and liberal giver of salvation, wills to use in order to efface our sins
and give us the grace of justification" Catechism of the Catholic Church 987.
We all can pray for few hours a day but when it comes to
forgiveness most of us are very careless and because of this we pierce
ourselves with unwanted sickness and problems.
Forgiving others or asking
forgiveness with others requires lots of humility from us and without being
humble it is not possible to say sorry for the mistakes we are doing.
Forgiveness is a sacrament
instituted by Jesus Himself after His resurrection and shared His authority
with His disciples so that they may also continue His mission on this earth.
We have to understand that the
authority to forgive sins was initially given to the disciples and from there
it has been passed on to the pope to cardinals to bishops to the priests. We
have to understand that every priest who hears our confessions is persona Christi
that means person in Christ. Priests are just instruments of God who are doing
their job tirelessly given to them by God.
Most of us have wrong understanding
that priest who is committing sins cannot forgive our sins but the truth is priest
is only sitting as instrument of the Lord but it is Jesus who is forgiving our
sins through them. Priest’s personal life doesn’t have anything to do with
forgiveness of our sins.
We as Catholics are very good in
attending Holy mass or retreat or novenas and when we ask Catholics when they
last went for confession and to our surprise most of them have not gone for
confession for at least 1 year or more. Without going for confession at least
once in 2 months it is impossible to live the life of Grace bless by God.
Date:
18:09:2020.
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