How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God - Softcover

Kane, Fr John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928832296 ISBN 13: 9781928832294

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press, 2001

Synopsis

How to make your Confessions less difficult and more fruitful.

If you still drag your feet about going to Confession, here's the help you need to enable you to overcome your reluctance and open your soul to the vast reservoir of mercy found in Confession.

This down-to-earth, practical guide shows you how to transform your confessions from embarrassing moments in a dark room into profound experiences of God's love. The author, Fr. John Kane, provides solid guidelines for how you can (and must) make the most effective possible use of the sacrament of Reconciliation. Even better, he shows you how to carry the grace of Confession into your daily life, so that you'll start winning - consistently - your battles against sin.

This is a book you can return to again and again in order to renew your sense of God's mercy - as well as to gain Fr. Kane's help in examining your conscience and bringing your life into greater conformity with the light of the gospel.

Get Fr. Kane's help to confess well and avoid sin:

• One truth you must realize, or you'll never drive sin from your soul
• Two reasons why God forgives sin, but still punishes the sinner
• Three characteristics of the truly forgiven sinner: do you have them?
• Your past sins: startling ways they can help you love God more today
• True repentance and its counterfeits: three ways to find the genuine article
• How to tell whether you're sorry for your sins - even if you don't feel sorry
• The embarrassment of going to Confession - how it can actually help you imitate Christ!
• The heavy price of your sins: no, you probably don't realize it, and yes, it's worse than you think
• Why hating sin does not mean hating the sinner
• Why true saints will always consider themselves sinners
• Sorrow for sin: how it deepens your compassion for others
• How to take advantage of Lent each year to overcome your sins
• And much more that will help you get more spiritual fruit out of Confession than you may even have thought was possible!

About this title

About the Author

Born in Philadelphia in 1883, John Kane attended St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania, and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1912. Fr. Kane was the first pastor in his archdiocese to introduce all-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. He initiated a weekly adult religion class in his parish. He died in 1962.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1928832296
• ISBN 13: 9781928832294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144