THE PAIN AND JOY OF REPENTANCE

BY SR. MARGRET KABASIZA CSC FROM FORT PORTAL DIOCESE .

True Repentance is one of the most painful of all mental, emotional and spiritual experience! But above all, it is also the most Joyful once the agony and pain above have been endured with world conditions the way they are. It behooves each one of us to look deeply inside our own minds and hearts to see if we have ever truly experienced both the pain and Joy of Repentance.

When we sin against God and our neighbors, we hurt them and our own sins in return hurt our souls and these wounds can only be healed by a visible and audible power of the ‘’Holy Spirit ‘through a priest saying ‘’by the power of the Holy Spirit I absolve your sins go in peace’’ Oh what a Joy!

Many Christians now days fear to go for confession especially to a priest they know both in and out and this has become the greatest obstacle in experiencing the Joy of Repentance and continue bearing guilt of sins forgetting that it is Jesus who speaks through priests “Jesus is there, He receives you with much love” exclaimed by Pope Francis (zenith.org, Feb19, 2014).

Only God forgives sins and exercises this divine power “your sins are forgiven”, by the virtue of divine authority he gives power to the priests to exercise in His name (CCC1441)

At this time, personal contact with a priest becomes a natural consequence. Nothing can take place of that meeting with a priest. When a mind that has been informed and a heart that has been stirred asks him whom God has given power to forgive sins and to utter these irreplaceable words which touch the heart of each repentant sinner. No man on his own relying on his own power can put another in touch with God “but he who is called by God himself” the priest.(Hebrews 5:4) and this is also an essential task of every priest to create this contact by the way he relates with Jesus, his people and the world around them.

Inconsequently I encourage all Christians to fall in love with sacrament of reconciliation especially during this Lenten season

   BY SR. MARGRET KABASIZA CSC

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