Confession and Judgement Day

[james03]

What a gift that we have in Confession.  In it, we get judgement day over with.  Through confession, we embrace Truth itself, and so when we stand before Truth on the terrible day, it will be an old companion rather than the Wrath of Mighty Smiting.

Now consider a worm of a sinner.  Imagine a media reporter who uses trickery and rhetoric to cover for some pedophile.  He tells himself that he's just down with the cause, protecting some important person in the Bolshevik cause.  Or imagine Obama throwing a Rave on Martha's Vineyard, at the same time as telling people "mask up!".  Liars all of them.

Poor sinners, they do not realize that on Judgement Day, you stand naked.  All that is there is the Truth.  There are no excuses on judgement day.  All the BS, everything they tell themselves will avail them nothing, and they won't even attempt the excuse.  Instead the Truth, the complete Truth in all of its detail is the only thing that will be present.  They will convict themselves of their sin, and fleeing from the Most Glorious Eyes of Wrath, cast themselves into hell, knowing the Truth of their ugliness.

How blessed we are to have Confession.  We go in, and cough it up.  No excuses, we embrace the Truth, own our sins and we confess what we have done.  We get it over with, and then we are healed, washed clean by the Blood of Christ.

We truly are blessed to have confession.

[Heinrich]

Thank you. Motivating.

[Michael Wilson]

In the life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, our Lord sent her Bl Claude de la Colombiere S.J. To be her special guide and spiritual director; Fr. Colombiere was not certain about St. Margaret's visions and messages, so in order to ascertain their genuines (?), he asked St. Margaret to ask our Lord about a specific great sin that Fr. Colombiere had committed once; St. Margaret asked our Lord, and the reply came back: "I forgot". 

[KreKre]

All of the Sacraments are proof of how great God's love for us is. Through them we get a small glimpse of His infinite Majesty. Even though we are not as lucky as people in the first century who got to meet our Lord in person, He didn't leave us on our own, we can still get these wonderful gifts in abundance, that give us hope that we will meet Him in Heaven, face to face.

If we truly loved God as much as we could, that is, to the full capacity of charity He has created us with, we would all be saints, spotless like the Blessed Virgin. But so often, we wretched sinners love sin more than we love God, even when we fully know how disgusting and offensive sin is to Him. Even when Reason tells us that that any benefit or joy we might get from sin is nothing compared to the infinite happiness that comes from being pleasing in the sight of our God. The closest that devil ever got to victory was when he reminded our Lord in the olive garden of all mankind's sins, past, present and future. I can imagine him saying to our Lord: "Look at them, you fool! Is this the creature you are going to suffer and die for?" How tempted our Lord must have been at that moment to hate us, to just go back to Heaven to His angels who never displease Him, without spilling a single drop of blood for us, and to leave us to our own devices, to be forever among the damned spirits. Any other man would have succumbed to this temptation, by the mere thought of sacrificing one's life for this disgusting creature that appreciates nothing of it, and will keep sinning regardless...

Without His gifts, we would be nothing. We deserve nothing on our own merit, yet He still loves us.