The Reality of Confession

The thing about Confession is it’s natural. That is, it’s Real. Most everything else we do with our sin is false and unnatural. We punish ourselves, justify our actions, and hide. Yet, in Confession — in opening ourselves to God, the Light — we expose the hypocrisy of our double life. In truth, we’ve been living a lie. Without Confession, Absolution, and Reconciliation we live a lie before God and Man as if it were Reality. In reality, no one is fooled — not our neighbor nor ourselves. And, let’s be real, certainly not God.