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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst Confession? First thing on a Saturday morning,\u00a0wearing pretty much just regular clothes, no party, no cake.<\/p>\n
Why don\u2019t we make a bigger deal out of this? Of all the Sacraments, why doesn\u2019t this one have white clothes? This is the once designed to clean them up. Soul-cleansing is what the whole Sacrament is actually about, but it\u2019s just whatever you\u2019re wearing.<\/p>\n
The longer I\u2019ve thought about it, the more I think we\u2019re missing something here.<\/p>\n
In every parish we\u2019ve ever attended, First Confession is treated as a step on the way to First Communion. It\u2019s one more thing on the to-do list instead of a very separate and distinct occasion.<\/p>\n
First Confession marks the end of the Infallible Innocence of Childhood, and the true beginning of the journey towards adulthood. From this moment forward, they cannot hide behind anyone else, but stand before the Lord taking responsibility for what they\u2019ve done, and what they\u2019ve failed to do, on their own tiny shoulders.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an awesome and a frightening moment, this end of baby-hood. It\u2019s a moment which deserves more recognition than a harried hour sucked out of a Saturday, on a day when nobody gets dressed up. Going to Confession for the first time represents a seismic shift in the faith life of Catholic children, and we ought to show it more respect than treating it as a minor way station on the rush to the Eucharist.<\/p>\n
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A few weeks back, our 8 year old made his First Confession. \u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until later that I began to wonder why it\u2019s not treated like a\u00a0bigger thing. It seems like it should be,\u00a0but it just isn\u2019t. I\u2019m not sure why. Baptisms have special white \u00a0clothes, big parties, and a special cake. First Communions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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