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Sorrow for sin is one \u00a0thing, and our Lord did say, \u201cUnless you hate your own life you cannot be my disciple\u201d, but that\u2019s taking things a bit far.<\/div>\n

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It reminds me of one of the requests entered into the prayer request book at school, \u201cFor an end to abortion and my sister\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the children making their first confession made a mistake in the Act of Contrition and said, \u201cI firmly resolve,\u00a0with the help of Thy grace,\u00a0to confess my sins,\u00a0to do penance,\u00a0and to end my life.\u201d Sorrow for sin is one \u00a0thing, and our Lord did say, \u201cUnless you hate your own life you cannot be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nKids Say the Darndest Things<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the children making their first confession made a mistake in the Act of Contrition and said, "I firmly resolve,\u00a0with the help of Thy grace,\u00a0to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/04\/kids-say-the-darndest-things.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kids Say the Darndest Things\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the children making their first confession made a mistake in the Act of Contrition and said, "I firmly resolve,\u00a0with the help of Thy grace,\u00a0to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/04\/kids-say-the-darndest-things.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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