{"id":817,"date":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/04\/because-confession-puts-us-back-together\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:36:12","slug":"because-confession-puts-us-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/04\/because-confession-puts-us-back-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Confession Puts Us Back Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y5n3q_AEryw\/TZtmUXsr_QI\/AAAAAAAABmM\/7iH5E8d_Shc\/s1600\/Marc+Barnes.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y5n3q_AEryw\/TZtmUXsr_QI\/AAAAAAAABmM\/7iH5E8d_Shc\/s200\/Marc+Barnes.jpg\" width=\"136\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Does everyone remember \u201cThe Kid?\u201d That\u2019s what I call Marc Barnes who blogs over at <a href=\"http:\/\/badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/video-competition.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>BadCatholic<\/i><\/a>. Yes, the one with the blog with a photograph of nuns lighting up smokes. Marc is a gifted writer, and he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/because-believe-it-or-not-its-easy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a guest post for me once<\/a>. He also has a talent for making videos.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, I shared the video that Marc made about the <i>March for Life<\/i> with you. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeminorityreport.com\/2011\/01\/great-joyful-march-for-life-video.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It went viral<\/a> (sort of), as well it should have. It is that good!<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br>About a month ago, I got wind of a little \u201cmake a video about Confession\u201d contest for an <i>All Day Confession Event<\/i> being held in the <a href=\"http:\/\/i-confess.com\/?p=34\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Archdiocese of New York<\/a>. Scholarship money is on the line for the winner of the contest. But for the rest of us, hearing and sharing a message that may save eternal lives is what\u2019s on the line. <\/p>\n<p>The first person that popped into my head when I learned of this contest was \u201cthe Kid.\u201d I sent him a note saying, \u201chey Kid\u2026make a video on Confession!\u201d As a result, his God-given talents were put to work and he created this fantastic one-minute video below.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it, share it, go to You Tube and \u201clike\u201d it, and more importantly\u2026believe it! Go.Be.Forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo Zulu Marc, and thanks!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-4960330994554307105?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does everyone remember \u201cThe Kid?\u201d That\u2019s what I call Marc Barnes who blogs over at BadCatholic. Yes, the one with the blog with a photograph of nuns lighting up smokes. Marc is a gifted writer, and he wrote a guest post for me once. He also has a talent for making videos. Back in January, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36,41],"tags":[24,50,30,13,72,12],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-living","category-praying","tag-beauty","tag-goodness","tag-moviestv","tag-personal-history","tag-sacraments","tag-truth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Because Confession Puts Us Back Together<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Does everyone remember &quot;The Kid?&quot; That&#039;s what I call Marc Barnes who blogs over at BadCatholic. 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