Gently does it
The sacrament of RECONCILIATION
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sacrament of reconciliation
St Pio, Capuchin priest
ST PIO, great Capuchin priest
Known to have directed countless souls to our Lord
Through the Sacrament of Reconciliation
ST PIO, wonderful Sufferer for Christ
Known to have been tested and tried
Doubted and suspected of being a fraud
Perseverance was given you
ST PIO, loved by so many
Thanks be to God for the grace to suffer
Indeed this is the way of the true follower of Christ
The genuine Disciple of our Saviour
ST PIO, loved by those who love our Lord Jesus, and I choose to be counted, how can I ever say THANKS for showing us the way to the Heart of our Master and Teacher ?
St Pio speaks to us about confession
“Confession is the soul’s bath. You must go at least once a week. I do not want souls to stay away from confession more than a week. Even a clean and unoccupied room gathers dust; return after a week and you will see that it needs dusting again!”
Be reconciled
With joy do I go for my regular confession
Always mindful that to be reconciled is the best thing ever
For with the Lord there is always mercy and fullness of redemption
So too do the little ones go when the time comes
My little god son made his on 7 October his first confession
Such innocence! Such simplicity!
Truly we can be grateful
Always lift up both confessors and penitents daily
Regular confession makes one more conscious of one’s vulnerability
One’s need to be prepared for the unexpected
Death that comes knocking when least expected
If one knew, one would not need to be prepared
So it makes sense, does it not?
Praise the Lord for HIs goodness and kindness!
p.s. this is an acrylic which I did way back in 2005; and to me it looks rather incomplete – like the penitent who needs regular confession, right?
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
O how very blessed, how very blessed the church is
Jesus says whose sins you forgive they are forgiven
and so we have the Sacrament of Reconciliation
And I am grateful to be able to go regularly
and to be able to receive the grace
so freely
so joyfully
so hopefully
so confidently
What would happen if there was a limit to one’s confession?
What would happen indeed?
I shudder to think that it can be so
No, it cannot and that is why it is so easy
to take things for granted
to grow careless of the Sacrament
Come next weekend the little ones aged around nine
will have to make their first Holy Reconciliation
May God bless them to receive the grace
of always leaning on the Lord
Counting on his mercy and abundant goodness
being faithful to the end
The beautiful hands of a priest
It is common knowledge that the hands of a priest are very important. With his hands he holds up to us the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist, and with his hands raised high, he absolves us from our sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation; the hands of a priest are indeed beautiful for the work that they do. Here the saint Padre Pio is known for the wounds of Christ on his hands. See the brown mittens. More than a decade ago, in one of my very first retreats an overseas visiting priest placed a mitten of St Pio over my head and prayed for me. He did the same for the other ladies present. We had been commissioned to be mothers of our priests and our main duty was to intercede for all of them. Praise God!
