“We can never be religiously smug, like the bad pharisee of the gospel story, ticking away the sins we have not committed, in order to tell the Holy One that we are best of men and women…”
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Confession, reconciliation and Divine Mercy (Sunday II of Easter)
“…let us meditate today on the power of Divine Mercy, Christ’s call to repentance, the agency of the Christian priesthood in this, and the endless love of the heart of God our Lord.”
Reading through the letter of S. James
The first bishop of Jerusalem, Saint James the Just, was greatly honoured during his lifetime, by Christian and Jew alike. The tradition of the Church speaks through S. Jerome who quotes an older description of him thus: “After the apostles, James the brother of the Lord surnamed the Just was made head of the ChurchContinue reading “Reading through the letter of S. James”
Confessions at Louth
“…an hour of Confessions heard on Saturday mornings and about a half hour before every Sunday Mass.”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 