Pastoral Resources

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Acting is a form of confession.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

My whole act is confession.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.