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7 Secrets of Confession by Vinny Flynn

1. Your Sin Doesnt Change God
2. Its Not Just About Forgiveness
3. Your Sin is Different Than Mine
4. Confession is Never Really private
5. Confession is Never Really private
6. New Wine Needs New Skins
7. You have to let go of your chains!
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Your Sin Does Not Change God
God is love and thats what he does.
He doesnt turn away; He allows us to
turn away.
No sin is greater than Gods love.
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Its Not Just About Forgiveness
There are two sacraments of healing
Reconciliation
Anointing of the Sick
St. Faustina says we come to confession:
To be healed.
To be educated.
It is not an instant fix for sin.
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Your Sin is Different Than Mine
We cannot categorize sin as mortal and
venial strictly based on the action.
Sin does one of two things to us:
It wounds our charity (it weakens our
relationships)
It destroys our charity (it kills our relationships)
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Confession is Never Really private
Theres the priest.
Theres Christ
Theres the Father
Theres the Holy Spirit
Theres Communion of Saints
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Youve Got Mail
God is given you a gift (an e-mail) you can
choose to open it and use it, or not.
The gift was given 2000 years ago on
Calvary.
We can open it and use it so long as we
keep it in our inbox.
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New Wine Needs New Skins
The goal of confession is new life, rebirth,
transformation, restoration of friendship, and
communion with God, so that you can begin
living in a whole new way, the way Christ himself
lives.
We must not think that it is a sinner, through his
own independent journey of conversion, who
earns mercy. On the contrary, it is mercy that
impels him along the path of conversion.
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You Have to Let Go of Your Chains
Lack of Faith
Idolatry
The Father Wound
Unforgiveness
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Closing Prayer
O Jesus, our great High Priest, Hear our humble prayer on behalf of
your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a
burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.
In their loneliness, comfort them In their sorrows, strengthen them In
their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the
soul is purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church,
they are needed by souls, they are needed for the work of redemption.
O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your sons
who are close to you because of their priestly ordination, and because
of the power which they have received to carry on the work of Christ in
a world which needs them so much.
Be their comfort, be their joy, be their strength, and especially help
them to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.
Amen.
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