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These Last Days News - March 22, 2011

45 Percent of Catholics Don’t Go to Confession...

"The young children must be taken by their parents to the temples--the Houses of My Son--throughout your world. They must learn by habit a good example of cleansing of their soul by confession. The good priests of earth, those who have been dedicated and received this consecration from My Son, must take these tender souls and nurture them in their Faith." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1975

Catholic Anchor Online reported on March 10, 2011:

Like lancing a boil or going to the dentist, the thought of going to confession stirs up powerful emotions in Catholics.

Some fear it. Others feel embarrassment. A great deal of anxiety seems to accompany  most Catholics before they enter the confessional. That anxiety keeps 45 percent of Catholics away from the so-called “lost sacrament,” according to a poll conducted in 2008 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate or CARA.

Yet for Catholic priests, including many in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, hearing confessions and giving absolution is one of the most rewarding aspects of their priesthood.

According to Dominican priest Father Vincent Kelber of Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, confession is a sacrament many do not truly understand.

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUND

“People are afraid to go to confession,” he admitted. “We allow ourselves to have misconceptions about it.”

The pastor of St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church Father James Barrand thinks the misconceptions are due to in part to a lack of proper teaching.

“There is a lack of formal catechesis on the types and serious effects of sins. Priests are afraid to discuss sins for fear of offending individuals, so our people’s understanding of sin or transgressions is formulated by pop culture,” he explained.

Father Kelber agreed and stressed the urgency of educating Catholics about the importance of the sacrament — breaking down false beliefs and fears.

“If you make it available and preach it, people will use it,” he said.

The biggest misconception Anchorage priests say they hear about the sacrament is the idea that people need only go directly to God for forgiveness and skip the confessional. The error in this belief lies in the difference between forgiveness and absolution, Father Kelber explained.

HEALING THROUGH ABSOLUTION

He said that a deep transformation occurs in confession “where the Holy Spirit enters into a person for true healing.”

Father Barrand agreed and quickly pointed out the priest’s unique role in confession.

“In confession … the penitent speaks directly to Christ, forgiveness always comes directly from God,” he explained, “while the priest is the witness to this holy action and is the voice of Christ declaring the absolution.”

Absolution is the moment when the priest, through the work of Christ, absolves the penitent from his or her sin.

It is during absolution where priests say they are amazed and humbled at being able to see the effects of this healing right in the confessional.

“I can physically see in the person’s face or hear it in their voice the sense of peace after I give absolution,” Father Kelber said. “There is a comfort that comes from being able to hear the words.”

NO SIN TOO SHOCKING

Priests say one reason many shy away from the sacrament is due to embarrassment. But they add that this should not stop people from going.

Father Vincent told the Catholic Anchor that he has heard it all — from organized crime to Satanism.

“We’ve heard so much, we know what people are capable of doing. Even good people do crazy things sometimes,” he said. “But we’re not interested in how you came … we’re interested in how you leave.”

Father Tom Brundage of St. Andrew Church in Eagle River also stressed the importance of the confidentiality of the sacrament.

“This is a unique sacrament because of its private nature,” he explained. “Most sacraments are very public, but here it is the penitent, the priest and God alone in conversation.”

Father Brundage also made it clear that a priest is bound by a sacred seal to never discuss or act on anything heard in the confession.

PRIESTS CONFESS TOO

All three priests also asked that people need to remember that they need to go to confession just like everybody else.

“Every priest, nun, bishop and pope is required to go to confession, just like any of the faithful,” Father Barrand said. “We’re all in the same boat and in need of our Lord’s mercy and compassion.”

“I get nervous when I go to confession myself,” Father Kelber said. “I know what it’s like!”

Father Tom Brundage agreed.

“We’re all sinners, so join the club,” he said.

INNER PEACE

“Yes, it is sometimes uncomfortable to go to confession … who likes going to the dentist or even the doctor?” Father James Barrand said. “But the relief, the joy of the cessation of the pain afterwards, is most rewarding. When people hear our Lord [through the priest] pronounce the absolution — “I forgive you all of your sins” — they will experience elation in their souls — the peace and joy Adam must have felt in the garden after creation.”

In addition to the spiritual healing, Father Kelber pointed out the human benefits of confession as well.

“Being able to hear the words is so important,” he said. “There is a reason why after the “Our Father” [in the Mass] the priest says the line about delivering us from all anxiety.”

In fact, in addition to the deep spiritual healing, there is physiological evidence that confession is good for the human psyche.

“It is great when doctors acknowledge the importance of confession — and the overlapping of the two,” Father Kelber said. “The good psychologists and priests see the overlap between the two — they are tools that work together.”

The bottom line, according to all the priests: confession helps a person not only be a healthier individual but one on the right path to virtue and holiness.

“When we look to some of the greatest of our saints, even those of recent memory, we find men and women who strove their whole lives to achieve perfection through sanctification which they obtained by frequent confessions and Communion,” Father Barrand said.

"My child, make it known to mankind that penance and confession is a private communication between the confessor, the penitent, and God." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 7, 1976

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TRUE FAITH
"You still have time to make restitution and atonement to save your children. You must bring them back to the Sacraments. You must be an example of modesty and true faith to them. Children will learn much by your example." - St. Anne, July 25, 1973

BE PURIFIED
"When a man has stepped over the threshold and allowed himself to fall into mortal sin, he must be purified by trial, but he must also, My children, be purified by the rule of penance and confession. What manner of evil is being set now upon mankind that compels him to lose his soul by rejecting the Sacraments, by no longer confessing to his confessor, but coming to receive My Son in sacrifice, while his soul is degraded by sin of mortal nature!" - Our Lady, September 7, 1976

MAN OF GOD
"A priest is a man of God, chosen solely from the world to be a representative of the Son of God . . . . As a man of God, he brings to you the Body and Blood of your Savior." - St. Theresa, October 2, 1975

MOCKERY
"Do not make a mockery of the Sacraments in My Son's House. Do not blaspheme in My Son's House. My children, you will bring the wrath of God upon you." - Our Lady, December 7, 1976

ACCEPT GRACES
"Each day of your life must begin with prayer and end with prayer. Accept all of the graces that are given to you freely. Do not reject the means given to you through your Sacraments." - Jesus, February 10, 1977

OFFSET EVIL
"My children, you have been given armor. I have repeated over and over and admonished you to wear the sacramentals for a reason. You are fighting a war now with the unseen, the supernatural. In the plan from Heaven there are Sacraments and sacramentals that can offset the evil and protect you and your loved ones from this evil." - Our Lady, November 21, 1977

SEARCHING
"My children, many are turning from your Sacraments--searching for a new world, a world that is abounding with the word love, love! but who knows the true meaning of the word love? How many are willing to sacrifice for this love? How many are willing to starve themselves of their worldly desires, for this love? How many would be willing to give their lives for this love?" - Our Lady, June 15, 1974

RETURN
"Return to the graces of your Sacraments and Holy Church, or condemn yourselves to eternity with Lucifer! Consecrate your home with the Holy Spirit. Use the waters of life to chase the demons from within your homes." - St. Joachim, July 25, 1973

BE AN EXAMPLE
"You still have time to make restitution and atonement to save your children. You must bring them back to the Sacraments. You must be an example of modesty and true faith to them. Children will learn much by your example." - St. Anne, July 25, 1973

PRICELESS HERITAGE
"My children, in your baptism upon earth you have received the road, you have received the keys to the Kingdom. But you do not recognize your priceless heritage, and you cast it aside for a few short years upon earth, gathering the world's treasures and power to yourselves. For what? Each and every one of you with leave upon earth with what you came in with--nothing! Nothing but the merits that you have stored to ransom your soul from purgatory. Nothing but the merits you have gathered to allow you to enter the Eternal Kingdom of happiness and light." - Jesus, December 7, 1978

FOR LIFE
"When a man has given himself, and chosen from out of the world as a priest of his God, he will be a priest for life." - Our Lady, March 18, 1973

A HOLY BOND
"My child, you have been much concerned about the dissolvement of many marriages in your country. It is truly a sad happening among mankind, My child, for it is the hand of Satan reaching in and capturing the souls of many. What God has joined together in holy Matrimony, let no man place asunder. The liberal attitudes now prevalent in My Son's House bring many tears to Our hearts, for they will lead many souls onto the road to hell.
    "Accept your cross, My children, as you struggle through life with your spouse. When you are united in the holy bond of Matrimony, you are responsible for the soul of your spouse. Unto death shall you part and only unto death will you part.
    "Many of Our children have entered onto the wide road to hell and purgatory. And why? Because too few pray for them and they have now fallen into line with many false teachers.
    "When a union in Matrimony is blessed by My Son through a legitimate, legally ordained priest, His representative, no man shall take it upon himself for worldly gain, money, prestige and power to break the tie that has bound them together by Heaven!" - Our Lady, May 15, 1976

GUILTY
"I do not, at this time, intend to point out any individual, but My voice goes out to you, as My Mother; you know if you are guilty of any sins against the Sacraments.
    "There are seven Sacraments commanded of you by Heaven, My children, and you will keep them. You shall not take them apart by using rationality, and modernism, and humanism. This cannot be." - Jesus, June 18, 1987

NEW MODES
"You must not reject the Sacraments in My Church; you must not reject the teachings for new modes of modernism and socialism." - Jesus, June 2, 1979

YOUR FORTIFICATION
"Prayer, and prayer alone, with the graces gained in sacramentals and Sacraments will be your fortification against the agents of hell now loosed in great number upon your earth." - Jesus, March 24, 1973

YOU REJECT
"Through countless years upon your earth, I have cried out in warning to you. O My children, keep your sacramentals about you. Accept and do not reject the Sacraments of My Son's House: Baptism, Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. And Matrimony, My children-you reject the natural laws of your God. You are substituting a pagan way of life!" - Our Lady, November 1, 1976

COVENANT
"All who have been chosen by the Father to be given the grace of baptism shall have--from that day forward--a covenant with the Lord." - Our Lady, June 15, 1974

CLEANSING OF SOUL
"The young children must be taken by their parents to the temples-the Houses of My Son-throughout your world. They must learn by habit a good example of cleansing of their soul by confession. The good priests of earth, those who have been dedicated and received this consecration from My Son, must take these tender souls and nurture them in their Faith." - Our Lady, November 20, 1975

YOU WILL FALL
"Know, My child, that the heart of the sacrifice is in what you call the Eucharist. You will eat of My Body and drink of My Flesh or you will not have the light within you. You will not have the light within you, but will fall into darkness if you do not eat of My Body and drink of My Flesh." - Jesus, May 22, 1974

COMMUNICATION
"My child, make it known to mankind that penance and confession is a private communication between the confessor, the penitent, and God." - Our Lady, December 7, 1976

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