How to Prepare for Confession
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like you are simply going through the motions when it comes to the sacrament of confession? Most Catholics know the necessary steps in order to make a good confession, but how are we preparing our hearts for this sacrament? Dr. Edward Sri dives into how we can approach this sacrament with reverence and prepare to receive the full abundance of the Lord’s mercy.
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Confession isn’t transactional; it’s a relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:07.0 | Do you ever wonder why you can frequent the sacraments but still not notice as much change in your spiritual life as you'd like? |
| 0:20.0 | For example, maybe you go to confession, but you keep bringing that same sin to confession over and over and over again, and you can begin wondering, why am I not better? How come I'm not changing? Does the sacrament really work? But maybe the problem isn't so much the sacrament, but how we approach the |
| 0:35.6 | sacrament. Are we really preparing ourselves for this powerful encounter moment in |
| 0:42.1 | the sacraments and all that God wants to give us in the |
| 0:44.9 | sacraments. How do I prepare my heart? What do I need to do? That's what we're going to take a |
| 0:48.5 | look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host Edward Sri and Beth and I we have a |
| 0:55.5 | brand new book that's out that I want to share with you. It's called Pocket Guide to |
| 0:59.5 | Prayer. I came out with the Sentient Press just recently and it's basically an on ramp to all things related to Catholic prayer. |
| 1:05.8 | Whether you're trying to jumpstart your prayer life and develop the habit of a consistent prayer life, |
| 1:10.0 | or you've been praying for a long time and you just want to go deeper in the different expressions and types of prayer. |
| 1:16.0 | Or what we're going to talk about today, you just want to approach the sacraments better. |
| 1:20.0 | I have a whole chapter in here just about how to prepare our hearts for each of the |
| 1:25.3 | sacraments, how to prepare our own hearts, or if we have children and we're preparing them to encounter |
| 1:29.4 | God in the Eucharist during confession, what do we need to do? |
| 1:33.4 | Now, one of the things I think about, |
| 1:36.2 | when I think about this topic is, |
| 1:37.8 | is my bad luck with vending machines. |
| 1:40.3 | Do you ever have bad luck with vending machines? |
| 1:42.6 | You know, I travel a lot and sometimes, you know, I land at an airport, I just want to get a bottle |
| 1:46.0 | of water and I'll avoid the long line at Starbucks or something and just go to a vending machine. |
| 1:51.4 | And you know, back in the day I would, you know, straighten out my dollar bill, make it |
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