Psalm 51: Repent Like David
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sin affects all of us, and the story of David in 2 Samuel proves that. Today, Jeff explains how praying with Psalm 51 can help us prepare our souls for confession, through the example of David.
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“There is no such thing as private sin, it affects all of us, all of mankind.” - Pope St. John Paul II
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show episode 197 Psalm 51 |
| 0:07.1 | repent like David. |
| 0:12.3 | Hey I'm Jeff Cavens. |
| 0:12.3 | Hey I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:17.0 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. |
| 0:23.8 | It's the Jeff Kaven Show. |
| 0:28.4 | Hey, thanks for joining me on the show today. |
| 0:31.2 | Coming up on Christmas, just right around the corner if you're |
| 0:35.4 | listening to the show out of sequence that's what we're facing right now is just |
| 0:40.0 | a number of days before Christmas and we're in the middle of the whole COVID-19. |
| 0:44.7 | It's a Christmas like no other Christmas we've ever experienced before. |
| 0:50.7 | And one of the things that we are really encouraged to do as Christians is to is to go to |
| 0:56.1 | confession and that's something you can do before Christmas. Make make the path straight. |
| 1:02.1 | Make the road straight. As John the path straight. Make the road straight. |
| 1:03.8 | As John the Baptist talks about, |
| 1:06.1 | we do this in Advent, we prepare our heart |
| 1:09.0 | for the coming of the Lord. |
| 1:11.2 | And there's a lot of ways that you can do that but the the principal way is to go to |
| 1:16.2 | confession now that's a little bit hard for some people given COVID right now but I do believe |
| 1:21.7 | with all of my heart that if you seek confession in your diocese, |
| 1:26.9 | you will find it. You will find it. And priests are going out of their way. Yay to priests, we love you guys, going way out of their way to make this wonderful |
| 1:36.3 | sacrament available to us. |
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