Product Description
If you still drag your feet about going to Confession, here’s the help you need to enable you to overcome your reluctance and open your soul to the vast reservoir of mercy found in Confession.
This down-to-earth, practical guide shows you how to transform your confessions from embarrassing moments in a dark room into profound experiences of God’s love. The author, Fr. John Kane, provides solid guidelines for how you can (and must) make the most effective possible use of the sacrament of Reconciliation.
Even better, he shows you how to carry the grace of Confession into your daily life, so that you’ll start winning — consistently — your battles against sin.
This is a book you can return to again and again in order to renew your sense of God’s mercy — as well as to gain Fr. Kane’s help in examining your conscience and bringing your life into greater conformity with the light of the gospel.
How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation With God
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I purchased this book for someone new to the Catholic Faith and who wanted a better understanding of Confession–how to do it, the “procedure” of this beautiful Sacrament, points to examine ones conscious. They began reading the book and gave it back to me because the writing style/use of big words was too difficult. So I read the book myself and I wouldn’t recommend it for the beginner, but it’s very good for one a bit more advanced. This book spends most of it’s time helping one to gain a deeper understanding of the gravity of sin. The appendix includes the “process” of Confession and many wonderful questions to examine ones conscious to each of the Ten Commandments. I kept the book and will read it again, but I would not recommend it to someone new to the Faith.
I agree that this isn’t a great text for beginning Catholics or those new to the Faith, but better for a Catholic looking for answers on Confession, Penance, Reconcilliation and Sin. The reflections on the 10 commmandments are great. Remember folks, the original publication date was 1943, pre-Vatican II.
Thinking is difficult, and meditation is difficult, and meditative silence over a long period of time is very difficult, because we are in a society which doesn’t allow for any of this. Television, movies, sports, all fill our brains and have done so since the 1950s. So to read a book for one’s benefit which was written before that time is to enter a privileged world, a deep silence. I highly recommend this to anyone who desires to know God and himself better. I was not upset by either the writing style (which I thought very readable) or the Biblical innacurracies (the Mary things are debatable, and in all else, this was an incredibly Biblical book) but was challanged by the whole premise of repentance. Protestants gave up Confession long ago, and most Catholics only recently. Yet Christ says, “Unless you repent . . .” Maybe that’s what’s wrong with the world.
Overall, this pocket sized book on how to make a proper confession is a great idea. Many Catholics don’t realise just how important this is rather than to just go through the motions and hence not receive the full benefits of this wonderful sacrament. The typeset and font is of a great size too for easy reading and the compact size makes it very portable too.
However, the one thing that bothers me about this book is the blatant inaccuracy and inadvertent libel of one of our greatest saints, St. Mary Magdalene. In the bible, she is only described as one from whom Jesus expelled 7 demons. She is NOT the woman caught in adultery nor is she the one who cries over the feet of Jesus. CAN WE PLEASE STOP LIBELLING HER?
On page 77 of this book, the author clearly hasn’t read his bible clearly as he continues this libel by saying that Mary led a life of sins of the flesh. Unless anyone can prove to me that being possessed by 7 demons is a code word for sins of the flesh, there is no where in the bible that states this.
I hope in future editions they will correct this great injustice and pray to St. Mary Magdalene to apologise for this great libel and injustice.