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“A few decades ago, nobody believed in the confession of sins except the Church. Today everyone believes in confession – with this difference: some believe in confessing their own sins; others believe in confessing other people’s sins. The popularity of psychoanalysis has nearly convinced everyone of the necessity of some kind of confession for peace of mind. This is another instance of how the world, which threw Christian truths into the wastebasket in the nineteenth century, is pulling them out in isolated secularized form in the twentieth century, meanwhile deluding itself into believing that it has made a great discovery. The world found it could not get along without some release for its inner unhappiness. Once it had rejected confession and denied both God and guilt, it had to find a substitute.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Footprints in a Darkened Forest)

On the subject of Confession, a good topic as we go into Lent, I’m reading “Lord Have Mercy” by Scott Hahn. I’m also doing the retreat of 33 days to Morning Glory - third time but this time with a group at church to culminate on March 25th. Great workbook. People have been telling me to journal for years but I never really have until this workbook. Very useful.

We watch Fulton Sheen on EWTN. So inspiring! We look forward to St. Sheen in the future.

When I was a newbie Catholic, my husband would say the strangest things, like psychoanalysis could be all but eliminated if people went back to confessing their sins. In time, I realized it wasn't a strange thing to say at all; and it doesn't cost a dime, and the priest doesn't watch his watch either. Fulton Sheen was a brilliant, holy man.

Fulton Sheen on adoration:The Holy Hour had its origin in a practice I developed a year before I was ordained. The big chapel in St. Paul's Seminary would be locked by six o'clock; there were still private chapels available for private devotions and evening prayers. This particular evening during recreation, I walked up and down outside the closed major chapel for almost an hour. The thought struck me - why not make a Holy Hour of adoration in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament? The next day I began, and the practice is now well over sixty years old. http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/fsheen_hourday_july05.asp
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