Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Go Confess!

As I stepped out of the St.Vincent's monestry chapel today after Mass, I saw a mother and her 2 sons coming out. The older one might be in 6th or 7th Std. and the younger one maybe in 2nd or 3rd. As they were about to leave the mother turns to the older son and says, "The priest is available today, why don't you go confess." The boy hesistated for a moment, but then obliged and went back into the chapel to prepare for his confession.
Now I wondered... today is no day of obligation and I'm quite certain there isn't a mortal sin that the young boy would've committed that required a confession! I was simply amazed at the mother's compulsion that her son must confess. How sensitive to the Spirit the mother might've been... and how open to the Spirit, working through his mother, the son was.


I wonder if I will be able to bring up my children in as much faith and obedience. May the Lord grant me the grace. Amen. 

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