Once I was exposed to the damage "the
toxic trinity" can wreak, it drastically changed my approach to the
Sacrament Of reconciliation. As I have
mentioned before I was lucky to have for four years, the late Bishop "The
Doc" Paddy Lennon. He was one of
the best in Europe. We came away from
St. Patrick's with a deep groundedness in the approach to the imputability of
human actions. A human act is a knowing mind and a consenting will. Not every action of us humans is an human
act. For an human act to be matter for
reconciliation one has to have a knowing mind and a consenting will. One must knowledge and the freedom to
consent. (I am not going to deal with all of which that entails. It has taken
me 57 years on top of the 4 previously mentioned in a blog) To be really honest
I now spend more time in explaining appropriate guilt to penitents who are
confessing that which is not sin, that actually welcoming the "good
sinners" back to their Prodigal father's transfiguring and transforming
mercy-full love.
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