Guide for Confessors
Guide for Confessors

Author: Alphonsus Liguori

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1387677934

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This rich classic passed out of common usage years ago, but here we find it restored for the first time to the benefit of the English reader. St. Alphonsus transformed the landscape of the experience of this Reconciliation, and our confessional experience would be unthinkable without his saintly, intellectual, and pastoral prowess. While the cultural and historical context is amazingly fascinating, it necessitates peeling back those layers to see the glimmering treasure within. For that reason, this edition provides an introductory essay that steps lightly to take note of these difference for a fruitful reception of the saint's genius. May all readers benefit for the greater glory of God.

Go In Peace
Go In Peace

Author: Martin L. Smith

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1848257376

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Go In Peace offers help to clergy exercising pastoral ministry as confessors. It provides an overview of Anglican Rite of Reconciliation, the pastoral skills needed, its relationship to pastoral counselling, the disciplines of confidentiality and the integration of this ministry into mature priestly identity and spirituality.

Sacrament of Mercy
Sacrament of Mercy

Author: Thomas Weinandy OFM

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1725227622

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Sacrament of Mercy is a guide to help make the experience of the Sacrament of Reconciliation more fruitful. After briefly reviewing how the practice of confession has developed through the centuries, Fr. Thomas Weinandy presents the various theological and pastoral aspects of this sacrament. Drawing on his wide pastoral experience, he emphasizes how Reconciliation effectively leads to continual conversion and spiritual growth. Twenty-five scripturally based reflections guide the reader to examine his or her life, to acknowledge and repent of sin, and come to experience the compassion, mercy and healing grace of God.

Hearing Confessions
Hearing Confessions

Author: Kenneth N. Ross

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1725254387

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A restatement of the principles and practice of hearing confessions is long overdue. The enlarged role of psychiatry and pastoral counseling, the questioning of the special role of the priesthood, the diminished sense of individual responsibility, and the influence of situation ethics are all factors to be reckoned with, no less than the practical questions of administering the sacrament. This practical guide for confessors was prepared for publication following the author's death by Reginald Cant, Canon of York Minster, and includes a memoir of the author by Gordon Hopkins.

A Fresh Look at Confession
A Fresh Look at Confession

Author: David M. Knight

Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781585959013

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David Knight was forty years a priest before he learned that priests don't hear sins in confession. "What you are really revealing is your ideals," he says. "The real you has a different set of ideals, reflecting your heart instead of your lapses. This 'you' abides with God." With these words Father Knight reveals that A Fresh Look at Confession is unlike anything you may have read about the sacrament. He speaks about the heart of confession, its meaning and mystery, and why it is so necessary for authentic followers of Christ. This is deep theology, explained in clear language. But it's also much more: Father Knight's moving, intensely personal account of his own journey as a sinner takes readers beyond theory and into the awe-inspiring reality of our complete redemption in Jesus, who does not just forgive, but who "takes away" the sins of the world. From a varied background as missionary, teacher, pastor, professor, retreat director, and campus minister, Father Knight's ministry has come to focus on making mystical experience commonplace in conscious Christian living. Book jacket.