Confession

The mysterious power of the confession

Has someone told you in confidence about a misconduct that troubled his conscience? It may have happened to you many times. It is interesting to note that by choosing to talk about it, he made a choice as serious as the misdeed itself. By telling someone else, he opened the door to a pardon, he may have expected advice and he decreased his mental pressure.
This requirement of the confession is present throughout our life, even for children, This is one of the reasons why we have two parents and are born in a loving atmosphere. The family supplies a climate of protection, learning and assumption of responsibilities. School or daycare is the next step for instruction and social life. Man is a social animal : we interact with our family and must choose friends, mentors, sometimes a doctor or therapist. More serious matters will be discussed with a smaller circle : immediate family, therapist, trusted friend.
The confession is a celebration of life, an opportunity to grow, a way of freeing our conscience. It is a biological protection against anarchy created by God who intervenes through someone else. The mechanism of confession is well known by all priests, all doctors and by judicial authorities. This is how priests see in penitents a sinner who may be redeemed if he adopts an appropriate attitude. Doctors see in patients someone who may be oppressed by his conscience and the root of the problem afflicting him must go through the expression of his misdeeds or the explanation of a troubling fact. Judicial authorities see a criminal as someone who either has accomplices or is emotionally unstable until he has unburdened himself.
So… Are you perturbed by a sin or a troubling fact?
You have a lot to gain by confessing it; you will soon feel the relief!