Category Archives: Confession
I’m looking for a good confessor near Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Help me out, please!
Considering the recent posts How to avoid a bad confessor and How to find a good confessor, I’d like to ask readers for the names of good confessors around and between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. I’m looking for a priest’s … Continue reading
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How to avoid a bad confessor
Also see: How to find a good confessor To avoid a bad confessor, avoid the priest who… … is merely a lionness instead of a lion in the pulpit, and who, instead of being a lamb in the confessional, eats … Continue reading
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How to find a good confessor
Also see: How to avoid a bad confessor Now then, TO get any confessor, make sure he’s… … a lion in the pulpit and a lamb in the confessional (–Saint Alphonsus). It is almost always true that a lion in the … Continue reading
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“I’d like to make a General Confession, Father!”
What General Confession is NOT: 1. General Confession is NOT General Absolution. 2. General Confession is NOT saying, “I confess my life” with no detail other than that! 3. General Confession is NOT being scrupulous in trying to be more … Continue reading
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Examination of conscience for adults using the commandments & precepts of the Church
These are only a few things. Don’t limit yourself to this list. And remember, you know sin first of all by comparing yourself with the Standard of Goodness and Kindness, Mary’s Son, Jesus. You do this by accepting His invitation, … Continue reading
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Dangers on the road to Confession
Time for Confession, according to my New Year’s resolution not to ever go more than two weeks without this great sacrament of our Lord’s goodness and kindness. The Holy Souls Mountain waterfall was behaving itself, even after the days of … Continue reading
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UPDATE: Jesus goes to confession
Oh, it might seem that we decide to go to confession, and I guess we do, but if we do that sincerely, with true penitence, looking to our Lord in humble thanksgiving (or at least afraid of the loss of … Continue reading
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And speaking of maggots and Jesus: I was a total idiot as a seminarian
In Psalm 22, all about Jesus on the cross, we read: “My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?” (Psalm 22,2). A few verses later, we read, also in the first person singular: “I am a maggot [ תוֹלַ֣עַת … Continue reading
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08 Rosary Rant – Special sixth mystery – The Immaculate Conception
No, Blessed Pope John Paul II did not promulgate a special sixth mystery in honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. No, this doesn’t belong to any of the sets of five mysteries in … Continue reading
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Saint and sinner: it’s either both or neither one
I just love that: the Virgin Martyr Philomena (posts HERE) and the sainted penitent Mary of Magdala, together! This is the glory of the Church Militant, the Church Triumphant, and the aim of going through purgatory in this life instead … Continue reading
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“Wheeeeee!” And then: “I hate other priests who tell me I’m on a slippery slope for not saying the Liturgy of the Hours”
“I hate other priests who tell me I’m on a slippery slope for not saying the Liturgy of the Hours” — That’s a direct quote from a priest who just told that to me out of the blue about what … Continue reading
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My fellow bishops and priests, is not our own going to confession the heart of the new evangelization?
So, a silly cartoon, but it has a point, doesn’t it? It’s great if any of us hears confessions. But the transformation of a parish will come about in the new evangelization precisely when we go to confession frequently, when … Continue reading
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Thanks to Benefactors: From the calm ferocity of Saint Michael to Holy Hours and Mass – Lots of great pictures and a rant on confession
As I started my journey yesterday morning to the airport in Charlotte, this is the firey sunrise which greeted me. Had I seen this in Australia, I would have feared for my life, thinking it was a forest fire. There, … Continue reading
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Favorite photo contest of Holy Souls Hermitage blog and a note about confession
From an email: I was just looking through your blog. I think my favorite photo was the mountain scene that you said you see as you are commuting going back and forth to confession. It shows the nearby hills, mountain … Continue reading
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I got my vocation going to Confession
This is from the back cover of the K. of C. Columbia magazine. Scott is from the Archdiocese of Denver. Part of the caption to the picture reads like this: There I was, a 19 year old kneeling in church … Continue reading
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Getting ready for the stove at Holy Souls Hermitage, and a rant on Euthanasia and Confession!
The second row of chopped wood, running the depth of the hermitage, was finished off, and a third started, with some wood ready to split. Work went until dark, which made me thank the Lord for the gift of sight. … Continue reading
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A hermit does NOT find himself! Ever! A Holy Souls Hermitage special
Did you ever hear people say that they are going out to find themselves? The prodigal son did that. And he did find himself. Sigh. So what? Big deal? Who was he before he went out to find himself? A … Continue reading
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Taking in the view during my confession run
I see this on my way to and fro for confession. Very cool. And, yes, hermits also go to confession! Of course we do. Keeps us pointed directly to heaven. I saw a huge beaver not far from where this picture … Continue reading
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The Seal of Confession, burning at the stake and the Holy Mother of God
Excommunication for the direct or, mind you, indirect breaking of the seal of confession on the part of the confessor, only refers to ecclesiastical jurisprudence having effects in this world, where it is possible still for the confessor to seek … Continue reading
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Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. I pray for benefactors daily, offering Holy Mass for their intentions about once a month. You'll have to force me to take your donations, though. Scroll down for an explanation.
