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PEOPLE
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Repentance and Reconciliation
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When Christ started preaching in Galilee, his first message
was: “Reform your lives and believe the Gospel”.
(Mark 1:15)
Nevertheless, God’s mercy carries with it a price tag: our
willingness to reform, repent or change our ways, to turn away
from sin and back to God. Once we have done this however, the
gates of God’s forgiveness instantly open up. |
"Prepare the
Way of the Lord
Make straight
the path" |
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The Catholic Church has always taught that as soon as we
sincerely repent and seek the Lord’s mercy, all our sins are
forgiven. It consequently teaches and encourages every member
to approach God directly through Jesus and ask for
forgiveness. Yet, normally there remains with in the human
person, a great need to express verbally her or his wrongdoing
and to experience actual forgiveness through some word or
gesture. For this reason, Jesus gave us a sacrament to meet
that need. |
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The Church’s sacrament of Penance, also called Reconciliation
or Confession, provides an exceptional opportunity for this.
Through this sacrament, repentant persons not only have
occasion to disclose their sins, but actually to experience
the mercy of God who through the words and gesture of the
priest, forgives their sins. |
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Reconciliation
Times at St Michael’s:
Rite 1 –
(Individual) Fridays 11.30am, Saturdays 9.30am,
or by appointment phone 09 520 1226
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LENT |
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We are in the Church Season called Lent characterised by the
priest (usually) wearing purple vestments at Mass. |
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"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
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John 10:10 |
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+click here for an
explanation of what happens at Mass
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God's Dream for
me
Before
the world was made,
I was
in the mind of God.
God knew me.
God chose me.
God loved me.
God designed me
and desired me
just as I am.
God has a dream
for me now,
now for my life
and growth,
for my holiness
and wholeness.
No-one else
in the entire universe can fulfil
that dream of God,
except me.
To become myself,
my true self,
that is my life's work.
To grow is to change,
to be perfect
is to change often,
and
as long as I live
inner strength is possible.
To allow to shine
forth
in all the world
that unique image of God that I am,
that hidden beauty
deep within my soul,
that truth which
I alone speak,
that love which
only my heart
is capable of giving.
To become myself
my true self....
my best self...
in Jesus...
open to God...
to live
to the world.
That is my vocation.
That is what I desire.
That for me is holiness.
(Source unknown)
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