Originally posted here:
Each prayer of the Daily Office has a prayer of confession at the
start; in theory you could say five a single day (plus litanies.) None
of these are sacramental in the sense that James was talking about; and
while we *do* have a rubric for Reconciliation, the refrain about it is
that "Any can, some should, none must."
When their time comes, I'm sure that I'm not a murderer or a
heresiarch. I'm sure that my sins are small stuff. I say the prayer of
confession anyways. To confess is to humble ourselves, to own that we can be wrong. To confess is to word our weakness, to learn words to confront it as we must.
To confess is to create a time and space when we can learn to sorrow,
to regret, to come before a God of mercy needing mercy. And that's
ultimately why we do it: confession is the hard work of learning to
appreciate grace. Pardon the cliché, but as long as I can confess my
sins I can celebrate that Jesus died for them; that He is mine, and I am
His.
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