Jesus says in the gospel that we know how to interpret the weather, but we don’t know how to interpret the present time.
In my years of experience as a spiritual director, I have found that frequent confession is vital to a personal relationship with Jesus. I always advise penitents to come to confession at least six to eight weeks. Of course, more often would be much better.
Today, psychologists tell us that it takes six weeks or just a little longer for a pattern of behavior to become part of our instinct. When this happens, we don’t have to think if something is wrong anymore. We just do it. That sinful pattern becomes second nature to us.
Jesus says in the gospel that we know how to interpret the weather, but we don’t know how to interpret the present time. The present time is the condition of our soul before Almighty God. It’s what he sees and wants so much to forgive, especially when we are before him in the Blessed Sacrament.
Let us not be afraid to acknowledge our sinfulness. In the letter to the Romans, St. Paul says that we do not do the good we want to do but the evil we do not want. Take a quiet moment with Jesus and surrender to him that struggle.
He doesn’t want us to pay for the consequences of our sinful choices. He already did!
Gospel Challenge: Think a little bit more deeply about making that good confession, where we celebrate afresh Jesus’s dying and rising and His victory over sin.
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Interpret the Times
Jesus says in the gospel that we know how to interpret the weather, but we don’t know how to interpret the present time.
In my years of experience as a spiritual director, I have found that frequent confession is vital to a personal relationship with Jesus. I always advise penitents to come to confession at least six to eight weeks. Of course, more often would be much better.
Today, psychologists tell us that it takes six weeks or just a little longer for a pattern of behavior to become part of our instinct. When this happens, we don’t have to think if something is wrong anymore. We just do it. That sinful pattern becomes second nature to us.
Jesus says in the gospel that we know how to interpret the weather, but we don’t know how to interpret the present time. The present time is the condition of our soul before Almighty God. It’s what he sees and wants so much to forgive, especially when we are before him in the Blessed Sacrament.
Let us not be afraid to acknowledge our sinfulness. In the letter to the Romans, St. Paul says that we do not do the good we want to do but the evil we do not want. Take a quiet moment with Jesus and surrender to him that struggle.
He doesn’t want us to pay for the consequences of our sinful choices. He already did!
Gospel Challenge:
Think a little bit more deeply about making that good confession, where we celebrate afresh Jesus’s dying and rising and His victory over sin.
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Fr. Rick Pilger IC
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