A New Year- time to begin.....again

[ShannonMcCatholic]

Spiritual life is - and I repeat this again and again, on purpose - a constant beginning and beginning again. Beginning again? Yes. Every time you make an act of contrition - and you should make many every day - you begin again, because you offer a new love to God. (St. Josemaría, The Forge, 384)

 

[Alexis OCA]

Good to remember. St. Josemaria really knew how to get right to the point.

 

[geocajun]

Amen to that.
Among many reasons for a daily act of contrition is that we may not wake up the next day.

 

[Adammi]

I think that this would be a good place to expand upon contrition.

 

[geocajun]

I think that this would be a good place to expand upon contrition.

CCC-1451 Among the penitent's acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is "sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again."

 

[cool2bCatholic]

St Josemaria! I've chosen him as my confirmation saint.
Very true words...I especially like what he says about holy purity.
God bless you and Pax Christi!
Angela