7 Secrets of Confession Author: Vinny Flynn | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EQC7XRG | Format: EPUB
7 Secrets of Confession Description
"I want to go to Communion, so I have to go to confession."
Sound familiar? To many Catholics, confession is just a means to an end: cleaning us up from sin so we can receive Communion. But, as Pope Francis tells us, confession is much more than "going to the dry cleaner." It's "an encounter with Jesus, who waits for us as we are."
In 7 Secrets of Confession, best-selling author Vinny Flynn explores the "hidden" truths of this encounter with Jesus, presenting what to many will be a whole new way of going to confession, and inviting you to begin an exciting personal journey to healing and holiness.
If you do no yet look forward to confession in the same way you look forward to Communion, read on. It will change your life.
- File Size: 438 KB
- Print Length: 227 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1884479464
- Publisher: MercySong / Ignatius Press (August 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EQC7XRG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Small book with big ideas! Well done, Mr. Flynn! From the outset, the author established a common ground for anyone who's ever had questions about the purpose of Confession. As he points out, the grand majority of us only go as a step toward getting to the Eucharist. But the idea that struck me the hardest from this book was how important the Sacrament of Reconciliation was on its own merits. It doesn't have to be just one more this you have to do before you go to Mass. It doesn't have to just be a list of guilty habits we rattle off every week. Confession, in and of itself, is a beautiful, powerful and healing sacrament. The author's 7 secrets give just enough explanation to make them applicable immediately while still leaving room for the reader to make them personal. Mr. Flynn, by the grace of God and a boat-load of behind-the-scenes work, has done for me in 180 pages what I was unable to do for myself in 9 years of studying the Catholic faith as an adult convert; he's made me eager to participate in a Sacrament that I once dreaded. As a side note, this book may make you want to buy copies of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as well as the Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska by the time you finish due to the author's numerous references to both.
By Jeremy
In a way, I suspect we all know the 7 secrets deep within us. But the depth of Vinny Flynn's analysis is so honest and personal all in line with Church teaching it actually was one of the more compelling books I've read this year. Just when I thought he hit the main point of each secret, there would be more layers he would uncover. I dare not reveal the secrets here, other than they unpack theology into coherent and clear meaning that even non-Catholics could grasp the concepts. In other words, Vinny Flynn blows open the gate to the long standing cliche of confession and brings it right up to us in very simple terms: God is giving us a chance to come back. It's all there for us if we want it.
Throughout the secrets, Flynn combines personal testimony with two big juggernauts, the Catechism (including the astounding section #2840) and Sr. Faustina's Diary revelations. For those on the heavy systematic theology or dogmatic side this might not be for you. Flynn's style is to appeal to the more regular folk and his casual, chatty style may not work for some readers. But what he has to say is required reading for all yearning to overcome the chains that are weighing them down -- and how to do it.
This is a positive, hopeful and tremendously insightful book that will truly compel you to want to start anew today. If you let it, allow it to open your heart. As you read on you will find that while you are grateful that it helps you approach Confession in a new light, you will want to read even more about God's love for each of us. "Nothing that you or I have ever done, ever will do, or ever could do, can make Him stop loving us."
By James F. Day
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