I attended the sacrament of reconciliation / confession / forgiveness / penance today. It has a few names, and I think it's my favourite. You just walk out feeling cleansed and at peace; loved by God!

Here is one piece I have which mentions reconciliation - quoting Genesis 33: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2033&version=NIV in which brothers Jacob and Esau meet after a 20 year estrangement and reconcile.

(Apologies for the blurry photo, I should have checked when I took it!)

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Quote of the day, 24 March: St. Thérèse

Thérèse’s last letter, dated August 10, 1897, was to Maurice Bellière, a young seminarian, who had written to Lisieux Carmel in October 1895 requesting that one of the nuns pray that he would persevere in his vocation. Thérèse was assigned to be his “spiritual sister.” Over the next two years, Thérèse’s correspondence provided Bellière with counsel and encouragement.

Thérèse’s last letter to Bellière is a testament to her belief in the mercy of God. She writes to her disheartened, dispirited brother, who fears that once she is in heaven, she will not be able to look upon him with the same tenderness and mercy with which she had regarded him on earth, because then she will be sharing in the justice of God.

“I am now all ready to leave; I have received my passport for heaven . . . I received Viaticum for my long journey! . . . Little Brother, we do not understand heaven in the same way. It seems to you that sharing in the justice, in the holiness of God, I would be unable to as on earth excuse your faults. Are you forgetting, then, that I shall be sharing also in the infinite mercy of the Lord? I believe the blessed have great compassion on our miseries, they remember, being weak and mortal like us, they committed the same faults, sustained the same combats, and their fraternal tenderness becomes greater than it was when they were on earth, and for this reason, they never cease protecting us and praying for us” (Ltr 263).

It is on this same note of trusting in the infinite mercy of God that Thérèse ends Story of a Soul.

“Yes, I feel it; even though I had on my conscience all the sins that can be committed, I would go, my heart broken with sorrow, and throw myself into Jesus’s arms, for I know how much He loves the prodigal child who returns to Him. It is not because God, in His anticipating Mercy, has preserved my soul from mortal sin that I go to Him with confidence and love . . .” (Ms C 36r-37r).

The manuscript ends in mid-sentence as if Thérèse were saying, there is nothing more that can be said. How fitting it is that Thérèse’s last letter and the last words of her manuscript echo her childlike trust in God’s mercy and love.

Father Marc Foley, o.c.d.

Study Guide to Story of a Soul, Manuscript C

Thérèse & Foley, M 2005, Story of a Soul: The autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Study edn, translated from the French by Clarke, J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: © Natalie Ewert (All rights reserved), used by permission.

Don't make the mistake of being so understanding and forgiving that you overlook the fact that you're being disrespected.

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The ethical and psychological complexities of forgiveness remain some of the most profound subjects in contemporary literature. 🏛️📜

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A quotation from Hyman Rickover

Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) Polish-American naval engineer, admiral [b. Chaim Gdala Rykower]
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/rickover-hyman/6585/

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Möge ich ruhig sein.
Möge ich gesund sein.
Möge ich sicher sein.
Möge mein Herz leicht sein.

May I be peaceful.
May I be healthy.
May I be safe.
May my heart be at ease.

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Forgiveness isn’t weakness—it’s strength. Let go of bitterness, heal your heart, and grow into the man God calls you to be. Healing starts when you release the debt. ✝️💪 #Forgiveness #ChristianLiving #MensFaith

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/the-power-of-forgiveness-healing-yourself-and-others-in-christian-living-for-men-no-excuses-no-weakness-no-bs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social