AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Going to confession on Holy Week is best sacrifice.
Byline: Jocelyn R. Uy
THE BEST sacrifice you can do during Holy Week is not attending prayer vigils or performing self-flagellation, but queuing at the confessional box and enduring the little shame that goes with coming clean of your sins to a priest.
It takes a lot of spirit and sacrifice to go to confession because you have to line up to the confessional and, tell your sins to a priest, which gives you a little shame and embarrassment, said Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz.
This makes confession the greatest penitence one can do in the most solemn week celebrated by Catholics, said Cruz in an interview. It entails sacrifice, which is the spirit of Lent, he added.
Pope confesses …
-
- Holy Week.
-
Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer
April 1, 2007
700+ words
-
- What sacrifice will you make this Holy Week?
-
Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer
March 27, 2002
700+ words
-
- High Places in Antipolo City attract Holy Week crowd.
-
Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer
April 9, 2006
700+ words
-
- Letter: Holy Week is upon us.
-
Newspaper article from: Jakarta Post
April 21, 2011
700+ words
-
- Holy Week tradition of silence gives inner awareness.
-
Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer
March 27, 2002
700+ words
