To Priests, about Confession,...for everyone to read

 I saw this on a tv show...a fictional dialogue about the seal of confession where a priest could not reveal wat was shared in the Sacrament of Confession. The discussion was between a Police Commissioner an his elderly Dad. The Dad's reply was deep an well stated...and an approach most don't think of...i thought it might b a point of reflection for all... especially our priests. I added a few words to beter clarify a few things.... Ty to all priests for ur vocation!  B assured of my continued prayers.  Enjoy this day!!

angie

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"What am I supposed to do, Pop? 

Put yourself in Father Phil's shoes. 

I am. And I still come out in favor of state over church, a kid's welfare over some ancient edict. 

That priest has earned his right to protect the seal. 

How? You confess your sins, you say your three Hail Marys, you drop some change in the poor box on the way out. As I was taught to do. 

Yes. But the priest, he's left with your sins. He absorbs your sins. He prays for you. As he took a vow to do. And he has nothing but smiles and good cheer for the cheating husband or wife and their innocent family when he sees them at church after mass on Sunday....smiles for all of us sinners regardless of what we bring to him... This costs a priest. Times all the sinners, times all the years. (sighs) He is on the job, in his own way."

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A priest friend of mine replied the following to me after reading the above dialogue:

"That is a very beautiful analogy of the Confessional angie.  The priest becomes the sewer ...and then he processes it.   It only can be done because the priest is in the place of Christ humanly speaking . Priests could not do it ... he would have a breakdown..... he would be destroyed by the sin,  but because of his Holy Orders and who he is in the Sacraments ...allows him to do what he does. "

PLZ ALWAYS PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTS!  THEY SACRIFICE MUCH TO BRING US JESUS!!