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Christ looks with contentment on the life of one who is reconciled, who is like an unblemished fruit.

At the merest scrap of true contrition in prayer, it is as though we touch God, who pours down His forgiveness like rain.

Christ, like an elder brother or friend, delights in our efforts to be ready for the celebration of Mass. When we are sorry for our sins, and He forgives us, it is as though He sees us properly attired.

Christ, like an elder brother or friend, delights in our efforts to be ready for the celebration of Mass. When we are sorry for our sins, and He forgives us, it is as though He sees us properly attired.

To offer Christ's Sacrifice to the Father is like offering a treasure box, which is made more beautiful by the 'diamonds' on it, which are our repented and forgiven sins.

To offer Christ's Sacrifice to the Father is like offering a treasure box, which is made more beautiful by the 'diamonds' on it, which are our repented and forgiven sins.

To offer Christ's Sacrifice to the Father is like offering a treasure box, which is made more beautiful by the 'diamonds' on it, which are our repented and forgiven sins.

Are we in a 'State of Grace' or not? It is important that we admit and avoid serious sin. Unless we repent and are reconciled we are fit neither for Holy Communion nor for Heaven.

The Father in Heaven sees a small figure, bowing before Him and ablaze like a diamond. No scar remains from long-forgiven sins.

If we are humble, repentant, loving, and faithful to Christ, His glory will shine out from our souls as if from a diamond

By an act of pure, selfless love, every minor fault is wiped out, and the soul is held 'high', in prayer, close to the Father's throne.

When we forgive someone for a specific deed, God's grace is at work in us. His forgiveness flows through us, as water flows through a tap in Lourdes. Yet when we are so full of charity that love and forgiveness 'flow out' of us upon every thought and deed we are Godlike; for His forgiveness is like the water that pours unceasingly down a mountainside.

Someone who refuses to forgive, and who hates and despises someone else, is as if piling up furniture against the inside of the door of her soul. God and His Light cannot shine in. She freely chooses to make a tomb of her own soul, and will find herself in Hell, if she perseveres in sin.

A person who refuses to forgive is like someone who piles up furniture against the 'door' of his own soul. God's light can not come in. That man makes a tomb of his own soul.

In His unchanging Will, God is like the perpetual and steady descent of a vast forest waterfall. Just as the water cannot suddenly flow upwards or sideways, so God never changes in His desire to offer us true life, true freedom, forgiveness and holiness, if we will accept them.

If we hope to be saved, the importance of Baptism cannot be exaggerated. It is the means chosen by God by which a person's state becomes glorious. Sin is banished, and Divine Life is given, life which enables that person to live in union with God, and in the hope of attaining Heaven, by the grace of Christ.

It's as if the Father's hand reaches out across those places where confessions are heard. The Father is truly reaching out to help us though His priests, acting in and through them as they forgive sins in Jesus' name.

Our spiritual Communion, in the Communion of Saints, is like the connection in a conference call. We must keep the transmitter in good order, and the lines open by taking care of our souls. If we refuse to forgive anyone, for example, it's as if we deliberately walk away from God and our friends.

A surgeon who gives a serious diagnosis sometimes has little hope of a cure. A priest who has to 'diagnose' serious sin can offer, as a cure, complete forgiveness and peace to those who sincerely repent!

A surgeon who gives a serious diagnosis sometimes has little hope of a cure. A priest who has to 'diagnose' serious sin can offer, as a cure, complete forgiveness and peace to those who sincerely repent!