Thursday, February 27, 2014

Cardinal Tagle on Confession and Love

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I was able to watch this episode at home before I went to Mass that Sunday.  The Word Exposed is a Jesuit Communications show featuring Luis Cardinal Tagle giving his reflections on the liturgy of the Word for a particular Sunday.  Afterwards, he tries to answer questions taken from Facebook and other media.  Since we're about the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I got excited when I watched it.


There's a part where I liked in which he reiterated a question: "Why does the Sacrament of Confession have many names?"  Click the link to watch the video.  You can also watch his homily on the Gospel for that day which is about true free will, grace, and God's love fulfilled by Our Lord as Jesus fulfills the law as "the apex of the freedom is found in love" and "only in the heart where true love, pure love is found can we also find true freedom and true obedience to the will of God".  




I heard this awhile back from Christopher West, talking about Blessed John Paul II's TOB.  He described the fulfillment of the law as a spouse in love, and with that he or she will not even think of stealing from the spouse or looking or thinking of another person other than the spouse.  In true love, the natural law is very much fulfilled in the person.


You can check the Word Exposed on Facebook and at Jesuit Communications and see their excellent apostolate.  


Source:


Jesuit Communications. The Faith Explained: Confession. February 16, 2014. web

Luis Cardinal Tagle. The Faith Explained: Confession. February 16, 2014. web
Luis Cardinal Tagle. Gospel for February 16, 2014. February 16, 2014. web




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