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Handbook For Lent

An Invitation

Subjects > Religion > Lent > Lutheran Guide To Lent

A Handbook For The Discipline Of Lent

By The Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel - Evangelical Church in America

Should I Go to Confession?

"Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed" (James 5:16). "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).

The Church of Jesus Christ has always provided a means by which Christians burdened by sin may confess and find the healing grace of personal forgiveness. Jesus forgave sins as a part of healing and charged his disciples to do the same (Luke 5:17-26; John 20:22-23).

Martin Luther regarded private confession as a "precious and comforting treasure' (Large Catechism 457:7), because it "strengthens and consoles the conscience" (Apology to the Augsburg Confession XII:39).

Should I go to private confession? Examine yourself and your relationship with God and with others. Is there something in the way? Is there something you have trouble forgetting? Private confession is an exercise in complete honesty about ourselves that seeks to remove obstacles to our spiritual growth in Christ. Read the rite of "Individual Confession and Forgiveness" on p.196 in the Lutheran Book of Worship and decide for yourself.

See also:

• Lutheran Guide To Lent
  • Handbook For Lent - An Invitation
  • Handbook For Lent - Table Of Contents
  • Handbook For Lent - Lenten Opportunities
  • Handbook For Lent - What Is Lent ?
  • Handbook For Lent - The Discipline of Lent
    • Handbook For Lent - Repentance
    • Handbook For Lent - Prayer
    • Handbook For Lent - Fasting
    • Handbook For Lent - Works of Love
    • Handbook For Lent - Beginning Your Discipline
    • Handbook For Lent - Keeping Your Discipline
  • Handbook For Lent - Making the Sign of the Cross
  • Handbook For Lent - Should I Go to Confession ?
  • Handbook For Lent - How to Go to Confession
    • from Martin Luther's Small Catechism
  • Handbook For Lent - The Tradition of the Stations of the Cross
  • Handbook For Lent - The Triduum - The Three Sacred Days
    • Handbook For Lent - Maundy Thursday
    • [Handbook For Lent - Good Friday]?Create
    • Handbook For Lent - The Great Vigil of Easter
  • Handbook For Lent - Blessings over Food at Easter

See also:

• http://www.members.aol.com/LiturgybyTLW1/Seasonal/Lent/Discipln.html
• Articles about the Holy See and the Pope
• [Shroud Of Turin Internet Guide]

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