How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God

by John A. Kane and Fr John A. Kane

Book Overview

How to make your Confessions less difficult and more fruitful.

If you still drag your feet about going to Confession, here's the help you need to enable you to overcome your reluctance and open your soul to the vast reservoir of mercy found in Confession.

This down-to-earth, practical guide shows you how to transform your confessions from embarrassing moments in a dark room into profound experiences of God's love. The author,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1928832296
• ISBN13: 9781928832294
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great for a Catholic growing in Faith

I agree that this isn't a great text for beginning Catholics or those new to the Faith, but better for a Catholic looking for answers on Confession, Penance, Reconcilliation and Sin. The reflections on the 10 commmandments are great. Remember folks, the original publication date was 1943, pre-Vatican II.

Difficult things

Thinking is difficult, and meditation is difficult, and meditative silence over a long period of time is very difficult, because we are in a society which doesn't allow for any of this. Television, movies, sports, all fill our brains and have done so since the 1950s. So to read a book for one's benefit which was written before that time is to enter a privileged world, a deep silence. I highly recommend this to anyone who desires to know God and himself better. I was not upset by either the writing style (which I thought very readable) or the Biblical innacurracies (the Mary things are debatable, and in all else, this was an incredibly Biblical book) but was challanged by the whole premise of repentance. Protestants gave up Confession long ago, and most Catholics only recently. Yet Christ says, "Unless you repent . . ." Maybe that's what's wrong with the world.

Great for the advanced reader

I purchased this book for someone new to the Catholic Faith and who wanted a better understanding of Confession--how to do it, the "procedure" of this beautiful Sacrament, points to examine ones conscious. They began reading the book and gave it back to me because the writing style/use of big words was too difficult. So I read the book myself and I wouldn't recommend it for the beginner, but it's very good for one a bit more advanced. This book spends most of it's time helping one to gain a deeper understanding of the gravity of sin. The appendix includes the "process" of Confession and many wonderful questions to examine ones conscious to each of the Ten Commandments. I kept the book and will read it again, but I would not recommend it to someone new to the Faith.