Read How to Make a Good Confession A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God John A Kane Fr John a Kane 9781928832294 Books

Product details Paperback 144 pages Publisher Sophia Institute Press (April 1, 2001) Language English ISBN-10 1928832296

How to Make a Good Confession A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God John A Kane Fr John a Kane 9781928832294 Books Reviews

• It helped me uncover sins I.didn't,t know I had. As a result I feel more refreshed after making a good thorough confession following a better examination of conscience.
• 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.
• Short. Not very comprehensive or helpful.
• I was an evangelical Protestant until the age of 60. The whole Confession Sacrament has been a revelation. That's partly because thinking is difficult, and meditation is difficult, and meditative silence over a long period of time is very difficult, and confession involves all that. We are in a society which has lost the art of meditation, as a whole. So to read a book for one's benefit which was written before the time of tv and internet and constant broadcasting 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 Magdalene "facts" are debatable), though as a whole this was an incredibly Biblical book, but I was challenged by the whole premise of sacramental absolution. Protestants gave up Confession long ago, and many Catholics only recently. Yet Christ says, "Unless you repent . . ." Maybe that's what's wrong with the world.
  
  Disclosure re-reading my review seven years later, August 2014, I changed some wording for clarity.
• Recommended from a podcast... great book
• Excellent guide for a peaceful life.
• This is a great guide for examining one's conscience in preparing to make a sincere confession. The easy to understand writing style causes one to think carefully about their life decisions both past, present, and for the future.
• This is an outstanding book!!! I was going to read it with a highlighter, but I found that I wanted to highlight each and every sentence. This is a book I will read over and over again.