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Lent is an especially penitential season, meaning that during Lent we are called to make an extra effort to examine our lives and to strive to live in greater conformity with our faith, to imitate Jesus in a greater way.
At the same time, the Church’s requirement to go to Confession once a year is only the bare minimum; we are highly encouraged to receive this sacrament regularly and often. It’s certainly true that those who have not received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for a long period of time often find it difficult to receive the sacrament, and in many ways this is understandable: it is humbling to tell your sins to another person. But we can and must take solace in the fact that this sacrament is in fact a gift from God to us.
It’s worth noting that the form for the sacrament as we’ve been practising it since around the 11th century is far easier than it was in the early centuries of the Church. Back then, in many places, the norm was you confessed your serious sins in public, before the entire congregation, and the penances given were often not complete for weeks or months.
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