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Christ welcomes the contrite and willing soul into the heart of the Holy Trinity. "Those who hide in Him shall not be condemned" (Ps 33)

Christ welcomes the contrite and willing soul into the heart of the Holy Trinity. "Those who hide in Him shall not be condemned" (Ps 33)

He showed me how I am like a child in a baptismal robe, after sorrow and forgiveness, penance and reparation.

Christ welcomes the contrite and willing soul into the heart of the Holy Trinity. "Those who hide in Him shall not be condemned" (Ps 33)

At a word of confession and contrition, the soul soars into the heart of God, freed from its chains of sin or silliness.

By true contrition and selfless worship we can break through to meet the living, radiant Christ within our childish mental images

By true contrition and selfless worship we can break through to meet the living, radiant Christ within our childish mental images

Through contrition, repentance, penance, darkness and suffering we are purified and prepared for Heaven

A single prayer of true contrition pierces the heart of God (like a blade). The 'sweet wine' of God's peace and forgiveness pours out.

By a simple act of sincere sorrow-for-sin, it's as if we pierce the heart of God, like a blade, to effect an immediate outpouring of the 'sweet wine' which is God's forgiveness and peace.

Contrition is the 'key' by which our soul is unfailingly made 'open' to receive God's graces. True contrition is not grovelling self-pity but sincere regret-for-sin combined with confidence that God loves, forgives, and can make us holy and joyful.

Just as a wound is healed at the touch of good medicine, so sin can be banished by contrition, confession and reconciliation.

Through faith and contrition, my soul was changed as from a cavern to a cathedral, ready for worship.

We ourselves, by God's grace, can pull down the barriers that separate us from Christ. By trust and contrition, we can come closer to Him Who is with us as every Mass in all His Risen glory.

At the touch of an artist's brush, pigment fills a pool of water. By our 'touch' of contrite prayer, we 'draw' God's grace within us.

At the merest scrap of true contrition in prayer, it is as though we touch God, who pours down His forgiveness like rain.

It is by confidence in Christ, with contrition, that our hearts are purified; and the flame of praise then burns before the Father.

If we surrender ourselves to God's will in prayer and in our daily lives, the Holy Spirit will transform us and make us holy

After reflecting on my day I can 'strain' out faults and failings, by contrition, as I once 'sieved out' stones from a flowerbed.

An act of contrition is like a straw thrown onto the fire of Christ's praise which arises from my heart to the Father. It gives Him glory.