Our Lady's Tears: Confession Holy Card

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Confession Holy Card

French translation: "I shall penetrate your heart with a great abhorrence of sin."

Another great holy card from Micki at Holy Cards for Your Inspiration that I had to share with you. Frequent confession is truly key to achieving holiness in this life. Only through fastidious and frequent examination of conscience, contrition and absolution can we hope to have our souls cleansed and healed by God. Jesus told St. Faustina that He speaks directly to us through the priest in confession: "It is only the lips of the priest, but I who am speaking." (paraphrased) I love the way the Angel Guardian bends to whisper in the ear of the penitent woman - amazing.

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St. Winifred

Also St. Gwenfrewy or Winefride, she was the daughter of a Welsh nobleman, Tyfid ap Eiludd. Her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun, and decapitated her. Her head rolled downhill, and, where it stopped, a healing spring appeared. Winefride's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of her maternal uncle, Saint Beuno, and she was restored to life. She later became a nun and abbess at Gwytherin in Denbighshire, and Caradog, cursed by St. Beuno, melted into the ground. She died 660.