During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope spoke of God's call to His people to return to Him.<\/p>\n
He said God's tenderness speaks in a special way during Lent, a time to reflect and remember to return to the Father, who has the power to cleanse sinners.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Then he addressed the problem of not being able to see a priest for confession, which many Catholics do during Lent in preparation for Easter.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In this time of crisis, the pope said the Catechism clearly teaches that one can draw near to God's forgiveness, even without a priest at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 20, 2020. He added, \u201cAsk forgiveness with an act of contrition, and promise Him, 'Afterward, I will go to confession.'\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IlbXjPE55Fc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2003eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta2003int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe's capable of transforming us, of changing our hearts, but we need to take the first step: returning. It's not even going to God. No! It's simply returning home.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIf you don't find a priest to go to confession, speak to God. He's your Father. Tell Him the truth. \u2018Lord. I did this and this and this. Pardon me.\u2019 Ask His forgiveness with all your heart, with an act of contrition, and promise Him, \u2018Afterward I will go to confession.\u2019 You will return to God's grace immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n