More wisdom from Adrienne von Speyr

 
 
 

The penitent perceives absolution as a humbling experience: he can do nothing; God can do everything. This is the crowning of the humbling experience of confession as a whole…

—Adrienne von Speyr

from her book Confession

 

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THE HEALING OF CONFESSION

In this second edition of her profound book on confession, which theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar calls “one of her most central works,” Adrienne von Speyr discusses the moral and practical aspects of this sacrament in great depth. Its practical applicability to one’s own confession emerges from every page.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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