“God forgive us the sins of our youth!”
Dorothy Day wrote this in 1973, in Commonweal.
She wasn’t direct. And she told us that.
Day wrote:
As Zachariah sang out, “We have knowledge of salvation through forgiveness of our sins.” I don’t think anyone recognizes the comfort of this text better than I do. I have not yet been attracted by the present tendency to bring everything out into the light of day by public and published confessions. Were we not taught by Holy Mother Church to respect the modesty of the confessional? Or is that a silly expression? But oh the joy of knowing that you can always go
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