OK. I want to tell my fallen-away Catholic housemate that things WILL change for the good if she returns and confesses to a priest about her divorces and remarriages and presently going out with a man. I fear for her eternal life. I don't know where to begin the conversation even about how much I know Jesus loves me AND loves her. Yet, she MUST return to the Church by going to confession and tell her whole story.
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “Christ is not so much interested in how often in your lives you stumble and fall, as in how often you pick yourselves up again. He does not demand glittering achievements, but he wants his light to shine in you. He does not call you because you are good and perfect, but because he is good, and he wants to make you his friends. Yes, you are the light of the world because Jesus is your light. You are Christians - not because you do special and extraordinary things, but because Christ is in your life. You are holy because his grace is a work in you.”
