Saturday September 27, 2025
Good News Reflections:
Making scripture meaningful to your daily life
by Terry Modica
“The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock.” (From today’s responsorial Psalm)
Good News Reflection for:
Saturday of the 25th Week of Ordinary Time
September 27, 2025
Today’s Readings:
Zechariah 2:5-9,14-15a
Jeremiah 31:10-13
Luke 9:43b-45
bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092521.cfm
Podcast:
bible.usccb.org/podcasts/audio/daily-mass-reading-podcast-september-27-2025
Why go to a priest for Confession instead of God?
Since God hears and answers our prayers, we can confess our sins directly to God; why go to a Catholic priest?
God always forgives us when we go directly to him, one-on-one, but Christ also provides special additional graces when we go to God via the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
A sacrament is a divine, direct intervention of Christ provided through the apostolic priesthood.
Everything we do creates ripples in the stream of life that reach much farther than we can see. Even our small deeds of kindness make a wide-spread difference. So too our sins. Therefore, God has provided a means for dealing with the ripple effects of sin.
It’s impossible for us to go directly to each and every person who deserves our remorseful apology. So, in God’s great mercy, he provides a way to accomplish it: Not only does Jesus himself come to us in the priests of the Church, but these priests also stand in for the community of the Church. The ripple effect of this sacrament reaches those who have been harmed by our sins.
God is a God of reconciliation. He provides it as a sacrament so that we can receive directly from Jesus the healing that reunites us to his Divinity and to each member of his earthly Body.
In the Sacrament of Confession, we acknowledge that we have divided ourselves from God and from others. In Confession, the priest sits in for Christ and for the whole Church and accepts our repentance and pronounces the absolution of our sins (which is psychologically beneficial to hear spoken with an actual voice instead of just the voice of God in our hearts, which sounds like our own inner voice).
Through this communal, person-to-person experience of confession and absolution of our sins, we are then reconciled with everyone. We might still have to apologize to specific individuals to make amends with them, and we will still have to make reparations for the harm we caused, but in this sacrament, Christ wipes away the division that was caused by our sins.
For more on this, please go to the full article @ wordbytes.org/faqs/why-priest-confession/.
© 2025 by Terry A. Modica
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