
Beginning Again: Recovering Your Innocence and Joy Through Confession
Catherine Doherty and the Catechism of the Catholic Church will show you the healing joy and spiritual restoration that awaits in confession, the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
“With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.”
After sin, can love be rekindled, innocence renewed, joy restored?
There is a great miracle in God, a great gift of God—what is lost can be restored! Using the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the writings of Catherine Doherty, Beginning Again will show you the healing joy and spiritual restoration that awaits in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
What torture you feel after you’ve uttered an unguarded word or behaved callously toward your beloved! The distance feels like a chasm. You hear the echo in your heart. You’re distracted and restless. You feel sick. Your sorrow torments you. You bathe your heart in tears. Can the innocence be recovered? The love rekindled? The joy restored?
Jesus is the Bridegroom, and we are his bride. Jesus knows our torment. He knows that we fear we’ve broken our relationship with him through sin. He knows our fear of being forgotten, rejected, abandoned. He knows our shame. But Jesus is the most generous of lovers. He established the sacrament of confession so that we do not need to lose one moment of our life with him wallowing in guilt and misery.
Catherine tells us, “Christ’s mercy was too immense to allow innocence to be destroyed without showing a way to restore it. So he gave us the sacraments of Penance and of the Eucharist which restore people to pristine innocence. It is yours for the asking, because he is in love with you.” Only Love could create such a generous gift.
Catherine’s book isn’t meant to be an extensive curriculum on confession. Rather, she speaks from her heart as a laywoman longing for reconciliation with her Beloved. Let her tender, passionate recounting of moments from her own love life with God teach you how to return to your Beloved’s heart through the sacrament of confession after you’ve been distracted and forgotten him who loves you more than you love yourself.
About the author Catherine Doherty
140 pages — Trade Paperback, 4.25″ x 7″ — Madonna House Publications, 2004 — ISBN 978-0-921440-94-9
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