
It is Christ in us who receives another’s secret in confidence, and we are to be his trustworthy ministers. The same, I’d say, holds for all the baptized who have become the ears, eyes, and heart of Christ. It is stripping ourselves of all false excuses and shams and pretenses and revealing ourselves as we really are.”Īnd why do we feel such reckless freedom to strip naked before God in that sacrament? The absolute seal of confidentiality, as it is Christ who receives my secrets, not the priest. Don’t throw it to the swine to be trampled.” I couldn’t help but thinking that day of Fulton Sheen’s words: “What is Confession? Nudity. A confessor once said to me, “If you demand others to respect confidentiality, you have to hold yourself first to the highest standard.” He added, “When someone opens their trust and reveals to you a secret to be kept, you become a sanctuary with a tabernacle in which they reserve their pearl of great price. Yet I myself have failed innumerable times over the years in keeping to this law. If I let it slip from my tongue, I am its prisoner.” Or as Schopenhauer once put it, “If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.My father used to say, “With almost no exceptions, assume that anything you say to anyone will be known to all at some point.” In other words, realize that people who truly hold confidences are few, and so entrust your sacred secrets to only those rare people who have proven themselves worthy. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms.

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