Catholic reflections, By Ryan Pinto

 

Topic: Repentance

Dear brothers and sisters,

Now a day’s repentance is missing in our lives and without repentance we cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Three reason behind why we don’t repent

1. Not believing completely in God,

2. Having pride

3. Sin.

Now firstly we Christians aren’t paying any attention to our spiritual life and are distracted most of the times when we pray. We think that through the sacraments we are known as Catholics, we all should know that  sacraments are important for a Catholics but a true Catholic is the one who leads his spiritual life with dedication, faith and devotion in Jesus Christ but many of us of ignorant and we call ourselves as Catholics only from the outer appearance but inside us there are no values of Catholic teachings in our life .

 

Dear brothers and sister we need to change because without repenting we cannot change ourselves. Another deadly thing that doesn’t allow us to come closer to God is pride. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins which destroys many of us because when we are full of pride we think that we are greater than God .we have to repent and ask Gods pardon for the sins committed, from pride nothing is gained but a full loss.

Most of us are struggling with one or the other sins in our life and there is no one in this world that has not sinned. Dear brothers and sisters God is telling us today that we all are not perfect, yes all of us aren’t perfect but God is inspiring us today to change our minds and work hard towards perfection by the act of repentance.

Failures happen in life but we should not live in failures always we should get out of it and repent. It is very difficult to repent but we must make up our mind and  leave this sinful worldly thoughts and believe in God ,change ourselves because if we don’t repent today tomorrow we are going to suffer. We need to repent as soon as possible and not delay the great chance that God has given us because we do not know when death will come.

Repentance is a transformation of one’s self from the old sinful life to a new life of love and grace where there is light and goodness.

 

Dear brothers and sisters let us not take our chance for granted and become lazy but rather let us work hard to achieve the chance of transformation of a new life of Gods great love. Amen.