For Your Weekend: It’s Time to Go Home

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 15:1–3,11–32

I keep hearing the thought that I need to make a “general confession.” And I don’t like it. 

A general confession is when you make an appointment to confess all the sins of your life instead of just those committed since your last confession. It requires a deeper examination, a boatload of courage, and quite possibly a glass of wine. As dreadful as it sounds, “making a general confession,” writes Father John Bartunek, “can be an effective w...