When there is the kind of repetitiveness that becomes a habit, you cannot grow in the awareness of yourself or of the Lord; it would be like not acknowledging that you have sinned or that you have wounds that need healing. The routine confession is a bit like the example of the dry cleaner that I mentioned earlier. So many people are wounded, not least psychologically, and do not even realize that they are. That is what I have to say about people who confess by rote….
