Now some of you reading this may think, "Why in the world should I have to go to a priest and tell them all the ways i've messed up? Why can't I just pray to God for forgiveness and that be the end of it?" Well the simple answer is because Jesus was the one to instigate confession, and I can't really say any better than this website: http://www.catholicfaithandreason.org/confession-of-sins---how-biblical-is-it.html. They explain the instigation and need for it using scripture that we all know and love.
I feel like we should also look at it from a very human perspective. Confession cleans us of everything that we have done to our soul, and to Christ on the walk to Calvary. But, if you wish to take away the Bible and just look at this logically, you will see that this sacrament does make since. For example: you and your friend get into a fight and you say some horrible things about them and then later realize that you did not mean any of them but that you were just angry. The friend was incredibly hurt by your words, so when you go to them and as forgiveness they may still be angry with you but you feel better for know that they know you did not mean it. I speak from experience in the fact that in real life this is not always how it goes, but God is all powerful and all forgiving. He forgives our sins before we commit them. The reason we go into the confessional is so we have that cleansing.
This sacrament, like many, was designed for us. So that we may feel Gods love and forgiveness, not so that God can lord over us all that we've done wrong or to embrace us in front of our parish priest. I know that I can tell when I haven't been in a while. I start getting grouchy and can't think I can do anything right, but after I feel like a whole new person.
Please, if you haven't been in a while there's no better time than now to go. Especially with Christmas around the corner! You can start the new year off right, with a clean soul and a clean conscious!
God Bless!
Clara
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