How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God [Paperback]

John A. Kane (Author), Fr John a. Kane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2001

If you still drag your feet about going to Confession, here’s the help you need to enable you to overcome your reluctance and open your soul to the vast reservoir of mercy found in Confession.

This down-to-earth, practical guide shows you how to transform your confessions from embarrassing moments in a dark room into profound experiences of God’s love. The author, Fr. John Kane, provides solid guidelines for how you can (and must) make the most effective possible use of the sacrament of Reconciliation.

Even better, he shows you how to carry the grace of Confession into your daily life, so that you’ll start winning — consistently — your battles against sin.

This is a book you can return to again and again in order to renew your sense of God’s mercy — as well as to gain Fr. Kane’s help in examining your conscience and bringing your life into greater conformity with the light of the gospel.

Editorial Reviews

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"A welcome blessing. It offers a fine examination of conscience, ideally presented to meet today’s needs." -- Fr. Andrew Apostoli, author, The Gift of God: The Holy Spirit

"It is great to make a good confession. This is a good book about how to do it." -- Fr. George Rutler, author, A Crisis of Saints

"This magnificent handbook helps you deepen your repentance and make it lasting. Don’t go to Confession without it!" -- Patrick Madrid, author, Search and Rescue

About the Author

John A. Kane (1883-1962) was the first priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to hold all-night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. He is the author of Transforming Your Life Through the Eucharist, Six Lessons for Life from the School of the Cross, and The School of Mary.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press (April 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928832296
• ISBN-13: 978-1928832294
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the advanced reader, July 6, 2004

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This review is from: How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God (Paperback)

I purchased this book for someone new to the Catholic Faith and who wanted a better understanding of Confession--how to do it, the "procedure" of this beautiful Sacrament, points to examine ones conscious. They began reading the book and gave it back to me because the writing style/use of big words was too difficult. So I read the book myself and I wouldn't recommend it for the beginner, but it's very good for one a bit more advanced. This book spends most of it's time helping one to gain a deeper understanding of the gravity of sin. The appendix includes the "process" of Confession and many wonderful questions to examine ones conscious to each of the Ten Commandments. I kept the book and will read it again, but I would not recommend it to someone new to the Faith.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for a Catholic growing in Faith, January 28, 2008

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This review is from: How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God (Paperback)

I agree that this isn't a great text for beginning Catholics or those new to the Faith, but better for a Catholic looking for answers on Confession, Penance, Reconcilliation and Sin. The reflections on the 10 commmandments are great. Remember folks, the original publication date was 1943, pre-Vatican II.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult things, January 11, 2007

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Thinking is difficult, and meditation is difficult, and meditative silence over a long period of time is very difficult, because we are in a society which doesn't allow for any of this. Television, movies, sports, all fill our brains and have done so since the 1950s. So to read a book for one's benefit which was written before that time is to enter a privileged world, a deep silence. I highly recommend this to anyone who desires to know God and himself better. I was not upset by either the writing style (which I thought very readable) or the Biblical innacurracies (the Mary things are debatable, and in all else, this was an incredibly Biblical book) but was challanged by the whole premise of repentance. Protestants gave up Confession long ago, and most Catholics only recently. Yet Christ says, "Unless you repent . . ." Maybe that's what's wrong with the world.