Mexico City, Mexico, Dec 6, 2018 / 00:00 am
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City will host on Dec. 7 a "Day of Forgiveness," in which for 10 consecutive hours priests will hear confessions.
"Four years ago the priests serving the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico proposed holding a day of confessions during the major liturgical seasons, Lent to prepare for Easter and Advent to celebrate Christmas." Fr. Hugo Valdemar Romero, a canon penitentiary of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language sister agency.
From the first occasion, the Mexican priest recalled, this confession marathon "has had great success, both for the participation of priests to hear confessions and the participation of the People of God, who came in huge numbers."
In confession, he emphasized, the faithful find "the consolation and forgiveness of God."