Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

So one of the things I love to do as a Catholic priest and I love hearing confessions,

not because I like the dirt on people.

You know, I don't hardly remember anything I hear in confession.

This thing I call divine amnesia.

The thing I love about confession is it's always a place of victory.

It's always a place where people are returning to Jesus.

It's really remarkable.

But one of the things I've noticed sometimes is that when someone comes back to confession,

if they've been gone for a long time, say, you know, Father,

I'd spend 30 years in my last confession, 50 years since my last confession, okay?

And what do you need to confess?

Well, you know, I was a little bit short with my wife,

where I kind of, you know, I was a little bit hard on my kids or something like this.

All right? That's it.

Okay, after 30 years, that just, all right, okay, I say, okay, let's pause.

Let's go back and ask the question, almost always ask the question.

And everyone's confession has God been number one in your life.

Have you put other things ahead of God?

And oftentimes the response is, I don't know,

I try to be a good person.

I'm like, okay, that's great.

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