Leon, from the Philippines: "Very often we hear arguments: why do I have to go to a priest, why do I have to speak my sins? Well, you see, this is not a draconian requirement put on us by Our Lord but actually a sign of his love, that he has wanted to speak the language of the senses, the language of words and with those languages .. he has wanted to say to us 'I absolve you of your sins. I forgive you.' So that with the very ears with which hear the car horns on the street, the very ears with which we hear the most mundane things, we can hear his mercy. And his mercy spoken specifically to our own words, our own description of our sins. .. That's confession!" Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Catherine, from Ireland: "The Sacrament of Reconciliation - I just can't encourage you enough in it, it's such a beautiful sacrament. It has brought so much healing into my life. The reason that God has given us this sacrament is really to help us in our lives. He doesn't want us carrying all that baggage, He doesn't want us carrying all that pain and the hurt, He wants us to be free from it. .. So I can't encourage you enough in that. Just to realise that we all get it wrong, we all make mistakes. So don't be afraid!" Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

David, from Ireland: "God will always forgive and there's nothing so great.... the depth of your sins can never equal the depth of God’s mercy and love, and that's one thing I find every time I go to confession. It's almost a safety net there: I know that there's nothing really so bad that I can't talk to God and confess myself." Enrique, from Madrid, in English and Spanish: "I just find every week when I can go to confession it’s like starting all over again. It doesn’t matter what mistakes one makes, even if it’s the same ones every week, it's the starting over again with a new strength, a new grace." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Fergus, from London: "When I walked out of the confessional, I felt like I had no excuse not to do anything coz the Lord had forgiven me even if I hadn’t forgiven myself. So I could do the works that He needed me to do and I had no excuse not to do it. And it just gives me a lot of courage and impetus. And it really helps me to bring me back down to earth, coz sometimes I can like achieve in areas of life and then I view myself as perfect, and that's a bad way to live. And confession just helps bring me down to earth and see people eye to eye, and to realise that I am a flawed being but above all I'm a very loved being by God. And just to find an encounter with love and mercy is just like the most personal and special moment. So confession ... has set me free in many ways." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Kelly, from Sierra Leone: "I like confession because it helps you release all of your sins and you feel like you can trust God more and you can let go of everything and can like begin to settle down. And it just helps you tune into your faith more because you can understand God more and know that He loves you." Emily, from the UK: "I suppose confession can be a struggle and difficult and sometimes embarrassing but I know that God has really used it in my life to affirm me of his love for me. And suddenly I find myself not thinking about my failings and my faults but somehow realising quite how much He loves me and has reached out to me in the Sacrament through his priests, for which I am always deeply grateful and so touched." Emmett, from London: "Confession is liberating. It allows you to speak from the soul and gives you inner peace. So, who doesn't want that?" Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Perrine, from France: "This is a feeling that remained a long time in my heart. I always had this fear because I think that I didn’t really encounter God at that time, I didn't know that Jesus was a complete loving God, that he was all goodness and he wanted me to be good also and beautiful. And then one day I realised it and this feeling of fear disappeared and it was transformed also by time. Then one day I kind of realised that I wanted to go to confession, this is something I wanted because I knew that behind the priest was God, was Jesus and Jesus loved me. .. I'm always moved by this experience. I know that I'm weak, I know that I still do things wrong, but I know that God loves me and he wants me to be better and he will help me doing that and confession is that." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Perrine, de France: "J’imagine Jésus derrière le prêtre qui m’accueille, qui me pardonne et qui est là pour moi, pour m’aimer, pour me dire 'Perrine, je t'aime, je t'aime. Je veux t'apprendre comment aimer mieux, comment je veux te voir dans le bonheur, t'enlever de l'esclavage du péché qui te fait du mal, et te recevoir et t'aimer et te pardonner toujours, toujours, car Dieu pardonne toujours. Merci Seigneur." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more - dedicated to Our Lady, it is inspired by our holy fathers St John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady - Mary is also everything to us, Totus2us.

Phil, from the UK: "I feel a lot of resistance going to confession but I make myself go anyway, go regularly, because I know that God wants me to go, and He's kind of breaking me and molding me. I kind of get caked up and clogged up, but going to confession I will become loosened and supple spiritually again … His grace will mend me and keep me going, because it's really important." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more, which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady.

Erin-Thérèse, from the USA: "This particular priest, after very patiently listening to my confession, just asked me ‘So, you were an atheist. How did you come to the Church?’ Instead of launching into the ordinary form of absolution in a rote way, he really wanted to talk to me about my faith. It was difficult to think of a quick answer to such a big question but after a second I simply said ‘Well, I could no longer deny the reality of God in my life and I fell in love with Jesus Christ.’ I’ll never forget the wisdom that that priest showed in giving me the opportunity to go back to that place of first love and of first conversion, in the midst of spiritual trouble. That was exactly what I needed, and that's what the confession, the Sacrament, is for; it's to remind of the love in which we're rooted, the transcendent love of God that has the power to heal anything." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more, which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady.

Dominic, from Poland: "Just two years ago I started to look closer to God. God appeared in my life stronger than He did in the past. It was more that I started to see Him and He started to show me that the life I'm living (I always knew that I wasn't happy) but He emphasised changes in me and He gave me some faith, he gave me faith to be thankful for the change that appeared in me, and it was really strong. … Just before we got married, I went to confession and I felt much, much better and I felt that God had taken everything from me. I felt stronger to get on with my life, I felt stronger to say no to my addictions, I felt stronger not to do the things that Satan is giving us. Yes, I felt much stronger and then it was just better and better, and I started going to Communion, and my life is much, much easier now than it was before the wedding. It is now 1 year and 3 months and it's really good, even though I'm still a sinner, I'm still going on my knees because of my sins, but I know I have to come up, I have to feel sorry, but I can't allow myself feel down for too long, as I used to do before - I was very miserable and felt sorry for myself. But I'm trying not to do that anymore, and I feel strong inside me and I feel God in me and in the people around me. .. And God is healing me every day since that day, and even before, and I'm thankful to God." Track: 'Fighting the Lukewarm Cold' by Joe Zambon. Visit Totus2us.com for much more, which is inspired by Blessed John Paul II, Papa Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was JPII's motto to Our Lady.