On all days, the priests used concrete examples. How would you behave – would you even sit with Jesus at the table of the Last Supper? What would you do if you could be with Jesus before his arrest in the Garden?
Crying in the Confessional
On the third day was the time of confession. The priest whom I liked the most heard my confession. Wow, I cried. Not tears of sorrow, but tears of joy about the special grace of God which was given to me.
What a blessing these retreats are. The experience has changed my life and the lives of the people with whom I share my life. Now I know what the main responsibility and foundations are in a human life.
What is my primary responsibility? What is my earthly goal? First, to save my soul. Man is created to honor and serve God, and so his soul can go back to God. Second, all other things on the face of the earth are created for man to serve him in achieving this task. One can make use of them, insofar as they help one to attain one’s heavenly goal. Otherwise you have to renounce them, insofar as they represent an obstacle in the way of this.
Unfortunately, many people in Germany and in the Western world no longer know what the goal of human life is. But there is a 16th Century Basque who can tell them.
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