Divine Mercy Sunday Epilogue

Posted: April 7, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions
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Cardinal Lamberto: Would you like, to make your confession?
Michael Corleone: [laughs] Your Eminence, I’m uh – I’m uh — it’s been so long, I wouldn’t – wouldn’t – wouldn’t know where to uh, it’s been thirty years, I’d – I’d – I’d use up too much of your time, I think.
Cardinal Lamberto: I always have time to save souls.
Michael Corleone: Well, I’m — I’m beyond redemption.
Cardinal Lamberto: [speaking in Italian to the priest looking after Dom Tommasino] Give us a couple of minutes alone please – thanks… [Turning back to Michael once they leave in English] I hear the confessions of my young priests here. Sometimes the desire to confess is overwhelming. And we must seize the moment.

Michael Corleone: What is the point of confessing, if I don’t repent?
Cardinal Lamberto: I hear you are a practical man. What have you got to lose, eh?

The Godfather Part 3 1990

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday the premier time for repentance. Yesterday I led with a quote from Godfather 2 and note that like Michael Corleone trying to convince Hyman Roth that there was nothing to fear the Devil tries to convince us that our soul is not in danger or in need of confession.

But if we are far along the path of sin there is another tack that is used, the idea that we are beyond redemption.

This is actually the standard MO for the enemy, first to minimize sin when it is happening and then to maximize it to keep you from confession.

For ten days now I’ve been arguing for doing the Divine Mercy chaplet and praying the novena and yesterday I argued for going to a Divine Mercy event today and getting confession and absolution. If none of those argument have flown with you I want to give you one final one, the same one that Cardinal Lamberto gave to Michael Corleone: What have you got to lose?

Closing thought; Here is the scene of Michael confession. Note how it ends:

The Cardinal notes that

  1. Michael’s sins are terrible
  2. It’s just that he suffers for them
  3. Michael won’t change because he [Michael] doesn’t believe he can be redeemed.

YET HE ABSOLVES HIM ANYWAYS.

Despite it all he gives Michael Corleone the clean slate and the CHANCE to choose another path. The Cardinal does his part to save Michael’s soul and give him a fresh start.. It’s on Michael to decide what to do with it.

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