A Tenth Station Confession

Our Marian Pulpit author Rich Agnello invites you to rediscover the Sacrament of Confession in the bold and powerful way he once did: Gazing upon the Tenth Station of the Cross, Jesus is Stripped of His Garments, in the church where he was married.

A Tenth Station Confession provides the penitent with a guide along the Stations of the Cross that allows Jesus’ way of suffering, or Via Dolorosa, to accompany ours before, during, and after we partake in this great healing and merciful sacrament of our Catholic Church.

Agnello shows us quite simply and yet very efficaciously that from the first through tenth stations, Jesus and we walk together towards Calvary’s agony. Like Him, there is condemnation, the decision to take up a path of atonement, and despite much support, we fall like Christ over and over (and over) along the way. However, the Eleventh Station, Jesus is Nailed to the Cross, changes the equation profoundly, as He directly and unabashedly takes on death and undeniably defeats it!

Throughout A Tenth Station Confession, Christ Jesus forcefully refutes each and every one of Satan’s accusations during each Station of the Cross with His own redeeming responses while we go through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. And while it may seem as if nothing at all will change for us human sinners from crucifixion to resurrection, we need to remember that ours is a tenth station confession, not a fourteenth station false promise.

Forgiveness and redemption are our gifts from a savior that asks but one request from our human free will: That we freely choose to confess our sins in the presence of the priest In Persona Christi during the Sacrament of Penance, so that we may align our destinies to God’s Holy Will through His sanctifying grace.