“May the Lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.”
What prevents us from doing that? We won’t confess our sins unless we are convinced of the reality of God and the possibility of a personal relationship with Him. Vaguely identifying as Christian is not enough. It must affect the way I live my life. A well spent Advent nourishes this sense of reality. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son.” God exists; God cares; God gets involved. Very soon we meet Him in the Crib. We will meet Him at the end of time. We want to do so prepared and at rights with Him.
