NOTES for Luk 15:1-10

A person seldom rejoices when coming to confession. It is a difficult and unpleasant matter. What is especially unpleasant is that this is not the first time, and far from the last, when we will need to correct something through God’s direct intervention. Or else confession has become routine and arouses no emotion at all. That is the human point of view. But there is another way of seeing things. The angels rejoice over one sinner who repents as we would rejoice if we recovered a tenth of everything we own. It would be good to remember this the next time before confession.