“If men find it so difficult to make known their sins in the secrecy of confession… how will they bear to see them revealed before the universe?”

Source: Benedict_Ven

By Louis of Granada, The Sinners Guide, Chapter 8.

What shame, then, and what confusion will overwhelm the sinner when all his impurities, all his excesses, all his iniquities, hidden in the secret recesses of his heart, will be exposed, in all their enormity, to the eyes of the world!

Whose conscience is so clear that he does not blush, does not tremble, at this thought?

If men find it so difficult to make known their sins in the secrecy of confession; if many prefer to groan under the weight of their iniquities rather than declare them to God’s minister, how will they bear to see them revealed before the universe?

In their shame and confusion “they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.” Osee x.8