The Laodicean Message - E.H. “Jack” Sequeira

for falsehood to be accepted as truth.
And then she goes on to say that this is exactly
where the Roman Catholics have gone wrong.
Because the Roman Catholic church teaches that
you are saved by faith plus penance; you have to
do penance when you confess your sins.
When I went to confession, I could not come
out of that confessional box free, I had to do
penance. And, you know, we young kids,
teenagers, we were smart. We would watch and
see which priest was in which box, because some
of them gave you long penance, and some of them
gave you short penance, depending on their
disposition. One of them enjoyed giving us long
penance, and none ofthe kids went to him. We
would wait. So there was a big line here, waiting
for that kind-hearted priest, and a short line for the
other priest. These were the old folks, who wanted
to do penance, who felt that the more penance you
did, the more God would accept you, these went to
him. We kids went to the other fellow; all we
wanted was absolution from our sins. So we were
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