"Last year’s response to the program “was overwhelming. Many people said they’ve felt so blessed because it has been such a long time since they received the healing power and touch of God’s love. Many said they felt born again.”

“I was a little reluctant to the welcome the program - another night unavailable for other things……. We would have at least two priests hearing confessions here for sometimes more than two hours. It was obviously reaching people who otherwise were not being reached. It is a good tool of proclaiming the Good News of the mercy of Jesus every Lent.”

“The program was very successful in bringing back some inactive Catholics. A lot of people who came told me they haven’t been to confession in a while.”

“The true meaning of Lent is to repent and reform our lives to come closer to Jesus. Reconciliation is the high point of that. Truly, it is a sacrament in which we experience that genuine gift of God’s mercy to us but we are also attuned to how we disappoint each other. We come to that forgiveness and we have that breakthrough in which we realize, ‘I love you, Jesus. You first loved me and I just want to love you back.’”