Penance
Actually, before going back to Sacramento, there is one more particular that needs mentioning, one without which no vine would have grown: penance. It is funny how, all these years being Catholic and going to Confession as regularly as possible, I never thought about or asked myself, or anyone else, why we get penance after Confession. It might have been explained when I was a kid getting ready for the Sacrament but, honestly, I don’t remember. Pretty bad, I know….