Many people are surprised to discover that C.S. Lewis went to Confession. Here’s what he wrote about it:
“Of course I have had and still have plenty of temptations. Frequent and regular prayer, and frequent and regular Communions, are a great help, whether they feel at the time as if they were doing you good or whether they don’t. I also found great help in monthly confession to a wise old clergyman.”
C.S. Lewis, Letter to Harvey Karlsen (October 13th, 1961)
“…there is the gain in self-knowledge [from confession]: most of [us] have never really faced the facts about ourselves until we uttered them aloud in plain words, calling a spade a spade. I certainly feel I have profited enormously by the practice.”
C.S. Lewis, Letter to Mary Van Deusen (April 6, 1953)
