I hear lots and lots of confessions. What I hear most is a person telling me that he or she broke one of the Church’s rules. “Father, I didn’t go to Mass on a Holy Day.” What I rarely hear is someone confessing that he or she didn’t love. Jesus tells us the Great Commandment of Love is essential. We are told that if we love the way Jesus defines love, everything else is, at best, secondary. We are told by no less an authority than St. Augustine that if we live a life of Christian love, we really don’t need to do anything else, including worrying about the rules. If Christian love permeates our lives, St. Augustine says we’ll just naturally do the right thing.