A certain aged Catholic priest had become deaf. So members of his parish would write out their sins on a piece of paper before going to confession.

One day, a parishioner slipped a piece of paper to the priest which read, “Two loaves of bread, a gallon of milk, a box of detergent and a pound of bananas.”

The puzzled priest scanned the note, then passed it back to the parishioner. The parishioner looked at the note, then exclaimed with horror, “Oh, no! I’ve left my sins at the grocery store.”

Well, where did you leave your sins? Where should we leave them? How can we be rid of our sins forever? The answer, of course, is repentance, which means, in essence, “turn around; go home.” Repentance is what the prodigal son did. He turned around and went back home. That’s the best way to rid your…