for Christians—and for the world. They remind us who we are, in whom we believe, in whose name we were baptized, and whose footsteps we follow. The sacraments challenge us to remember that, should the world want to know what we Christians believe, they have every right to look first at what we do. As the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar once remarked, “The value of Christianity need not be seen in itself; but it must be seen in us.” If “going to confession” is to be experienced by our people as