The Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Encounter God's Merciful Love

Reconciliation literally means:  "re"  "con"  "cilia" ... "again  "with"  "eyelash"

"Reconciliation is an eyelash-to-eyelash encounter with the love and the mercy of God. It is intimate and interpersonal. More than an exchange of words or pleasantries, sorrows or penitence (though it is that), reconciliation is an intimate exchange of death and life; God replaces our death with his life – once again, in the most personal of ways." - Mark Hart