"So, if I go on to confess, not what I was, but what I am, the good that comes of it is this. There is joy in my heart when I confess to you, yet there is fear as well, there is sorrow, and yet hope. But I confess not only to you but also to all believers; all who share my joy and all who, like me, are destined to die; all who are my fellows in your kingdom and all who accompany me on the pilgrimage, whether they have gone before or are still to come or are with me as I make my way through life." St Augustine of Hippo
Plaque, right posted outside of a Confessional of Cathedral of St Paul in St Paul MN.