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NB: Smoking a cigarette is not a mortal sin. In the example used the minor did several things wrong. First he believed it to be grave matter... so he made a choice which he believed to be gravely offensive (in his mind though mistaken... he was making a choice to reject God) and did it anyways. Second... he was a minor. Third... he was stealing. Fourth... he kept it from the priest thinking he was keeping something very serious which is an insult to the mercy of God. That being said... if you smoke... I recommend you quit take steps to stop smoking. Your body is not your own. At the end of his life one of the regrets of St. Francis had was not taking better care of "brother ass" i.e. his body.
Thank you for writing that. I have a question: in a similar vein, if you do something, even of grave matter, but are not understanding that it is separating you from God's grace, is it still a mortal sin ?
I’m not yet a Catholic, but whenever I think about going to confession and then hearing someone tell me that I am forgiven brings me to tears. As a Protestant I have prayed for forgiveness to God many times, but I still live with so much shame and regret. I yearn to go to confession and have that kind of peace.
I am finding my way. I have been praying the rosary almost every day for the past week. Yesterday I found the confidence to email the Catholic Church in my town and ask about their RCIA program. I pray for the strength and courage to walk into Mass this coming Sunday. It seems so intimidating to do with 2 small children (especially coming from a culture of sending your children to Sunday school) but I am feeling more and more convicted to go.
I was fully brought into the Church this past Easter Vigil. Since then I’ve gone to confession and the weight being lifted off my shoulders was near tangible and left me in tears. What you’re feeling is very real and I pray you come home, you’ll always have a place here. You will find peace. God bless you!
When my youngest son was going to do his first communion, he was around 7 years old, he had his first confession. When he was confessing, he got emotional (I could see, it was an open space in the church) and I noticed he had tears. I thought the priest told him something, so when he came to me, I asked him him what asked what happened. He couldn’t talk, so I told him to do his penance. He continued to cry and so we left, he cried like 30 minutes and then was finally was able to talk and he told me so emotional this- when I was confessing, I saw a women and I felt so much love, joy and peace. What a special gift he was given. ♥️
This is so touching. When I read your comment, I immediately thought Our Blessed Mother came to your son because he is meant to be a Marian priest one day. Regardless, whatever God calls him to be, may he feel safe covered by Our Mother's mantle of love all the days of his life.
Stand up together against the people trying to destroy it. Many aren’t Catholics. They are just using the power of the Church to oppress society and look to weaken the Church and the power of the Sacraments.
I confess every week. Because i know that i sinned and made Jesus very sad. When i sin, i feel so suffocated until i confess. I dont care who is in the confessional. I confess my sins, because i hurt my Jesus.
So relatable, I finally confessed masturbating and watching porn after years of thinking I will never do it and maybe only on my deathbed. I prayed the rosary too for a whole week on my knees for the courage to go and the only reason why I finally confessed it is because I prayed the rosary for it.
As a word of advice to the younger people watching, if you have any doubts in your conscience WHATSOEVER, talk to your priest. You can't outrun your sins, and the longer you live against your conscience, I can promise you the web you weave will only become even more tangled.
Fr. Matthias heard my confession last month! Thanks be to God for His love and mercy in the sacrament of confession. Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you @GabiAfterHours and Fr. Matthias!
Actually we need more hours of Confession. Most Churches near me only offer 1-2 hours per week . But there’s one Church nearby that offers 6-8 hours per week . I think every Church should offer at least 6 hours per week , considering all of the parishioners.
If you live in America, you do not live in a Catholic country. I remember going to confession and watching the priest just stand there by himself waiting for someone to show up. Whereas, in Mexico [a Catholic country], they have tons of priests hearing confessions while the other priest celebrates mass. Our priests are more than happy to make an appointment with you if you cannot make the confession times. Just give them a call and you’ll see. There is no reason for them to waste time when they could be administering other sacraments like the anointing of the sick.
@@coolcatbaron We need more priests, more marriages and more parent’s encouraging their son’s to consider the priesthood as a vocation. Sadly, many parents prefer that their children remain close by and want grandchildren. Until then, we will need to make appointments. In my opinion, it’s better to make an appointment because we don’t need to rush for the sake of the people waiting in line.
Thank you Gabi. I am a religious education teacher for elementary middle and high school students. Your page aka the Blessed Mothers page has helped and confirmed so much. Thank you for consecrating everything to her
As someone who has been struggling with the same sins and I’d felt like I’m reducing the efficacy of the Sacrament, but how foolish of me? This is a cool video! A call to do a better examination of conscience
I have no idea how videos become “shorts” so even more people will listen to them …but this is definitely something that has got to go viral. I do pray for more priests and more time scheduled for confessions . I go often to the one hour sessions, and the lines are very long … I see that there are only five minutes left and there are still 5 and 15 people waiting sometimes. So this problem of incomplete confessions compounds when people rush through confessions.
Hello everyone! If you could please pray for me I would be very grateful…I drifted from God and need to go to confession but I’m really struggling with preparing for it (I know how to, I just can’t seem to be able to sit down and just do it) and I also struggle a lot with pride so I’m just scared for the state of my soul. God bless anyone who wants to help, and Mary keep you🤍
You can do this. God loves you in all your imperfections. Go say a good confession and then forgive yourself for all the wrong and leave it behind you. God will take those sins from you. Let him.
I like to refer to the Sacrament of Confession as the “hinge sacrament,” because it opens the door to the path leading us to the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Eucharist.
@@susankbboudreaux4540 Ask four priests you get four opinions. Sometimes it really doesn't feel like Catholicism was made for people like us. I end up staying away from confession for multiple months just because I can't figure out if something was a mortal sin or not, and I find the risk of commiting sacrilege too high to chance it
I feel like I'm just going to have to accept that I'm going to hell in order to have any peace. But I don't know. I'm going to try going to therapy and see if that does anything
@@Aryanne_v2 This is scrupulosity. A person suffering from a scrupulous conscious is not obliged to confess doubtful sins. Please go to confession regularly, every month, without anxiety. Please read the pamphlet by Servant of God Fr. Willie Doyle, a heroic WW1 chaplain called ´Scruples and their Treatment`
If you withheld a mortal sin in confession, do you need to confess all your previously confessed sins? In my case, I experienced impure thoughts about Our Lord and Our Lady, but I don’t remember if I consented to them or not.
Confession and repentance are different having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and praying directly to him is the way he sead he is the way the truth and the life amen when another says they are acting on is behalf there is know need when you are paying directly to Jesus Christ amen individuals should only trust in Jesus Christ many that have worked in the catholic church have turned out to have committed unimaginable sinns when a individual is praying to Jesus Christ it is pure God bless you all through Jesus Christ amen
If we're lucky, theres 15 or rather 10 mins of Confession before mass and mist times, the priest arrives at the church for mass 5 mins before, in time to get dressed up.. 😢
Going to Confession would be great, but tell me what Priest has time for a 3-hr. Confession? I asked a Priest (not too long ago) "how long should it take for a person to go to Confession?" His INSTANTANEOUS response was "2 minutes," so what did that tell ME?
Seriously... your confession shouldn't last longer than 10 minutes absolutely maximum... like if you hadn't confessed in 30 years. Normal confessions last 3-4 minutes each. You mention any grave matter in kind and number if you have them... then your predominant venial sins. If you don't have mortal sin you can give only venial sins. What it was and how many times. Save your stories.
You misunderstand the Sacrament. Spiritual Direction might be what you need. Father does not need a history. He needs the number and type of sins so that he may take YOUR SINS upon himself, do penance and offer the sins to God for destruction. Spiritual direction. Try it.
Paper and pen. If blind then confess direct to GOD. He will understand. I confessed for the first time in about 40 years last month. I feel different. There’s something to it. There’s always a benefit in speaking to another human being about your problems if that other human being is a representative of the church and it’s in private. It is definitely spiritually and mentally helpful.
I want to go to confession for my venial sins, but I am worried that if I go multiple times a week with only venial sins, the priest is going to tell me that I should come less often and only need to confess mortal sins. In short, I want to do more than is required by the Church, but confession lines are so busy as it is and I am afraid I will be told not to come unless it's mortal. Anyone ever encountered this before and have advice? I want to be obedient to the priest above all else.
What confuses me is that when I see God by reading the actual Word of God I want to change and stop sinning. When I go straight to Him in prayer I want to change, and my heart changes, and my behaviors change. When I ask Him for forgiveness alone, I feel His compassion and closeness, and I know He’s forgiven me. But in the confessional I have no peace, and I have little motivation to stop sinning.
Reading the Bible and turning to God in prayer and asking for forgiveness are all excellent daily practices, but especially before confession as an examination of conscience. I always feel like im walking on air after confession, like i want to shout Glory to God! But i wouldn't worry too much about the emptiness you feel after confession. Just keep going. True virtue can be accomplished when our hearts and minds are more firmly aligned by wisdom and knowledge than our feelings. God bless!
I think this may be the Devil. The last thing he (the Devil) wants is for you to be close to Jesus in Confession after He has invited you to be closer to Him through reading His Word in prayer. I would suggest you find a good spiritual director to help you with scrupulosity. This is how the Devil is taking away your peace so that you will be discouraged about receiving the other Sacraments. Once you are held from Confession by scrupulosity, you will also refrain from receiving the Eucharist for the same reason. Peace and God bless!
There are some sacraments which are inherently sacrilegious. The "Holy" Mass/Sacrifice is the foremost, being a sacrilegious act, being a diabolic act all throughout, performed as a pagan worship The second is Eucharistic Adoration, which is a pagan adoration, blatantly in violation of Jesus' mandate (John, Ch.4). The next one is Confession. Any one who practices it more than ten times or uses it twice for the same sin, commits that sacrilege. Although Priesthood is the most among all sacramental (evil) fruits, unfortunately one can commit it only once.
A reason why I never hear confessions face to face....it gives people the freedom to be anonymous.... fr can't cover everything.....his examples are broad.... in the Sacrament we often encounter firm resolve....but then .....life on life's terms arrives....lessened culpability....pressure....temptation....be bold, be brave, resolve....confess....
To my knowledge it is not a mortal, but I would recommend asking a priest! You could confess it regardless if you feel that your smoking is venial sin.
Smoking is not a mortal sin. The boy in the example was misinformed, but because he thought it was a grave offense and he did it anyways... he formerly rejected God..... and made it worse, by being a minor, stealing, and hiding it.
I think if you call and ask that you do not want a face to face confession but want an appointment, the priest can help you find a place with a wall or some partition. Try calling or emailing your bishop and explain the “a lot” problem. I know what you mean . Even when there is confession time scheduled before Mass, for us , the line is long very often and I’ve felt rushed because I’m aware that I’m not last in line yet the hour allocated to confession will be over in 5 minutes and then there are still 7 or 15 people behind me. Some churches allocate just 15 or 30 minutes for confession before Mass and the problem repeats itself and compounds when literally 20 people show up. Even when churches allocate one hours or a cut time for confession, because Mass starts right afterwards, I see it as not enough time and I wonder when they will add the second priest to the same time slot or add another time or day to the schedule. We need to also pray that more of our sons and nephews and friends become great priests like this one … and they allocate more time for confessions.
@@gabiafterhours Fr Ripperger said smoking isn’t a sin. I grew up with lots of priests who smoked. Smoking isn’t a sin unless your health is declining and you have been told to stop .
Absolutely wonderful Fr. But consider a person who has gone 7 decades of sacrilegious confessions. Finding a new priest is almost impossible but the TRUE impossibly is to remember ALL of the sins committed to make a FULL confession How do you get around that??? I am lost.
You do your best to confess all. Use a good examination... call upon Mary and the Holy Spirit. make a list... spend an hour or so doing it... then Confess. Do your best and trust that God will take care of the rest. As long as you don't KNOWINGLY omit anything all your sins are forgiven.
Every confession I say at the end "please forgive these sins AND all sins that I've forgotten" Maybe this will help your Conscience if unable to remember.
And I still don't find an answer. My priest says to just continue going to Confession, but that doesn't seem a viable option/answer. I feel I have condemned myself without recourse
I don’t want to stop sinning, I want Jesus to replace the joy of that sin with His joy. If I just focus so hard on stopping my sins I feel so empty, but if I fill that space with something else, something better, someone who is meant to fill that hole in every heart: Jesus… then I know I don’t HAVE to sin. We go to sin because we want something else, we feel a longing for something, and we feel that we have to fill it because we weren’t made to be empty. Jesus Christ is the thing that fills the human heart, making the desire to stop sinning great, and then we share in His holy heart and desire not just to irradiate the evil but to promote the good. My gripe with the Catholic Church is the emphasis on avoiding evil, and the absence of direction towards the good. The emphasis on Christ’s suffering rather than His redemption and resurrection and victory. “It’s over now” isn’t the sentiment when it’s still going on every Sunday. Why re-crucify He who already died? Was His sacrifice not enough the first time?? I’m confused??
Without God's love we cannot understand a life without sin. Through the stain of our sinful nature, we walk in the dark unless God's grace allows us to choose good. Avoiding sin in itself is not the goal, but reconciliation and communion with God. We can only long for this, if we believe that God is indeed love.
@michael... '...don't want to stop sinning...', '...we go to sin because...' you want the joy of Christ (love and mercy of our Lord) to wash away yr sin (to cover yr sin)...hmmm, that sounds to me like 'once saved always saved' in a twisted sort of way. Catholics acknowledge we are all sinners but by the grace of God working in us we surrender in submission to God and cooperate with that grace to overcome our sins and effect change to our lives, to become better in thoughts, words and deeds. Confession helps that along.
@michael... Catholics do not, absolutely DO NOT re-crucify Christ at our Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the ONE sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb of God, on the cross that reverberates across time and space (of our physical world) because Jesus is beyond time and space. His death on the cross at Calvary was for the sins of the world past, present and future (otherwise Jesus could not have died for YOUR sin 2,000 yrs into the future from when he died on the cross. So, if Christ died for your sin, Christ died for sins of those in the past as well.) Our Mass is a re-presentation of THAT ONE sacrifice of Christ. We are just brought into the presence of that reality. So, if you can imagine at every Mass on Sunday and on weekdays in every church across more than 3,500 dioceses in more than 200 territories worldwide we are brought into the reality of THAT ONE sacrifice of Jesus on the cross at Calvary. More to blow your mind is that at our Mass, every Mass, Heaven opens and the angels and Communion of Saints descend to be one with us in offering this one Holy Sacrifice to God Almighty. We are the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church spanning across time and space, Heaven and earth in union before God Almighty our Creator and Merciful Loving Father. Take the red pill.
NB: Smoking a cigarette is not a mortal sin. In the example used the minor did several things wrong. First he believed it to be grave matter... so he made a choice which he believed to be gravely offensive (in his mind though mistaken... he was making a choice to reject God) and did it anyways. Second... he was a minor. Third... he was stealing. Fourth... he kept it from the priest thinking he was keeping something very serious which is an insult to the mercy of God.
That being said... if you smoke... I recommend you quit take steps to stop smoking. Your body is not your own. At the end of his life one of the regrets of St. Francis had was not taking better care of "brother ass" i.e. his body.
Thank you for writing that. I have a question: in a similar vein, if you do something, even of grave matter, but are not understanding that it is separating you from God's grace, is it still a mortal sin ?
I’m not yet a Catholic, but whenever I think about going to confession and then hearing someone tell me that I am forgiven brings me to tears. As a Protestant I have prayed for forgiveness to God many times, but I still live with so much shame and regret. I yearn to go to confession and have that kind of peace.
Please come home
I am finding my way. I have been praying the rosary almost every day for the past week. Yesterday I found the confidence to email the Catholic Church in my town and ask about their RCIA program. I pray for the strength and courage to walk into Mass this coming Sunday. It seems so intimidating to do with 2 small children (especially coming from a culture of sending your children to Sunday school) but I am feeling more and more convicted to go.
Bless you, you are surely being called. I pray it will be easy and truly rewarding for you and your family.
Thank you ☺️
I was fully brought into the Church this past Easter Vigil. Since then I’ve gone to confession and the weight being lifted off my shoulders was near tangible and left me in tears. What you’re feeling is very real and I pray you come home, you’ll always have a place here. You will find peace.
God bless you!
When my youngest son was going to do his first communion, he was around 7 years old, he had his first confession. When he was confessing, he got emotional (I could see, it was an open space in the church) and I noticed he had tears. I thought the priest told him something, so when he came to me, I asked him him what asked what happened. He couldn’t talk, so I told him to do his penance. He continued to cry and so we left, he cried like 30 minutes and then was finally was able to talk and he told me so emotional this- when I was confessing, I saw a women and I felt so much love, joy and peace.
What a special gift he was given. ♥️
This is so touching. When I read your comment, I immediately thought Our Blessed Mother came to your son because he is meant to be a Marian priest one day. Regardless, whatever God calls him to be, may he feel safe covered by Our Mother's mantle of love all the days of his life.
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY FOR THE TRUE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST !!!
Stand up together against the people trying to destroy it. Many aren’t Catholics. They are just using the power of the Church to oppress society and look to weaken the Church and the power of the Sacraments.
San Juan Bosco said it best the enemy removes shame for us to sin and returns the shame to keep us from confessing
I confess every week. Because i know that i sinned and made Jesus very sad. When i sin, i feel so suffocated until i confess. I dont care who is in the confessional. I confess my sins, because i hurt my Jesus.
So relatable, I finally confessed masturbating and watching porn after years of thinking I will never do it and maybe only on my deathbed. I prayed the rosary too for a whole week on my knees for the courage to go and the only reason why I finally confessed it is because I prayed the rosary for it.
Keep praying the rosary so you may stop those ugly habits
As a word of advice to the younger people watching, if you have any doubts in your conscience WHATSOEVER, talk to your priest. You can't outrun your sins, and the longer you live against your conscience, I can promise you the web you weave will only become even more tangled.
That is a great comment “You can't outrun your sins” Ill be using that at some point. Thanks
Excellent advice
Fr. Matthias heard my confession last month! Thanks be to God for His love and mercy in the sacrament of confession. Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you @GabiAfterHours and Fr. Matthias!
A couple of sins came to mind some months ago, and they have been on my mind. I needed this. Thank you!
Beautiful! Thank you, Father! I love the habits of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate 🙏💙 such a lovely blue for our Blessed Mother!
Wonderful Sermon! Id like to also see a video for those with scruplosity concerning confession.
I agree!! I think I struggle with that for sure.
Confession, the sacrament of Truth, Peace, and Joy, is the Portal to the Sacred Heart ❤️ through the Immaculate Heart 💙 and Chaste Heart 💚
Actually we need more hours of Confession.
Most Churches near me only offer 1-2 hours per week . But there’s one Church nearby that offers 6-8 hours per week . I think every Church should offer at least 6 hours per week , considering all of the parishioners.
If you live in America, you do not live in a Catholic country. I remember going to confession and watching the priest just stand there by himself waiting for someone to show up. Whereas, in Mexico [a Catholic country], they have tons of priests hearing confessions while the other priest celebrates mass. Our priests are more than happy to make an appointment with you if you cannot make the confession times. Just give them a call and you’ll see. There is no reason for them to waste time when they could be administering other sacraments like the anointing of the sick.
That's sad. We only have confession once per month, if you don't ask specifically for an appointment.
@@coolcatbaron We need more priests, more marriages and more parent’s encouraging their son’s to consider the priesthood as a vocation. Sadly, many parents prefer that their children remain close by and want grandchildren.
Until then, we will need to make appointments. In my opinion, it’s better to make an appointment because we don’t need to rush for the sake of the people waiting in line.
Priests at my parish will hear a confession after mass if you ask. ‘Father, have you got time for a confession?’
That's terrible, I'm from Poland and here you got confession before each mass, so 3 times a day in nearest church in weekday and 8 times at Sunday
I really needed this, thank you. Please pray for me because I have so many things I have not confessed or not properly...
remember the devil will try and convince you "dont go because....." he is cunning! Our Mother can help so can the St. Michael prayer everyday.
This is a video I think I need to watch a number of times.
Thank you Gabi. I am a religious education teacher for elementary middle and high school students. Your page aka the Blessed Mothers page has helped and confirmed so much. Thank you for consecrating everything to her
It's my first time to see that colour of habit reminds me of our sacred Mother praise be to god..❤
As someone who has been struggling with the same sins and I’d felt like I’m reducing the efficacy of the Sacrament, but how foolish of me? This is a cool video! A call to do a better examination of conscience
Thanks for video. For mental prayer acronym EPIC entrust, place, imagine, converse
So helpful thank you Father
I finally watched your Pints with Aquinas interview. Would love to hear more of the miracle stories.
Great video. I think we all needed to hear this
Thank you brother Gabi 🙏 🙌✨️🕊🕊🕊🕊
Thank you.
Confession is God's Merciful Love ❤️
This is a really great talk! I would recommend it to anyone who has confusion about how to make a good confession.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you and God Bless you!
This is such a great video. Very important and yet interesting information.
Ave Maria!
Thank you Father Mathias. I love going to confession with him No judgment
I have no idea how videos become “shorts” so even more people will listen to them …but this is definitely something that has got to go viral. I do pray for more priests and more time scheduled for confessions . I go often to the one hour sessions, and the lines are very long … I see that there are only five minutes left and there are still 5 and 15 people waiting sometimes. So this problem of incomplete confessions compounds when people rush through confessions.
Glory be to God
Great Franciscan! He heard several of my confessions over the years while he was at the friary in New Bedford, MA.
Ave Maria ❤
You missed one. "I'm going to confession tomorrow. I can squeeze one more sin in between now and then.
Yes. Presumption... very dangerous.
realizing this is a sin in itself, and a bad one, actually helped me overcome porn and masturbation like a miracle.
Wow the not confessing a mortal sin got me I’ve been tempted to not confess my grievous sins so often this will help to fight against that thank you!
Ave Maria.
Gabi, great job sweeping the trolls out the door!
That's what I feel. Feels like going up a stair it makes you make one step at a time to get up
Hello everyone! If you could please pray for me I would be very grateful…I drifted from God and need to go to confession but I’m really struggling with preparing for it (I know how to, I just can’t seem to be able to sit down and just do it) and I also struggle a lot with pride so I’m just scared for the state of my soul. God bless anyone who wants to help, and Mary keep you🤍
Sending love and prayers 🙏 ❤️
@@barbaramarhefka5158 thank you so much and God bless you🤍
Praying for you in earnest 🙏🙏🙏
You can do this. God loves you in all your imperfections. Go say a good confession and then forgive yourself for all the wrong and leave it behind you. God will take those sins from you. Let him.
@@aarand01 thank you and God bless you!!
Oh Lord help me
I like to refer to the Sacrament of Confession as the “hinge sacrament,” because it opens the door to the path leading us to the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Eucharist.
❤
Advice for scrupulous people when searching for a good examination of conscience.
You're not going to find one, I've been looking for two years now.
@@Aryanne_v2 I know. It is so agonizing. Going round and round trying to figure out if you have committed a mortal sin.
@@susankbboudreaux4540 Ask four priests you get four opinions. Sometimes it really doesn't feel like Catholicism was made for people like us. I end up staying away from confession for multiple months just because I can't figure out if something was a mortal sin or not, and I find the risk of commiting sacrilege too high to chance it
I feel like I'm just going to have to accept that I'm going to hell in order to have any peace. But I don't know. I'm going to try going to therapy and see if that does anything
@@Aryanne_v2 This is scrupulosity. A person suffering from a scrupulous conscious is not obliged to confess doubtful sins. Please go to confession regularly, every month, without anxiety. Please read the pamphlet by Servant of God Fr. Willie Doyle, a heroic WW1 chaplain called ´Scruples and their Treatment`
If you withheld a mortal sin in confession, do you need to confess all your previously confessed sins? In my case, I experienced impure thoughts about Our Lord and Our Lady, but I don’t remember if I consented to them or not.
Some consider the act of confession as the greatest sacrament more so than Communion
Confession and repentance are different having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and praying directly to him is the way he sead he is the way the truth and the life amen when another says they are acting on is behalf there is know need when you are paying directly to Jesus Christ amen individuals should only trust in Jesus Christ many that have worked in the catholic church have turned out to have committed unimaginable sinns when a individual is praying to Jesus Christ it is pure God bless you all through Jesus Christ amen
Our parish has it once a month 😢
That is a sin of omission... inexcusable. Unless it is due to your priest traveling all over the state hearing confessions.
Write to your priest or bishop asking for more times
I'm just convinced most of us Catholics are going to hell. I don't see how anyone can do this. Scrupulousity makes this impossible
Do not dispair! Ask the Mother of God for help, she WILL help you, she loves us so much!
If we're lucky, theres 15 or rather 10 mins of Confession before mass and mist times, the priest arrives at the church for mass 5 mins before, in time to get dressed up.. 😢
I believe another is not truly believing your sin have been forgiven after confession.
If Jesus can heal the sick through his disciples, he can forgive the sins through the priests.
Going to Confession would be great, but tell me what Priest has time for a 3-hr. Confession? I asked a Priest (not too long ago) "how long should it take for a person to go to Confession?" His INSTANTANEOUS response was "2 minutes," so what did that tell ME?
Seriously... your confession shouldn't last longer than 10 minutes absolutely maximum... like if you hadn't confessed in 30 years. Normal confessions last 3-4 minutes each. You mention any grave matter in kind and number if you have them... then your predominant venial sins. If you don't have mortal sin you can give only venial sins. What it was and how many times. Save your stories.
@@gabiafterhours ... what does "save your stories" mean?
@@pkmr5284
Explaining everything,
You misunderstand the Sacrament. Spiritual Direction might be what you need. Father does not need a history. He needs the number and type of sins so that he may take YOUR SINS upon himself, do penance and offer the sins to God for destruction.
Spiritual direction. Try it.
@@pkmr5284 don't explain WHY you sinned, just mention the sin. That's what the writer meant.
How do one go for confession if she or he is dumb and deaf.
write it on paper I suppose
Paper and pen. If blind then confess direct to GOD. He will understand. I confessed for the first time in about 40 years last month. I feel different. There’s something to it. There’s always a benefit in speaking to another human being about your problems if that other human being is a representative of the church and it’s in private. It is definitely spiritually and mentally helpful.
I had never thought of that. Probably some priests are trained to speak in signs.
@@eddiekorkis Im pretty sure a visually impaired person is in need of confession just as a person who has good vision.
Writing them.
I want to go to confession for my venial sins, but I am worried that if I go multiple times a week with only venial sins, the priest is going to tell me that I should come less often and only need to confess mortal sins. In short, I want to do more than is required by the Church, but confession lines are so busy as it is and I am afraid I will be told not to come unless it's mortal.
Anyone ever encountered this before and have advice? I want to be obedient to the priest above all else.
Yes. This is common. I recommend just go once per week.
I go once weekly as well
What confuses me is that when I see God by reading the actual Word of God I want to change and stop sinning. When I go straight to Him in prayer I want to change, and my heart changes, and my behaviors change. When I ask Him for forgiveness alone, I feel His compassion and closeness, and I know He’s forgiven me. But in the confessional I have no peace, and I have little motivation to stop sinning.
Reading the Bible and turning to God in prayer and asking for forgiveness are all excellent daily practices, but especially before confession as an examination of conscience. I always feel like im walking on air after confession, like i want to shout Glory to God! But i wouldn't worry too much about the emptiness you feel after confession. Just keep going. True virtue can be accomplished when our hearts and minds are more firmly aligned by wisdom and knowledge than our feelings. God bless!
I think this may be the Devil. The last thing he (the Devil) wants is for you to be close to Jesus in Confession after He has invited you to be closer to Him through reading His Word in prayer. I would suggest you find a good spiritual director to help you with scrupulosity. This is how the Devil is taking away your peace so that you will be discouraged about receiving the other Sacraments. Once you are held from Confession by scrupulosity, you will also refrain from receiving the Eucharist for the same reason. Peace and God bless!
I think you may have something else at work here. Talk to Father about it.
There are some sacraments which are inherently sacrilegious. The "Holy" Mass/Sacrifice is the foremost, being a sacrilegious act, being a diabolic act all throughout, performed as a pagan worship The second is Eucharistic Adoration, which is a pagan adoration, blatantly in violation of Jesus' mandate (John, Ch.4). The next one is Confession. Any one who practices it more than ten times or uses it twice for the same sin, commits that sacrilege. Although Priesthood is the most among all sacramental (evil) fruits, unfortunately one can commit it only once.
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A reason why I never hear confessions face to face....it gives people the freedom to be anonymous....
fr can't cover everything.....his examples are broad.... in the Sacrament we often encounter firm resolve....but then .....life on life's terms arrives....lessened culpability....pressure....temptation....be bold, be brave, resolve....confess....
How bad is it for an Abott to violate a brother's (monk) confession?
To be clear, smoking is not a mortal sin, is it?
To my knowledge it is not a mortal, but I would recommend asking a priest! You could confess it regardless if you feel that your smoking is venial sin.
Smoking is not a mortal sin. The boy in the example was misinformed, but because he thought it was a grave offense and he did it anyways... he formerly rejected God..... and made it worse, by being a minor, stealing, and hiding it.
Please tell me where confession is available "a lot during the week ". It's not even available before mass. That's the sacrilege
CALL!!! Make an appointment!
I think if you call and ask that you do not want a face to face confession but want an appointment, the priest can help you find a place with a wall or some partition. Try calling or emailing your bishop and explain the “a lot” problem. I know what you mean . Even when there is confession time scheduled before Mass, for us , the line is long very often and I’ve felt rushed because I’m aware that I’m not last in line yet the hour allocated to confession will be over in 5 minutes and then there are still 7 or 15 people behind me. Some churches allocate just 15 or 30 minutes for confession before Mass and the problem repeats itself and compounds when literally 20 people show up. Even when churches allocate one hours or a cut time for confession, because Mass starts right afterwards, I see it as not enough time and I wonder when they will add the second priest to the same time slot or add another time or day to the schedule. We need to also pray that more of our sons and nephews and friends become great priests like this one … and they allocate more time for confessions.
smoking is not a sin nor alcohol ?
Smoking is a venial sin unless you are destroying yourself. Drinking is not a sin. Getting drunk is a mortal sin.
It's an analogy.
@@gabiafterhours Fr Ripperger said smoking isn’t a sin. I grew up with lots of priests who smoked. Smoking isn’t a sin unless your health is declining and you have been told to stop .
@@user-ps4ky5jk8w yes exactly I have been to Latin mass and I see regularly people smoking outside afterward
@@gabiafterhours smoking if it’s not excessive is not a sin is that what your saying ? Or even just once is a sin
Absolutely wonderful Fr. But consider a person who has gone 7 decades of sacrilegious confessions. Finding a new priest is almost impossible but the TRUE impossibly is to remember ALL of the sins committed to make a FULL confession
How do you get around that??? I am lost.
You do your best to confess all. Use a good examination... call upon Mary and the Holy Spirit. make a list... spend an hour or so doing it... then Confess. Do your best and trust that God will take care of the rest. As long as you don't KNOWINGLY omit anything all your sins are forgiven.
Every confession I say at the end "please forgive these sins AND all sins that I've forgotten"
Maybe this will help your Conscience if unable to remember.
And I still don't find an answer. My priest says to just continue going to Confession, but that doesn't seem a viable option/answer. I feel I have condemned myself without recourse
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I don’t want to stop sinning, I want Jesus to replace the joy of that sin with His joy. If I just focus so hard on stopping my sins I feel so empty, but if I fill that space with something else, something better, someone who is meant to fill that hole in every heart: Jesus… then I know I don’t HAVE to sin. We go to sin because we want something else, we feel a longing for something, and we feel that we have to fill it because we weren’t made to be empty. Jesus Christ is the thing that fills the human heart, making the desire to stop sinning great, and then we share in His holy heart and desire not just to irradiate the evil but to promote the good. My gripe with the Catholic Church is the emphasis on avoiding evil, and the absence of direction towards the good. The emphasis on Christ’s suffering rather than His redemption and resurrection and victory. “It’s over now” isn’t the sentiment when it’s still going on every Sunday. Why re-crucify He who already died? Was His sacrifice not enough the first time?? I’m confused??
Without God's love we cannot understand a life without sin. Through the stain of our sinful nature, we walk in the dark unless God's grace allows us to choose good. Avoiding sin in itself is not the goal, but reconciliation and communion with God. We can only long for this, if we believe that God is indeed love.
@michael...
'...don't want to stop sinning...', '...we go to sin because...' you want the joy of Christ (love and mercy of our Lord) to wash away yr sin (to cover yr sin)...hmmm, that sounds to me like 'once saved always saved' in a twisted sort of way.
Catholics acknowledge we are all sinners but by the grace of God working in us we surrender in submission to God and cooperate with that grace to overcome our sins and effect change to our lives, to become better in thoughts, words and deeds. Confession helps that along.
@michael...
Catholics do not, absolutely DO NOT re-crucify Christ at our Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the ONE sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb of God, on the cross that reverberates across time and space (of our physical world) because Jesus is beyond time and space. His death on the cross at Calvary was for the sins of the world past, present and future (otherwise Jesus could not have died for YOUR sin 2,000 yrs into the future from when he died on the cross. So, if Christ died for your sin, Christ died for sins of those in the past as well.) Our Mass is a re-presentation of THAT ONE sacrifice of Christ. We are just brought into the presence of that reality. So, if you can imagine at every Mass on Sunday and on weekdays in every church across more than 3,500 dioceses in more than 200 territories worldwide we are brought into the reality of THAT ONE sacrifice of Jesus on the cross at Calvary.
More to blow your mind is that at our Mass, every Mass, Heaven opens and the angels and Communion of Saints descend to be one with us in offering this one Holy Sacrifice to God Almighty. We are the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church spanning across time and space, Heaven and earth in union before God Almighty our Creator and Merciful Loving Father.
Take the red pill.
Do both.