Sacraments #5: Why Do We Confess Our Sins to a Priest? With Fr. David Sherry
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Welcome to our fifth episode on the Sacraments, where Father David Sherry will join us to look at the Sacrament of Penance. Many people, even non-Catholics, are familiar with this Sacrament, but we’ll take a magnifying glass to it today, so that we can understand more about what is going on. To do that, we’ll start by looking at the concept of sin itself. This may seem almost obvious, but sin does exist. It’s the whole reason for the Sacrament. Then we’ll look at the two players involved - the penitent, and the priest. What is Father looking for when he asks us those questions in the Confessional? And why do we have to do a penance afterwards? Aren’t our sins already forgiven? Father Sherry will walk us through the traditional form of the Sacrament of Penance now:
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Made my first confession today after being away from the church for 12 years. I’m so grateful the Lord has led me home to the Latin Mass. Thank you, Father for a wonderful explanation of this sacrament. I’m so anxious to receive the Lord tomorrow morning in the Holy Eucharist. 🙏
Made my first confession today (at 26 years old). I was scared to death of accounting for an entire lifetime of worldliness in the spiritual wilderness and was ready to cry my eyes out and have an hour long emotional breakdown, only for it to be a few minutes and getting a clean slate after penance (which I’m doing after writing this). I’m so relieved to have the lord (through his priest) go easy on me and see my sorrow and contrition and be satisfied with me simply approaching him for his mercy. Praise be to god, Amen :)
❤️❤️Wonderful! God Bless You!
What a thorough explanation! So grateful to the SSPX 💯💯❤️❤️
Fr Sherry - your explanations and teaching are fascinating and wonderful You are the best teacher! Thank you!
SSPX preserving Hope & Faith by Charity + Thankyou from one who would be lost without you and Saint Marcel +
Brilliant. The best explanation of sin, confession and penance I've ever heard.
Thank you so much Fr Sherry for the detailed explanation on the importance of the Sacrament of Penance and how we can confess our sins properly. God bless you more Fr Sherry 🙏🙏🙏
Always good to have a better understanding of our faith, be able to grow spirituality and become closer to God.
Thank you Fr. Sherry for explaining a sacrament which always seems a challenge.
Thank you for all you do
Fr. Sherry. What great insight on the sacrament of Confession. Thank you.
Beautiful, understandable explanation! I’ll definitely be sharing this one with my non Catholic friends.
52:04 My wife experienced a bad reaction from a Novus Ordo priest years ago. The priest even said to her, "Don't come to confession if you're just going to repeat this sin again!" It was pretty traumatizing for her, but thankfully my wife had very good priest friends and other friends too who comforted her when she shared this.
The priest was right; you are supposed to be committed not to do those sins again; however, if you keep committing them because of weaknesses or whatever reason, but against your Will, especially, ask God to help you to not commit the sins; that is what the priest should have added. Tell your wife to meditate on the Passion of Jesus Christ; meditating on it is incompatible with sin, so, if you meditate you will not sin, if you don't meditate you are at risk of sinning, but you cannot sin and meditate; meditating on anything sacred, especially in Jesus' Sacrifice of Our Redemption, His Passion, uplifts you so you cannot sin
Even Paul repeated some sins he had previously committed and didn’t want to repeat, and failed to do some things he knew he should. It’s in the Bible!. It’s called being human and the cause is original sin. Though we SHOULD try to not repeat sins we’ve confessed, the fact is that most of us do. No priest should discourage anyone from confessing this when it happens. Quite the opposite. There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification when unsure of the advice you’ve been given, however…or going to a different confessor when issues with one are serious enough to discourage frequent confession.
@@lupitacajero7185 no worries. She understood it well actually. But this was the first time that she confessed her sins to this priest, and she's committed to set things right. But the priest's response may have been too overboard with her then.
Maybe the Priest thought that approach was needed. Saint Padre Pio was known to not mess around too+
@lupitacajero your statements show a severe lack of charity. The priest should have addressed the issue with love charity and a sincere desire for the wife to do a proper penance. Of course he must admonish her but not in a way that he did. He turned her away from the sacraments not towards them.
Excellent and very helpful. Thank you!
This is helpful for me as I’m going to confirmation classes thank you
Thanks for the series!
Wonderful teaching. God bless you Fr. Sherry.
Thank you Father Sherry.
I didn't know about finer details of what exactly "retaining" sins meant. Very interesting at minute 1:00.3. True
47:29 Another question: Why is there a need to give a number or the frequency of that sin you're confessing? I understand that the reason why you need to specify what sin you're confessing is because we are avoiding the sin of sacrilege or not fully stating out your specific sin. But giving the number is very vague to me.
Each separate act has to be submitted to the power of the keys. The remote matter of penance is the sins, the proximate is the contrition - each act against God has to be repented of and so, confessed.
Out of curiosity on the jurisdiction requirement for the confession to be valid, what did that mean for the SSPX before PF gave them the faculties to hear confessions in 2015?
Question regarding the principles of doing Penance and making restitution as being a condition of a good confession: what about a person's debt to society? If I commit a murder and confess it and I'm truly sorry, but the police and the family of the person murdered have no idea who did it, in Justice do I not have an obligation to go to the authorities and admit my crime? Or let's make it a little less extreme: if I am accused of a crime like bank fraud and I actually did it, is it permissible for me to get a lawyer and do everything I possibly can to disrupt the system of justice and try not to be convicted of something I deserve punishment for? I believe I know the answers to these questions, but I don't know that I've ever heard them specifically addressed.
According to natural law nobody has to testify against himself and can hire lawyers to defend himself even if “guilty”, but can never lie.
It’s up to the state to find the guilty party and restore the order of justice towards the common good.
In the case that an innocent person is being charged with the crime of the guilty party, the guilty one has duty to come to the defense of the innocent and help them prove that they are innocent.
@@SSPX thank you for the prompt reply!
33:40 Question: How about the sins against the Holy Ghost? Jesus said that these sins against the Holy Ghost cannot be forgiven.
"I answer that, According to the various interpretations of the sin against the Holy Ghost, there are various ways in which it may be said that it cannot be forgiven. For if by the sin against the Holy Ghost we understand final impenitence, it is said to be unpardonable, since in no way is it pardoned: because the mortal sin wherein a man perseveres until death will not be forgiven in the life to come, since it was not remitted by repentance in this life.
According to the other two interpretations, it is said to be unpardonable, not as though it is nowise forgiven, but because, considered in itself, it deserves not to be pardoned: and this in two ways. First, as regards the punishment, since he that sins through ignorance or weakness, deserves less punishment, whereas he that sins through certain malice, can offer no excuse in alleviation of his punishment. Likewise those who blasphemed against the Son of Man before His Godhead was revealed, could have some excuse, on account of the weakness of the flesh which they perceived in Him, and hence, they deserved less punishment; whereas those who blasphemed against His very Godhead, by ascribing to the devil the works of the Holy Ghost, had no excuse in diminution of their punishment. Wherefore, according to Chrysostom's commentary (Hom. xlii in Matth.), the Jews are said not to be forgiven this sin, neither in this world nor in the world to come, because they were punished for it, both in the present life, through the Romans, and in the life to come, in the pains of hell. Thus also Athanasius adduces the example of their forefathers who, first of all, wrangled with Moses on account of the shortage of water and bread; and this the Lord bore with patience, because they were to be excused on account of the weakness of the flesh: but afterwards they sinned more grievously when, by ascribing to an idol the favors bestowed by God Who had brought them out of Egypt, they blasphemed, so to speak, against the Holy Ghost, saying (Exodus 32:4): ‘These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.’ Therefore the Lord both inflicted temporal punishment on them, since ‘there were slain on that day about three and twenty thousand men’ (Exodus 32:28), and threatened them with punishment in the life to come, saying, (Exodus 32:34): ‘I, in the day of revenge, will visit this sin . . . of theirs.’
Secondly, this may be understood to refer to the guilt: thus a disease is said to be incurable in respect of the nature of the disease, which removes whatever might be a means of cure, as when it takes away the power of nature, or causes loathing for food and medicine, although God is able to cure such a disease. So too, the sin against the Holy Ghost is said to be unpardonable, by reason of its nature, in so far as it removes those things which are a means towards the pardon of sins. This does not, however, close the way of forgiveness and healing to an all-powerful and merciful God, Who, sometimes, by a miracle, so to speak, restores spiritual health to such men." Summa Theologica, secundae secundae, Q.14 a.3
@@SSPX A useful addition: "Having chided the heretic for limiting the mercy of God, St. Pacianus, Bishop of Barcelona explains that a certain sin is never forgiven. 'You are accustomed to peruse all texts," he says. "Why have you not read here, the meaning of 'against the Holy Spirit'? It is written that, when the Lord expelled the devil by a word and performed many works of special power, the Pharisees said: He casts out devils by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of devils. This is to sin against the Holy Spirit, to blaspheme the works of the Spirit. In other sins we fall by error, are broken by fear or overcome by weakness of the flesh. But this is blindness, not to see what you see, to ascribe the works of the Holy Spirit to the devil, to say that the Lord's power, by which He overcomes devils, is the power of the devil. This is the sin that is not forgiven. All other sins, brother Sympronianus, are forgiven to the truly repentant.'"
@@SSPX thank you Father. This is a brilliant and succinct explanation of one of the most confusing passages in the Holy Bible.
And so I heard that in a Novus Ordo parish they had this "online confession" wherein my mother in law went for. I find it iffy because that's not what Jesus intended to do. However I am looking into the fact that the form, matter and intent are valid, but the circumstance of it is kinda iffy.
How should I look into this?
The matter is invalid, you are merely hearing a computer as opposed to a person
Does that mean what the pope just said about sinners being in the communion of saints correct
Pope francis said - as far as I can remember - that blasphemers and a bunch of other apostates and heretics were *the* communion of saints.
I know this will come up.
Pachapapa Bergoglio is misleading people
no that was heresy.
Pius XII "who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed....as does schism or heresy or apostasy.
The reason Jesus said call no man father on earth or rabbi or teacher. Jesus revealed Israel true father of their salvation and the son who teachings and example is our goal.
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