About how frequently do you go to confession?

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Unfortunately most Catholics don’t go to confession as much as they should and they go recieve communion at mass. What should the Church do to make people go to confession? Should they anounce before handing out communion that those conscious of mortal sin and who are not at least Eastern Orthodox or Polish National Catholic can not recieve communion?
 
There have been other threads on this topic, but in my opinion that’s not necessary, announcing that those who don’t qualify via mortal sin don’t get to receive. It’s an act of personal conscience. An adult person is supposed to have a sufficiently developed conscience to know when they’ve sinned mortally, or at least have enough common sense to ask a priest if thus-and-so circumstances were mortally sinful.

What IS necessary is good catechesis on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Too many people believe themselves incapable of sin, let alone mortal sin, and are very sure God will let them slide if they don’t think they have sinned.
 
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There have been other threads on this topicIndeed, there’s even a poll on this very question:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=10979
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Too many people believe themselves incapable of sin, let alone mortal sin, and are very sure God will let them slide if they don’t think they have sinned.Wouldn’t He? Afterall, if they don’t think they sinned, then how could they meet the conditions for mortal sin?
 
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Wouldn’t He? Afterall, if they don’t think they sinned, then how could they meet the conditions for mortal sin?
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Everyone has a moral conscience. The problem is that some people don’t know what a mortal sin is. If you say “mortal sin”, they’ll probably say: “Oh then I’m okay, since God didn’t smite me down with lightning yet.” :whacky: They interpret Grave/Mortal/Deadly sins as doing sometype of crazy atrocity like murder or something.
 
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I don’t think they have to know it was a sin for it to be mortal. They just have to have been capable of knoiwng it. I don’t think that culpable ignorance - the information is there and one has avoided it - excuses one.
 
I would go more, but most churches really don’t have that many times that are convenient. Ours has 30 minutes before one of the Saturday Masses, and then 3 times a year they have a Eucharistic Adoration for a full day, and confessions all day. I always hit those, it’s very nice.

I wish they had more hours, but I understand the manpower issues related to Priests doing it as well. This sacrament probably suffers the most from the lack of Priests IMHO.
 
Perhaps they should combine confession with other activities. Advertise stations of the cross with confession afterwards. Offer bible study with confession beforehand. Retreat plus confession and mass, etc. Be sure to hit up different time slots, so the people who can’t come Sat afternoon can come. Once you get people to have the idea to go more often, then just be sure to keep offering confession frequently. Oh, offer child care in one of the slots.

But all this amounts to more time than a priest might have.
 
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