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MariaRita5
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I have some mortally sinful habits of thought that I’m trying to overcome, and I’m in confession every single day. I have not been able to receive communion because I can’t go more than a few minutes without thinking a bad thought. I am sorry for the thoughts, and I am trying to work on them, but I’m terrified that my confessions are not valid because sometimes a thought will slip in while I’m praying the act of contrition or during absolution or as I’m praying my penance. To be specific, I have contracted the habit of thinking GD this, that, and the other, along with blasphemous thoughts especially of Mary, and using other profanity in my thoughts. Because I have so many of these thoughts a day, I’ve been confessing them using phrases like “dozens of times,” “hundreds of times,” etc. Do I need to give a more specific number? And I went to confession once a long while back where I didn’t give a number for some of my sins because I couldn’t remember how many times I’d done it. Was that confession valid? And is my repentance enough? I’m sorry for these bad habits, I absolutely hate them, and I do fear hell, but I keep committing the same sins of thought over and over, and I’m starting to feel like a hypocrite and like I’m not actually forgiven. I’m scared that I’ve been abusing the sacrament of confession.