Brief entertainment

[jesus4ever]

Are brief entertainment of impure thoughts mortal sin. i was thinking of something and the image turned impure. i might have made the thought impure and after a second i stoped the thought.

i have been fighting impure thoughts and images all week and being confuesed at the end of the day weather i have commit grave sin. can anyone help

 

[Havard]

If it was deliberate, it was a mortal sin. If not, it’s still a good idea to pray about it and try to get at the root of what might have caused it.

 

[Holly3278]

If it was deliberate, it was a mortal sin. If not, it’s still a good idea to pray about it and try to get at the root of what might have caused it.

Yep, and even if it was not deliberate, it is still a good idea to confess it anyway.

 

[Kathrin]

If the thoughts are not deliberate, and if they are intrusive, it may be a scrupulosity problem.

 

[jesus4ever]

need help .again

I had another impure thought which i am confused wether i commited a mortal sion or not. i have confessed the thought that i have just spoken about but i have another now.

I was walking towards a person at work a thought started however i dont know if i started it or not and when i got closer to her i turned the other way not facing her and continued to walk with the impure thought in my head. i dont know if i started it but i know that i may have entertained it for 2 seconds.

what do i do. the fact is I am fighting this problem a hundrend times a day every single day. and at least once a week i might fall. i go to confession every week and i feel that i am overdoing it with confession but i need to go otherwise i will not be able to go to communion. what do i do, what do i do. i am starting to loose it because i pray because of this problem and i am always fighting this.

So if i started the thought and briefy entertained it it mortal sin

if i didn’t started the thought and briefy entertained it its only venial.

WHEN i say briefy entertained it is just in my head.

 

[Seatuck]

need help .again

I had another impure thought which i am confused wether i commited a mortal sion or not. i have confessed the thought that i have just spoken about but i have another now.

I was walking towards a person at work a thought started however i dont know if i started it or not and when i got closer to her i turned the other way not facing her and continued to walk with the impure thought in my head. i dont know if i started it but i know that i may have entertained it for 2 seconds.

what do i do. the fact is I am fighting this problem a hundrend times a day every single day. and at least once a week i might fall. i go to confession every week and i feel that i am overdoing it with confession but i need to go otherwise i will not be able to go to communion. what do i do, what do i do. i am starting to loose it because i pray because of this problem and i am always fighting this.

So if i started the thought and briefy entertained it it mortal sin

if i didn’t started the thought and briefy entertained it its only venial.

WHEN i say briefy entertained it is just in my head.

Not a mortal sin. If you fought it off as soon as you realized that you were having it then it is not a mortal sin.It would take a few seconds to process that you were having these thoughts .You should really talk to a priest about how to discern this.

 

[rotlex]

If you are not doing this deliberately it is not a sin. However, after reading just two of your posts, it sounds like you might want to look into speaking with someone about this, be it priest, or therapist. No, I’m not being nasty here, but if you are walking around all day, thinking everything you are doing could\might be a sin, you have some issues to resolve that are a little bigger than anyone on a forum can help you with.

God bless.

 

[Inwe86]

Only if you gave full consent to the thought. Take care so that you don’t become scrupulous. We all get crazy thoughts every now and then. These are tricks of the devil to disturb our peace of mind.