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[Catholic1357]

If you have an option either to break your oath you gave to God or to deny the truth that is Catholicsm what would you pick? If you have to choose one of them?

 

[1ke]

If you have an option either to break your oath you gave to God

If someone makes an oath to God (which one should not do lightly or without spiritual direction) then one can be released from the promise, oath, or vow by the competent authority. One should talk with one’s pastor about such a situation.

One should also be aware of the canonical requirements for oaths and vows, such as age, etc.

or to deny the truth that is Catholicsm what would you pick?

Why would one want to do so? This is grave matter. One should talk with one’s pastor.

If you have to choose one of them?

This is a false dichotomy. One may always choose to do neither.

 

[Catholic1357]

If you made an oath before even becoming a catholic that you will never become a catholic but then realize tha catholicsm is the truth how to get out of this situation?

 

[Ad_Infinitum]

Interesting. Is there a option for none?

 

[1ke]

If you made an oath before even becoming a catholic that you will never become a catholic but then realize tha catholicsm is the truth how to get out of this situation?

Well, one learns one’s lesson about making oaths.

And one talks to one’s (Catholic) pastor about being released from such an oath (if such an oath were binding, which it likely is not).

 

[Michael57]

If you made an oath before even becoming a catholic that you will never become a catholic but then realize tha catholicsm is the truth how to get out of this situation?

I think you are confusing “oath” and “vow”, but either way it was made out of ignorance of God’s will in your life.

Go see your priest about it.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent (a great resource BTW):

Obligation arising from a promissory oath

In a promissory oath, we call on God not only as a witness of our desire to fulfill the promise we make, but also as a guarantee and pledge for its future execution; for at the proper moment He will require us, under pain of sin against the virtue of religion, to do what we have promised in His presence; whence it follows that it is a sin against religion not to perform, when we can, what we promised under oath: a mortal sin if the matter is grave; a venial sin (according to the more common and more probable opinion), if the matter is not grave. Certain conditions are requisite before a promissory oath entails the obligation of fulfilling it, notably the intention of swearing and of binding oneself, full deliberation, the lawfulness of making the promise, as well as the lawfulness and possibility of executing it, etc. Several causes may put an end to this obligation: intrinsic causes, such as a notable change occurring after the taking of the oath, the cessation of the final cause of the oath; or extrinsic causes, such as annulment,** dispensation, commutation**, or relaxation granted by a competent authority, a release, express or tacit, either by the person in whose favour the obligation was undertaken, or by a competent authority to whom the beneficiary is subject.

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First, I don’t believe that you have made a binding promissory oath in the first place. You swore something that God would later lead you toward. (It’s a bit like a young boy, just back from playing in the sandbox, saying “I won’t take a bath!!!”, until he’s picked up and placed in the warm tub by his father or mother.)

Second, even if you did (and I don’t believe you were actually under that oath from the start), you may be released by competent authority, and that would be your priest.

Third, if you called on God to be your witness to your oath, and now God is leading you to the Catholic Church, your circumstances and conditions have changed in such a way as to make that original oath invalid, supposing that it even was valid in the first instance.

Fourth, who benefits by this oath, who was it between? You are the only party, and God was witness. I’d imagine that you can release yourself from your oath.

From what you’ve posted, it seems that you made an oath that would only delight the devil. That cannot be binding, ever, in my opinion.

Be released of it, and confess it to your priest at your next confession (your first if you are being lead into RCIA by the gentle urging of God), and go in peace.

And in future, be wary of making oaths or vows without full knowledge of the repercussions and responsibilities. Be prudent.

God bless you.