Completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin

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Can anyone tell me what exactly that phrase means. I am looking at the conditions of getting a Plenary Indulgence and it says
The plenary indulgence is granted (under the usual conditions of a sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and a prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff) to the faithful who, on Divine Mercy Sunday, in a spirit that is completely detached from the affection for a sin, even a venial sin, recite the Our Father and the Creed, and also adding a devout prayer (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I trust in you!).
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I suspect athat the words “detached” and “affection” might have different meanings than I think they do.

Lets say you have you have a sin of Gluttony. You know its bad and you are confessing it and are trying to stay away from it. But boy in your mind does going to Baskin Robbins or Dairy Queen and pigging out still in your mind would be great:D
 
A while ago I had wanted to make a plenary indulgence for my dad, but I didn’t try to obtain the indulgence because there was one sin that I really, really wanted to commit. So, even though I hadn’t commited the sin, I still hadn’t let go of my desire to do it.

Finally, I did receive some signs that I needed to obtain this indulgence, some encouragement that I could. Well, I prayed and prayed to make a good and thorough confession, then went to confession and laid the whole matter out before my confessor. I really wanted to follow God’s will. I received some excellent advice from my confessor, and from that day on, I have become fully aware of just how wrong I was in wanting to commit that sin, and would rather give up everything in my life than commit it. It’s been almost a year and a half, and I really have been good about going nowhere near that sin. I think giving up my attachment to it has helped me to avoid it, even though it had seemed completely irresistable to me.
 
I know ia ms truggling with a couple of sins and they are tough. I cannot say that I am not yet detached them at all yet.

I guess it is where I am at as to this particualr sin. It is just a job(with Gods Grace) not committing it
 
I think the real thing is, do you hate the sin or love it? If you hate it, do you hate it only because you would be punished eternally for commiting it or do you hate it because you can see how wrong and offensive to God it is?
 
do you hate it only because you would be punished eternally for commiting it or do you hate it because you can see how wrong and offensive to God it is?
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Both I think. It will be something I might try to hammer out with my Priest if I can see him. The Carnal desire to repeat it is there. However I do hate it because I know its wrong
 
All right, I’ll add my question ~ if I follow the quote in the original post of this thread (including complete detachment from the sin) and I’ll add to that, that if I fulfill all the requirements of the Divine Mercy promise I have read elsewhere on this forum (i.e., fully participate in the Novena = the promise is that your sins will be forgiven, as if you had received another baptism ~ “wiped clean”) then may I assume these sins, whatever they are, whether mortal or venial, need not be confessed?

It sounds rather like a “get out of jail free” card to me. And I don’t say that irreverently, merely as an illustration in a fairly commonly understood term. If that’s true, I find it hard to understand. But please, those who know and understand better than I do, please enlighten me.

Melanie
 
Thanks! I wanted that “on the record” so that no one got the wrong idea!!

Melanie
 
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