Confession is GREAT!

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I just had to post that I made a confession yesterday that I had waited years to make. (Mind you - there was no mortal sin to confess) but nonetheless - a HUGE burden was lifted from me there, and the most GARGANTUAN ammount of grace was poured out on to me - and I am SOOOOOOOOOOO happy!!! Confession is a great gift - and priests are the COOOOOOOOLest! I love priests!

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ!!!

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what a happy post. 🙂

I agree… confession is great and Priests are cool !! It’s good to be Catholic, isn’t it?
 
I too love confession, and priests.

Thanks be to God for your good fortune
 
I haven’t made my first confession yet, I have to say, I have mixed emotions about it. I feel a bit overwhelmed, a whole lifetime of sin in a single confession. :whistle:

If I survive it, I’m sure I’ll be better off for it!
 
Thank you for your happy post! I agree, it’s a great gift. As a matter of fact, we were read a letter from our Diocesan Bishop yesterday at mass. I had to do with confession, the sacrament of reconcilliation to be exact. I was good to hear it. I went to confession on Ash Wednesday and my priest thanked me for coming. he said it’s sad that usually germans don’t find the time to go and that they like to absolve themselves from sin- +gasp+ what a horrible thought! He said general absolution services are commonly practiced in Switzerland, I think it’s tragic! The sacrament of reconcilliation is one of the greatest gifts from Jesus to us, we should thank Him for it. priests are another great gift from God, I think our junior priest is the greatest! He reminds me of JP II, he’s also from poland and soooooooo involved in his love for Christ. May God bless all of our priests, I’m so thankful we have them!:blessyou:
 
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I just had to post that I made a confession yesterday that I had waited years to make. (Mind you - there was no mortal sin to confess) but nonetheless - a HUGE burden was lifted from me there, and the most GARGANTUAN ammount of grace was poured out on to me - and I am SOOOOOOOOOOO happy!!! Confession is a great gift - and priests are the COOOOOOOOLest! I love priests!

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ!!!

:dancing: :yup: 😃 :amen:
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If you think that felt good, try going monthly or weekly :D.

I use to go very few times yearly, then let it slip to 2 years. I started going to another parish where confession was readily available on Sundays and it just pulled me in. When you see lines of people, it happens - it’s a good thing to see.

I go weekly, mainly working on matters of virtue or venial matters. Going frequently gives me the grace to work through them.

As my pastor recently said, “if any priest tells you that you don’t need to be in confession for venial sins, find a new priest”.

This is how sanctity is achieved. Not only do you get counsel to work through matters of perfection, but you get the graces to work through them.

Case in point: I was spending too much time in Catholic forums and knew it. I mean, hours per day. Too much of a good thing can be bad. Much was getting neglected, including my prayer life. After being unable to resolve it on my own over a few months, I finally coughed it up in confession, fully expecting my confessor to pull the plug on my activity. Instead, he gave me 20 minutes daily. That is barely enough to read through a set of posts, but nonetheless, it worked. It was still hard, but I limit it to 20 minutes in the AM now. I don’t get to be on any time of the day and all kinds of things are getting done. My prayer life has boomed.

I took this in under the heading of “intemperence”. Any good confessor would never turn away someone working through such issues.
 
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If you think that felt good, try going monthly or weekly :D.
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Lux_et_veritas ~

To be clear - I also go to confession about every two weeks. In this case, I had carried a secret burden for nearly a lifetime and it was a situation that continued to haunt me. I finally accepted the graces to bring the situation to confession - I unloaded this unique burden to Christ, through the priest. And now - I am entirely relieved of the burden and have peace.
It didn’t involve a mortal sin on my part. But the grace that came through the confession was immensly healing - and I realized how the sacrament of pennance is their not only to forgive sins, but to restore us spiritually, mentally, and indeed physically.
Praise be to God.

Ridesawhitehorse ~~~
 
Jeanette L:
I haven’t made my first confession yet, I have to say, I have mixed emotions about it. I feel a bit overwhelmed, a whole lifetime of sin in a single confession. :whistle:

If I survive it, I’m sure I’ll be better off for it!
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Just go in and tell it like it is. You will not believe how well it goes.
 
I feel great after I go to confession too. I am trying to get my husband to go (he has not gone since 1987). He probably would not have went then but we were getting married and that was one thing that we both had to do before we got married. I don’t push him to go but I do tell him that he should go and that I would help him all the way to the confessional booth. If I could I would sit in there with him to direct him and then cover my ears when he gets ready to confess. But, that definitely would not happen. 😦
 
Interestingly enough, after I went to confession for the first time in fifteen years last April, I not only found joy in my life again, but lost the backache I had spent gobs of $$$ on for chiropracters, etc. Go figure. Why didn’t I do that earlier? I still pray for that priest who was so very kind yet orthodox.
 
I’m still amazed I haven’t given a priest a coronary, from my confessions. And you’re right - the feeling is great to have the load taken off your shoulders.

God is Great!!!

Notworthy
 
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Lux_et_veritas ~

To be clear - I also go to confession about every two weeks. In this case, I had carried a secret burden for nearly a lifetime and it was a situation that continued to haunt me. I finally accepted the graces to bring the situation to confession - I unloaded this unique burden to Christ, through the priest. And now - I am entirely relieved of the burden and have peace.
It didn’t involve a mortal sin on my part. But the grace that came through the confession was immensly healing - and I realized how the sacrament of pennance is their not only to forgive sins, but to restore us spiritually, mentally, and indeed physically.
Praise be to God.

Ridesawhitehorse ~~~
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Good for you. What a wonderful feeling. Periodically something will haunt me and to confess is a wonderful thing. What grace.
 
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Lux_et_veritas ~

To be clear - I also go to confession about every two weeks. In this case, I had carried a secret burden for nearly a lifetime and it was a situation that continued to haunt me. I finally accepted the graces to bring the situation to confession - I unloaded this unique burden to Christ, through the priest. And now - I am entirely relieved of the burden and have peace.
It didn’t involve a mortal sin on my part. But the grace that came through the confession was immensly healing - and I realized how the sacrament of pennance is their not only to forgive sins, but to restore us spiritually, mentally, and indeed physically.
Praise be to God.

Ridesawhitehorse ~~~
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Ahhhhh - that makes sense.

I think we all have something in our closets that may not be mortal, but nonetheless, needs cleaning out.

I once made a description to my pastor:

There are boulders, rocks and stones. Stones I can sweep from the path myself and rocks can vary in size, some being a little too heavy. Boulders always need help clearing from the path.

As you may guess, stones are venial matters and boulders are primarily mortal sin, while rocks are those things that fall in between where we aren’t sure if they were mortal or venial given circumstances.

If a bunch of stones pile up, they can be cleaned up much more readily if we ask for help. We should always ask for help in moving rocks so that we don’t hurt ourselves should they be a little too heavy. Boulders always require help moving.

Once the path is cleared you can continue to move forward on the spiritual path.
 
I also enjoy confession. When I confessed my 9 year affiliation with
the jw’s, I was in tears by the end of my confession. I felt totally
empty. Like I had poured out a cup of water that had been stagnant
for 9 years. It was a miserable time in my life, and I confessed it and
received absolution. The jw experience is one I will never repeat nor want to. I felt light as a feather, and thanked God in humbleness for His Holy Church and for His priests. I do not like to miss confession, and I go now as often as I can! :o
 
Hello,

I had a problem going to Barnes and Noble too much. Especially I would go on weekends. And when my daughter started school I started to go during the day too. I would buy books too but never read them. I have a daughter of 6. My husband was fine with all this. I couldn’t get away from this addiction. All it took was for my confessor to tell me not to go on weekends any more because I have a family. And not to buy any more books until I’ve read at least 3. Also during the week day, I go to daily mass more now. And if I go to barnes and Nobles instead, I can’t stand it. I can’t quit thinking about mass. But for lent I have given up Barnes and noble totally.

You are absolutely right. Confession has an amazing power that I wouldn’t have believed before I converted.
 
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