Confession question re: forgotten sins

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I have truly forgotten sins before and I asked my priest and others about it. I was never asked to stop recieving holy communion. He just told me to say an act of contrition before I recieve communion and then go to confession as soon as you can afterwards.
 
P.S. also if you did recieve Holy Eucharist within the time since you commited the mortal sin and the time you remembered it, which I’m guessing you did as the thread is about forgotten sins, then confess that also, as you have nothing to lose that way.

I have a feeling some will say not to for some reason or another but to those I say why not? Why risk your soul over something as simple as this? is it not easier just to confess it instead of thinking of it over and over?
lest anyone forget Jesus died for you, because of your sins, (so everyone individually) all we need to do is confess our sins with contrition and we are forgiven, so then who would withhold a sin because he/she had a different opinion on the seriousness of it,

so stop discussing and start confessing. God bless you
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The reason that I responded to you is that you stated the following in a previous post: “Quite simply, the best thing to do after remembering a forgotten mortal sin, is to schedule a Confession as soon as possible and not to recieve the Eucharist until after that Confession otherwise you will most likely commit sacreilge.”

Because they have been ALL (remembered and forgotten) placed before divine mercy, I have been absolved and can recieve the Eucharist, even if I later remember one which I may not have confessed (I don’t always remember even what I confess. I think it is part of my personal grace that once confessed it is gone from my soul in my eyes as well as God’s).

The point of this thread is what do we do when we remember one that we haven’t confessed. The Church teaches that we should confess it even though it has already been forgiven. The rationale for this teaching (my opinion) relates to what I underlined in your post above. If I don’t remember a mortal sin during my examination of conscience (Please don’t repeat that it is of my doing or laziness as you said before.) I believe that it probably wasn’t a mortal sin (despite being grave matter) because I didn’t give full consent or have full knowledge of its gravity when I did it.

I also think that this teaching (to confess sins previously forgiven but not confessed because they were forgotten) is so that we gain the fruits from 1455 above (which I also italicized). But why the Church teaches us to do this doesn’t matter to me. I accept it as I know the Church teaches to lead me to holiness and not to punish me or create obstacles to holiness.
 
Listen up everyone - "Anyone who is aware of having committed a mortal sin must not receive Holy Communion, even if he experiences deep contrition, without having first received sacramental absolution" - The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Notice how it is put that - “anyone who is aware” instead of ‘whoever has commited’ or ‘anyone who just commited’ because to be aware of something is not confined to the present but the past also.

Here is the correct teaching of the Catholic Church-

The confession of sins
1455 The confession (or disclosure) of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such an admission man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible. [1424, 1734]

1456 Confession to a priest is an essential part of the sacrament of Penance: “All mortal sins of which penitents after a diligent self-examination are conscious must be recounted by them in confession, even if they are most secret and have been committed against the last two precepts of the Decalogue; for these sins sometimes wound the soul more grievously and are more dangerous than those which are committed openly.” [Council of Trent (1551): DS 1680 (ND 1626); cf. Ex 20:17; Mt 5:28] [1855]

**When Christ’s faithful strive to confess all the sins that they can remember, they undoubtedly place all of them before the divine mercy for pardon. **But those who fail to do so and knowingly withhold some, place nothing before the divine goodness for remission through the mediation of the priest, “for if the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor, the medicine cannot heal what it does not know.” [Council of Trent (1551): DS 1680 (ND 1626); cf. St. Jerome, In Eccl. 10, 11: PL 23:1096] [1505]

1457 According to the Church’s command, “after having attained the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year.” [Cf. CIC, Can. 989; Council of Trent (1551): DS 1683; DS 1708] Anyone who is aware of having committed a mortal sin must not receive Holy Communion, even if he experiences deep contrition, without having first received sacramental absolution, unless he has a grave reason for receiving Communion and there is no possibility of going to confession. [Cf. Council of Trent (1551): DS 1647; 1661; CIC, can. 916; CCEO, can. 711] Children must go to the sacrament of Penance before receiving Holy Communion for the first time. [Cf. CIC, can. 914] [2042, 1385]

1458 Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. [Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1680; CIC, can. 988 § 2] Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. By receiving more frequently through this sacrament the gift of the Father’s mercy, we are spurred to be merciful as he is merciful: [Cf. Lk 6:36] [1783]

Whoever confesses his sins… is already working with God. God indicts your sins; if you also indict them, you are joined with God. Man and sinner are, so to speak, two realities: when you hear “man” - this is what God has made; when you hear “sinner” - this is what man himself has made. Destroy what you have made, so that God may save what he has made … When you begin to abhor what you have made, it is then that your good works are beginning, since you are accusing yourself of your evil works. The beginning of good works is the confession of evil works. You do the truth and come to the light. [St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 12, 13: PL 35, 1491] [2468]
Definition of aware: knowing, realizing, conscious
Definition of forgotten: not remembered

By definition, I am not aware of what I have forgotten.

If I have forgotten a mortal sin after a sincere and complete examination of conscience and I confess all sins to which I am aware (thus not forgotten) with contrition and resolve to amend my life, all of my sins are forgiven and I have complete absolution.

See what I bolded above. It says “confess all the sins that they can remember”. I am not expected to confess that which I have forgotten. And, in confessing all I can remember, I "undoubtedly place **all of them before the divine mercy **for pardon.
 
I have truly forgotten sins before and I asked my priest and others about it. I was never asked to stop recieving holy communion. He just told me to say an act of contrition before I recieve communion and then go to confession as soon as you can afterwards.
if you commited venial sins an act of contrition is enough, but only Confession can remove what mortal sins cause. Sadly some dont fully know what the Church teaches, maybe due to lack of research, forgetfulness, confusion, rejection of teaching, or substituting a peronal opinion to an area where they are less informed. If you are sorry for your mortal sins, if any, then confess them with any sacrileges you may have commited, that is all it takes, just explain that to the priest in the confessional. There need not be any debates or arguments just a humble and contrite acceptance of what wrong we did.

I urge you and anyone willing (or not) to learn about the life of St Padre Pio, and you wont go far wrong. God bless you 👍
 
if you commited venial sins an act of contrition is enough, but only Confession can remove what mortal sins cause. Sadly some dont fully know what the Church teaches, maybe due to lack of research, forgetfulness, confusion, rejection of teaching, or substituting a peronal opinion to an area where they are less informed. If you are sorry for your mortal sins, if any, then confess them with any sacrileges you may have commited, that is all it takes, just explain that to the priest in the confessional. There need not be any debates or arguments just a humble and contrite acceptance of what wrong we did.

I urge you and anyone willing (or not) to learn about the life of St Padre Pio, and you wont go far wrong. God bless you 👍
Dude, Padre Pio is my homeboy. He’s my favorite Saint besides St. Francis. 🙂
 
I think we can all hopefully agree that we should confess our sins frequently, and any mortal sins that we commited before, because as the name suggests this is about forgotten sins and to forget about a mortal sin is not a great reflection on ourselves, not to say someone isnt doing good examinations or anything but as the saints have told us, that daily examinations are very necessary because it is very easy to forget about things we have done before, as even the small things in the spiritual life are important because once we eradicate the little sins it would be fair to say we are more likely to avoid the serious sins.
An examination you do might be great but if it is a constant thing in our daily lives then we risk letting short comings pass through unnoticed so we must be vigilant. satan is satan for a reason, so if we let him in through the little things we take for granted he’ll have much more control over us than we might have thought.
Theres no point getting frustrated about this surely we have to confess our mortal sins if we didnt them yesterday, a month or a year ago because they are mortal (we earn ourselves loss of Heaven), why risk that. Some might have a fear of going to confession, but that shows we have contrition because we are doing something we may not look forward to (although that should be the opposite feeling), but if we dont go and try to justify ourselves and say “well . . it probably wasnt even mortal” then it shows cowardice and pride, signs of lack of sorrow and understanding of the seriousness of sin.
The Catechism teaches we need to confess mortal sins and not recieve until doing so, so we need to avoid recieving the Eucharist until then, it teaches that if we do a good confession while forgetting some mortal sin we may continue on as usual, but that is considering if we tried to the best of our ability to remember our sins, we should always seek the aid of the Holy Spirit when doing this “Come Holy Spirit fall afresh on me” or some prayer of invoking that God will help us, as “with men it is impossible”, so to have done badly our Holy Communions in that time were done badly, sacrilegous if fact, so we need to confess the sins and we need to confess the sacrilege, “but what if I didnt commit a sacrilege?” - well best to be sure isnt it, it will also show you are sorry for it, or at least would have if you commited them, only God knows, so there is no point asking others, as we dont even know ourselves sometimes. So confess it, if you have doubts confess it anyway because you’ll only do good for yourself and not risk losing anything important for all eternity because of pride or carelessness.

Dont be scared to confess your sins or ashamed, and dont sugar coat them! (dont go into too much detail either though)

Confess your sins, confess them well, confess the ones you forgot and confess the ones your not too sure anyway it’ll do no harm (as if you did do it their forgiven, if not it shows you care about the soul God has given you and that you wont leave things to chance)

Whatever you do when a forgotten mortal sin comes to mind do recieve our Lord until Confession, why cant you wait 1 hour or hopefully when you get to the priest asap !? (you think this is going too far, this is your soul we’re talking about, would you not rush to the hospital with a mortal wound, well a mortal sin is a tad more mortal) why risk commit sacrilege? - “perhaps it wasnt a mortal sin and I wont commit sacrilege?” - would you risk that.

trust me I know about this stuff so please just go to Confession and go often even if you havent commited a serious sin, weekly we are advised by Padre Pio and montly at least he tells us. Why wait until we are in danger until we seek safety.

Reading about the saints and their writings is great for increased devotion, motivation, and fervour, its contagious!! 😃

God bless you 👍
 
From The Baltimore Catechism:

** Q. 793. Is our Confession worthy if, without our fault, we forget to confess a mortal sin? **

A. If without our fault we forget to confess a mortal sin, our Confession is worthy, and the sin is forgiven; but it must be told in Confession if it again comes to our mind.
** Q. 794. May a person who has forgotten to tell a mortal sin in confession go to Holy Communion before going again to confession? **

A. A person who has forgotten to tell a mortal sin in confession may go to communion before again going to confession, because the forgotten sin was forgiven with those confessed, and the confession was good and worthy.
 
It is my understanding a forgotten sin is indirectly forgiven, but if it is remembered one is obligated to submit it to the Keys at the next confession.
 
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