Confession: sins from past question

[NewsTheMan]

I’ve had this on my mind for a while. While I was out “in the world” and not practising my faith I did a few terrible things which I deeply regret now. I have obviously come back to the Church in the last 2 years and confess every 2 months or so. I know that for a sin to be mortal 3 conditions must be met.

I guess, at the time, I didn’t know those 3 conditions, nor did I commit the sin with full knowledge to be honest. For example [Warning: graphic] one sin that I feel ashamed about and will absolutely struggle to confess is that friends and I watched bestiality videos because we thought they were funny. Not for sexual pleasure or anything, but just because of the shock factor. Of course, I am ashamed of this, but at the time I just thought I was having a laugh and that was that. So I guess, I am asking, if I should confess this? It is on my mind, I feel absolutely horrified about it, and I beg for forgiveness every day about this and 1 or 2 other sins of my past but I have yet to confess them because I am unsure if I need to. As you can imagine, it will be extremely hard to confess this kind of thing, but I am willing to go through the shame because I deserve it fully.

Thanks

 

[KostyaJMJ]

I think that you would feel better if you confessed it. It doesn’t seem that difficult. I watched a pornographic movie involving bestiality out of sinful curiosity. I am sure that the priest has heard that kind of thing before.

 

[NewsTheMan]

I think that you would feel better if you confessed it. It doesn’t seem that difficult. I watched a pornographic movie involving bestiality out of sinful curiosity. I am sure that the priest has heard that kind of thing before.

Yeah I would feel better confessing it. I just wonder sometimes about confession, because I know that Satan tries to make us feel bad about so many different things that we should be at peace about. It becomes difficult, I don’t want to be scrupulous but I also want forgiveness and peace. Thanks for the response, I am confessing at 5 and I think I will bring this (and other past sins) up.

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

I’ve had this on my mind for a while. While I was out “in the world” and not practising my faith I did a few terrible things which I deeply regret now. I have obviously come back to the Church in the last 2 years and confess every 2 months or so. I know that for a sin to be mortal 3 conditions must be met.

I guess, at the time, I didn’t know those 3 conditions, nor did I commit the sin with full knowledge to be honest. For example [Warning: graphic] one sin that I feel ashamed about and will absolutely struggle to confess is that friends and I watched bestiality videos because we thought they were funny. Not for sexual pleasure or anything, but just because of the shock factor. Of course, I am ashamed of this, but at the time I just thought I was having a laugh and that was that. So I guess, I am asking, if I should confess this? It is on my mind, I feel absolutely horrified about it, and I beg for forgiveness every day about this and 1 or 2 other sins of my past but I have yet to confess them because I am unsure if I need to. As you can imagine, it will be extremely hard to confess this kind of thing, but I am willing to go through the shame because I deserve it fully.

Thanks

I think the 10 comandments do not describe lewd actions. They dryly state what you are sinning against.

I think that you must state the comandment against which you sinned. Otherwise the poor priest will have to listen to pornographic text and I do not think that this was the idea onf confession.

I have some doubts that there would be a sin, if you were laughing. I find sex jokes so dry that I found funny 1 in 1000. Maybe the movie was fun.Well, you know better.