Confession/Spiritual Direction

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If a priest offers spiritual direction in conjunction with our Confession, are we bound to follow that direction? In a case where a particular sin is an ongoing struggle, what happens if we get conflicting spiritual direction from different Confessors?

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Confession is not the place for Spiritual direction in the proper sense. A Priest might suggest something that would help with the Temotations being ecperienced but it is only a suggestion.
 
The role of confessor and that of spiritual director are very different.

A confessor deals with the sins and makes suggestions for overcoming them in the future.

A spiritual director listens to your spiritual journey, helps you to understand it better, offers suggestions and directions on how to enrich it further.

One person can fill both roles, but it is not necessary.

In the case, where you are getting conflicting advice about a particular sin, bring it up, say X told me to do this about you, now you tell me to do this. How can I do both? Get the confessor and/or spiritual director to understand what to others recommended and work from there.

If you are using multiple spiritual directors, you need to choose one as primary and let each spiritual director know about the others. It will help them in assisting you.
 
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