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Deacon2006
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Does anyone know of there has been any changes to the obligation to confess our sins annually
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JCPhoenix
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Nope.
Confession and Communion once annually, and I don’t remember if that is required during the Lenten/ Easter season (as in at Easter) or if the latter is just very strongly encouraged as the appropriate time of year to meet the annual obligation.
Confession and Communion once annually, and I don’t remember if that is required during the Lenten/ Easter season (as in at Easter) or if the latter is just very strongly encouraged as the appropriate time of year to meet the annual obligation.
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Deacon_Tony560
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Unless it has changed, the obligation has always been to receive the Eucharist at least once a year during Easter Time.( From Easter to Pentacost) There was no mention of confession. However, if someone can go a whole year honestly without going to confession, maybe they are on their way to Sainthood.
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martino
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I know that it has not changed!
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atsheeran
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It has not changed.
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Deacon_Tony560
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Notice it says GRAVE SINS. If a person does not have any grave sins, there is no obligation.
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atsheeran
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Deacon Tony560:
I didn’t think that we had ever been obligated to confess non-grave (i.e., venial) sins. So I don’t believe that anything has been changed.
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Tyler_Smedley
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I thought that we were supposed to go at least twice a year…nevermind I just looked it up…
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stbruno
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catholicdoors.com/faq/qu32.htm This might help clarify your question about the precepts of the Catholic Church of which is this one of them.
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CARose
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The catechism gives only the most lenient requirement. It was commented that a person who could go an entire year without needing confession was probably on their way to sainthood.
I’d like to suggest that going to confession frequently is what you will find for those who desire Sainthood and are striving towards it. Read the lives of the saints and consider the example of the Holy Father. I have heard that he goes daily, I have also heard that he goes weekly. Either way, I doubt that his sins of disordered desires don’t begin to approach my actual sinful actions, and I like to believe I’m doing OK. The point is, if he’s going frequently, who am I to think I can go only periodically.
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CARose
I’d like to suggest that going to confession frequently is what you will find for those who desire Sainthood and are striving towards it. Read the lives of the saints and consider the example of the Holy Father. I have heard that he goes daily, I have also heard that he goes weekly. Either way, I doubt that his sins of disordered desires don’t begin to approach my actual sinful actions, and I like to believe I’m doing OK. The point is, if he’s going frequently, who am I to think I can go only periodically.
God Bless,
CARose
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stbruno
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Those in Mortal Sin Can’t Go to Communion, Says Pope
In a Message to Priests at Course on “Internal Forum”
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 14, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In keeping with Church teaching, John Paul II issued a reminder that no one who is aware of being in a state of mortal sin can go to Communion.
The Pope confirmed the traditional teaching of the magisterium in a message published by the Holy See on Saturday. The message was addressed to young priests who attended a course last week on the “internal forum” – questions of conscience – organized by the tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary.
The Holy Father dedicated his letter, signed March 8 in the Gemelli Polyclinic where he was hospitalized, to the relationship that exists between the Eucharist and confession.
“We live in a society that seems frequently to have lost the sense of God and of sin,” writes John Paul II. "In this context, therefore, Christ’s invitation to conversion is that much more urgent, which implies the conscious confession of one’s sins and the relative request for forgiveness and salvation.
“In the exercise of his ministry, the priest knows that he acts ‘in the person of Christ and under the action of the Holy Spirit,’ and for this reason he must nourish [Christ’s] sentiments in his inner being, increase within himself the charity of Jesus, teacher and shepherd, physician of souls and bodies, spiritual guide, just and merciful judge.”
The Pope continues: "In the tradition of the Church, sacramental reconciliation has always been considered in profound relationship with the banquet of the sacrifice of the Eucharist, memorial of our redemption.
“Already in the first Christian communities the need was felt to prepare oneself, with a worthy conduct of life, to celebrate the breaking of the Eucharistic bread, which is ‘Communion’ with the body and blood of the Lord and ‘communion’ (‘koinonia’) with believers who form only one body, as they are nourished with the same body of Christ.”
Because of this, the Pontiff recalls St. Paul’s warning to the Corinthians when he said: “Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:27).
“In the rite of the Holy Mass,” notes the Pope, “many elements underline this exigency of purification and conversion: from the initial penitential act to the prayers for forgiveness; from the gesture of peace to the prayers that the priests and faithful recite before Communion.”
“Only someone who is sincerely conscious of not having committed a mortal sin can receive the Body of Christ,” states the papal message, recalling the doctrine of the Council of Trent. “And this continues to be the teaching of the Church also today.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the difference between mortal and venial sin in Nos. 1854 to 1864.
**Isn’t Going to Confession more often to be in grace so that you can receive Communion without sin reason enough to go more often? If the pope goes weekly, then I should go much more often than I do! **
In a Message to Priests at Course on “Internal Forum”
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 14, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In keeping with Church teaching, John Paul II issued a reminder that no one who is aware of being in a state of mortal sin can go to Communion.
The Pope confirmed the traditional teaching of the magisterium in a message published by the Holy See on Saturday. The message was addressed to young priests who attended a course last week on the “internal forum” – questions of conscience – organized by the tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary.
The Holy Father dedicated his letter, signed March 8 in the Gemelli Polyclinic where he was hospitalized, to the relationship that exists between the Eucharist and confession.
“We live in a society that seems frequently to have lost the sense of God and of sin,” writes John Paul II. "In this context, therefore, Christ’s invitation to conversion is that much more urgent, which implies the conscious confession of one’s sins and the relative request for forgiveness and salvation.
“In the exercise of his ministry, the priest knows that he acts ‘in the person of Christ and under the action of the Holy Spirit,’ and for this reason he must nourish [Christ’s] sentiments in his inner being, increase within himself the charity of Jesus, teacher and shepherd, physician of souls and bodies, spiritual guide, just and merciful judge.”
The Pope continues: "In the tradition of the Church, sacramental reconciliation has always been considered in profound relationship with the banquet of the sacrifice of the Eucharist, memorial of our redemption.
“Already in the first Christian communities the need was felt to prepare oneself, with a worthy conduct of life, to celebrate the breaking of the Eucharistic bread, which is ‘Communion’ with the body and blood of the Lord and ‘communion’ (‘koinonia’) with believers who form only one body, as they are nourished with the same body of Christ.”
Because of this, the Pontiff recalls St. Paul’s warning to the Corinthians when he said: “Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:27).
“In the rite of the Holy Mass,” notes the Pope, “many elements underline this exigency of purification and conversion: from the initial penitential act to the prayers for forgiveness; from the gesture of peace to the prayers that the priests and faithful recite before Communion.”
“Only someone who is sincerely conscious of not having committed a mortal sin can receive the Body of Christ,” states the papal message, recalling the doctrine of the Council of Trent. “And this continues to be the teaching of the Church also today.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains the difference between mortal and venial sin in Nos. 1854 to 1864.
**Isn’t Going to Confession more often to be in grace so that you can receive Communion without sin reason enough to go more often? If the pope goes weekly, then I should go much more often than I do! **
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