Does God truly forgive and give second chances?

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Why do we sometimes feel like God won’t allow us to start over and repent?
 
Because that’s the Devil trying to get to us. It’s a lie he would very much like for us to believe; it’s easier to kill someone who isn’t struggling.
 
… maybe because you haven’t forgiven yourself, so you don’t feel as if God could have possibly forgiven you yet? Even if he has… but you have to accept it.
 
God definitely does truly forgive us and give us second chances. He loves us SO much and wants nothing more than to help us get to heaven!!! ❤️ I know it’s easy to feel like God won’t allow us to start over and repent, but the truth is, he DOES. Think about the sacrament of confession. You have the opportunity to have all your sins forgiven. I hope this helps!!! 🙂 God bless!!! 🙂
 
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Why do we sometimes feel like God won’t allow us to start over and repent?
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Despair is a sin against hope.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
2091 The first commandment is also concerned with sins against hope, namely, despair and presumption:

By despair , man ceases to hope for his personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it or for the forgiveness of his sins. Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, to his justice - for the Lord is faithful to his promises - and to his mercy.
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Does He require that we forgive others and give them second chances?

“Seventy times seven . . .”

Does He require us to do for others what He refuses to do for us?

“. . .”

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As someone else has already said, that feeling (that God won’t allow us to start over and repent) is a lie from the father of lies. It’s just flat out wrong. The fact that you woke up this morning is evidence to the contrary. It’s a new day. And the sacrament of reconciliation is always there for the taking. The choice confronts all of us at times - are we going to believe what we feel, or are we going to believe what God says?
 
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Why do we sometimes feel like God won’t allow us to start over and repent?
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As someone else has already said, that feeling (that God won’t allow us to start over and repent) is a lie from the father of lies. It’s just flat out wrong. The fact that you woke up this morning is evidence to the contrary. It’s a new day. And the sacrament of reconciliation is always there for the taking. The choice confronts all of us at times - are we going to believe what we feel, or are we going to believe what God says?
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And yet there are periodic threads, citing saints such as St. Leonard of Port Maurice and St. Louis de Montfort on the “fewness of those saved,” despite sacramental confession and what is currently taught on God’s forgiveness. Have trouble reconciling those teachings.
 
That is satan tempting you with despair, floating a form of pride that says “your sins are so super special bad that God will not forgive them, the priest will be so shocked he may ban you from the parish!”

God knows our sins yet calls us by name.
Satan knows our names and calls us by our sins.

God gives a lifetime of chances to start over.
 
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“fewness of those saved,” despite sacramental confession
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Then someone either misunderstands these writings OR the writings are wrong.

Saints are not impeccable, their writings are not certified free from errors.

God wills that all be saved.
 
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the “fewness of those saved,” despite sacramental confession and what is currently taught on God’s forgiveness.
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If I leave an extravagant gift for you in plain view, tell you about it over and over, urge you to take it, and yet you do not, then I have done all I can do to convince you to take it. There is no shortage of forgiveness in God. There is, tragically, a shortage of the courage (and humility) it takes for us to step forward and take hold of it. I make myself go to confession; and then I feel so good afterwards. The journey to the confessional is much harder than the journey back from it.
 
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When I leave the confessional I don’t feel so good, rather I feel nervous about committing a sin again, I mean it is easy to do so. Maybe i don’t trust in Christ enough but I genuinely do feel a certain tenseness after leaving confession.
 
Because our feelings are a terrible guide to truth.

Trust that the Sacraments that God gave us are efficacious. You probably didn’t feel different after Baptism or Confirmation and most people don’t feel different after Penance or receiving Holy Communion either. We believe because God told us, not because we feel a certain way.
 
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According to statistics from Georgetown Univ , a Catholic and Jesuit Univ,

only 22% of Catholics go to mass faithfully on Sunday.

Therefore

78% don’t. Which also means, that same 78%, it’s pretty safe to say, don’t go to confession either.

Meaning

while one is in mortal sin, supernatural sanctifying grace is NOT alive in THEM.

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Are there consequences for that condition mentioned, for one’s feeling of well being with God?
 
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There are 7 billion people in the world presently. About 1/7 are Catholic, many of whom do not avail themselves of the sacraments.
 
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He always forgives and will give us 1 million chances if we ask.

To answer your question; Satan is telling you this so you despair.
 
Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

God is faithful.

Waking up each morning is another chance given us by God to change our ways, to go to confession if necessary, to pick up our cross and carry it. Each time we repent of our sins we are truly forgiven, in the sacrament of confession for mortal sins, and those sins are gone - never to come back. Our soul is washed clean, and we start again.

To win the race, one must continue in the race - not give up. It is most important that each time we fall (mortal sin), we get back up (truly repent and go to Confession) and continue onwards towards Heaven with the grace of God.
 
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