Does intent to commit venial sin invalidate confession?

[GloriamDeo7]

Does the intent to, or lack of resolution not to, commit a venial sin invalidate a confession the same way intending to commit the same mortal sin you just confessed invalidates absolution? I’m talking something as small as wanting to tell an inappropriate but funny joke to your friends later, or the intent to pick up your phone just to switch music on a straight highway. If you intend to do either of these or other venial sins when you go to confession for mortal sins, does that invalidate the absolution?

The Catechism in paragraph 1451 says:
“Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is ‘sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.’”

“Resolution not to sin again” is the part that’s getting me. It doesn’t specify the same sin you confessed, or that it’s of grave matter. But I’m also not even sure if this is supposed to mean that if that quoted definition isn’t fulfilled then the absolution isn’t valid.

Of course we always want to purge all sin from our lives regardless of the answer to this question.

Thanks!

 

[DIERM]

The Catechism in paragraph 1451 says:
“Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is ‘sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.’”

All the contrition in the world for past sine, and all the resolve in the world not to commit future sins are going to keep us from sinning again…sinfulness is all part of our human nature since the fall.

 

[rosejmj]

No as long as you are sorry for all mortal sins or at least one venial sin if you don’t have mortal sin you are fine. Are you sure the things you are stating are even venial sins?

 

[Hoosier-Daddy]

So you are in confession, you have discerned something to be sinful, discerned it to be detested by God but venial and yet you are planning to do it anyway!? Do I have that right? You are aware something is sinful and in the most intimate encounters with God you are choosing to go against Him whom you should love above all things, who was tortured and died for even the venial sins you commit!?

And that isn’t even getting into if it is sinful at all. I’m taking you at your word and trusting your conscience which is all one should do with your post. You have discerned something is sinful and you want strangers on the internet to interject their own responsibility and souls by telling you what they think?

 

[Vico]

Does the intent to, or lack of resolution not to, commit a venial sin invalidate a confession the same way intending to commit the same mortal sin you just confessed invalidates absolution? I’m talking something as small as wanting to tell an inappropriate but funny joke to your friends later, or the intent to pick up your phone just to switch music on a straight highway. If you intend to do either of these or other venial sins when you go to confession for mortal sins, does that invalidate the absolution?

The Catechism in paragraph 1451 says:
“Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is ‘sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again.’”

“Resolution not to sin again” is the part that’s getting me. It doesn’t specify the same sin you confessed, or that it’s of grave matter. But I’m also not even sure if this is supposed to mean that if that quoted definition isn’t fulfilled then the absolution isn’t valid.

Of course we always want to purge all sin from our lives regardless of the answer to this question.

Thanks!

There are different conditions for mortal and venial sins.

St. Pius X Catechism

56 Q: If one has only venial sins to confess, must he be sorry for all of them?
A: If one has only venial sins to confess it is enough to repent of some of them for his confession to be valid; but to obtain pardon of all of them it is necessary to repent of all he remembers having committed.

Baltimore Catechism

Q. 770. What do you mean by a firm purpose of sinning no more?
A. By a firm purpose of sinning no more I mean a fixed resolve not only to avoid all mortal sin, but also its near occasions.

Q. 780. What sins are we bound to confess?
A. We are bound to confess all our mortal sins, but it is well also to confess our venial sins.

Q. 781. Why is it well to confess also the venial sins we remember?
A. It is well to confess also the venial sins we remember: (1) Because it shows our hatred of all sin, and (2) Because it is sometimes difficult to determine just when a sin is venial and when mortal.

Q. 782. What should one do who has only venial sins to confess?
A. One who has only venial sins to confess should tell also some sin already confessed in his past life for which he knows he is truly sorry; because it is not easy to be truly sorry for slight sins and imperfections, and yet we must be sorry for the sins confessed that our confession may be valid – hence we add some past sin for which we are truly sorry to those for which we may not be sufficiently sorry.

 

[CRV]

Q. 782. What should one do who has only venial sins to confess?
A. One who has only venial sins to confess should tell also some sin already confessed in his past life for which he knows he is truly sorry; because it is not easy to be truly sorry for slight sins and imperfections, and yet we must be sorry for the sins confessed that our confession may be valid – hence we add some past sin for which we are truly sorry to those for which we may not be sufficiently sorry.

An individual could conclude their sins with , for example " … for these and for all the sins of my past life, especially those against chasity, I am truly sorry" . Or instead of chasity one of the others - “against charity/against hope”, or one could say “against the six and ninth commandment or the third commandment” etc. Obviously it has to be a sin one is sure of having committed in the past and one for which one is truly sorry.