Feel horrible after sinning

[bighsker250]

I have a question about feelings and advice. When I commit a mortal sin I feel like I’m not worthy to read the bible, go to mass,or watch ewtn until I go to confession. I feel as if I’m making a joke of my faith when I do the things I love and hurting the Lord’s feelings not going to confession first. I lock myself out of my faith. I would like some advice . Thank You and God bless

 

[Domiy]

I have a question about feelings and advice. When I commit a mortal sin I feel like I’m not worthy to read the bible, go to mass,or watch ewtn until I go to confession. I feel as if I’m making a joke of my faith when I do the things I love and hurting the Lord’s feelings not going to confession first. I lock myself out of my faith. I would like some advice . Thank You and God bless

You are not worthy to receive Eucharist after a mortal sin, but you’re definitely still allowed to pray, read the Bible, celebrate Mass etc. I’d actually recommend them even more if you’re in a state of mortal sin, since it’s the only things that you can do to make you feel better.

Your love for God and repent at your sins and unworthiness makes Him happy!

 

[lakotak]

I have a question about feelings and advice. When I commit a mortal sin I feel like I’m not worthy to read the bible, go to mass,or watch ewtn until I go to confession. I feel as if I’m making a joke of my faith when I do the things I love and hurting the Lord’s feelings not going to confession first. I lock myself out of my faith. I would like some advice . Thank You and God bless

I find when I sin, willingly and knowingly, the terrible feelings I have of guilt, etc. is the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I am thankful to God for this hard conviction. He lets me know that I have done wrong before Him and He is calling me to repent. Imagine if the Spirit did not convict you. You would most likely not repent and continue on doing the same thing. The conviction of the Spirit comes down on me like a ton of brick and I thank Him for this. The more the Spirit convicts you the more you need to draw closer to God in repentance. By your misery, the Spirit is trying to get you to turn back to God. **Never **count what you have done greater than God’s forgiveness.

As soon as I am convicted, I go immediately and tell Him I am sorry, ask for forgiveness and say an act of contrition, from the heart, until I can get to confession. I hope this helps you.

 

[Lady_Love]

“Do not hide your face from Me.”

Before calling you into relationship, Jesus knew every sin you would ever commit. Knowing this He still called you, He still chose to give Himself to you. When Jesus says, “I will never leave you of forsake you.” He means it. When you jump into the pit of mortal sin, Jesus jumps in after you to rescue you. The whole reason that Jesus became a man was so that He could rescue you, before or after your sin.

I think that it is a gift that you feel shame for committing a mortal sin. Sorrow for one’s sins is a gift but Jesus did not die for us so that we would remain in shame. No, like the woman caught in adultery, He wants to restore your dignity to you as a child of the Living and Almighty God.

The moment you turn to face your God is the moment He starts to heal you. Do not delay in running into the arms of Jesus. He sees you, longs for you, and looking upon your mortal wound, He is overcome with compassion and mercy. Let Him near you ASAP so that He can heal your wound. What doctor looks upon a dying man and turns to look the other way? Rather the Doctor, true to his vocation, rushes in with his skill and training to save the dying man.

Don’t think for one second that Jesus did not feel the separation and wound instantly. Do not think that He tarried long. Faster than the speed of light did He rush to your side to call you back, to hold you near His heart.

 

[St_Francis]

Sometimes I may hurt someone and not be able to apologize in person, but I send an email or leave a voice message right away, then apologize fully in person as soon as I can. If you were that person, wouldn’t you feel better rather than worse about it?

So it is with Christ! Remember that He actually loves us, and *wants *our companionship.

St Therese of Lisieux explains this in a little story: two daughters do something bad while their father is away. When he comes home, one of the daughters hides from him, but the other runs up to him and tells him immediately what wrong she has done.

One of the many ways that the Devil seeks to separate us from God is by sending us bad thoughts like those you have been having. Ignore them as best you can and return to Christ as quickly as you can, even if you can’t get to Confession right away.

 

[Rabih86]

Sibling in Christ,

May God bless you and your family on this glorious day of the Epiphany.

Your feeling of sorrow and guilt every time you do a mortal sin is only proof of your solid dedication and love for the Eucharist and all the Mysteries of the church. It reflects your incredible conscience and how what would be forigvable in the eyes of our Merciful Lord, really make you detest your sin and the act of committing it. My sibling in Christ (I’d call you brother if you’re male or sister if you’re female), congratulations for your great conscience that God has blessed you with, and it is necessary to be consciencous, especially during confession and in all our actions in front of God because He sees all, and knows how much you detest your sins. Please, never fall in the guilt trap the satan would want us to have, the one that would make us so ashamed that we would not be able to get back up and rise with Jesus to the state of Grace before the Eucharist. I ask you to be guilty of your actions, to take action yourself by confessing it, and that is where your sin would stop! There is no need to quit everything else, or feel extremely ashamed to engage in other Holy activities because the evident happened. We are all weak infront of God, and we are all sinners. We need to accept this, confess, Recite the Rosary (to keep away evil ways), and attend Mass regulalrly, and meditate in the Bible and Hymns, and continue our lives. Continuity with the best intentions and the best way possible, is what is asked of us to do by God, and as such we need to live up to it, and need not fall into traps of guilt and excessive shame.

Know that you are in my prayers. May God bless you and your family!

Rabih

 

[Brony4life]

Let me just say something; I know exactly how you feel. Yesterday, I wouldn’t even look at my confessor because I felt so bad. Sometimes, including yesterday, I don’t even feel better after confession, a lot of times (like yesterday), I don’t any feel better until I’ve done my penance to show that I do in fact care, and that I am in fact very sorry for what I did. But my confessor gave some very encouraging advice, and that is to embrace God’s mercy at all times, especially when you feel unworthy. Never give up, till your very last breath. He said that it’s not about being perfect as much as it is having the will to fight, and fighting until you say the words “Into your hands, I commit my spirit.”

 

[JRKH]

I have a question about feelings and advice. When I commit a mortal sin I feel like I’m not worthy to read the bible, go to mass,or watch ewtn until I go to confession. I feel as if I’m making a joke of my faith when I do the things I love and hurting the Lord’s feelings not going to confession first. I lock myself out of my faith. I would like some advice . Thank You and God bless

Please recognize that you are taking this matter of “lock(ing) myself out of my faith” too far. You are making worthiness a binary (either you are or are not 100% worthy) instead of recognizing that we are all in various stages of worthiness.
In a sense this is a continuation of the sin for you are playing right into the devil’s plan…

What is happening here is that you are making your entire worthiness contingent on a legality (going to confession). This is a false and prideful view. A prideful view that can easily lead to despair…Which I’m sure is what is concerning you now.
In truth you begin to rebuild your worthiness as soon as you turn back to God in repentance. As such you are perfectly worthy to pray, to read Scripture, attend mass (sans communion of course) and adoration etc… Of course you need to get to confession as soon as reasonably possible, but that is the final step in restoration - it is not the only one.

Think of it like this…When the Apostles were preaching - the were preaching “Scripture” - every word from their mouth inspired by the Holy Spirit. Were the people listening “worthy” to be hearing “Scripture”? When Paul penned the letter critical of the Corinthians for “so soon turning from the Gospel they had heard from him…” He was penning Scripture…Was his audience…the sinful Corinthians, not worthy to hear and read it? how could they turn back to God without hearing it?
I’m sure you agree that they most certainly needed to hear it - for their own good. So - if the Apostles considered it important that sinners hear and read Scripture…Why should you consider yourself and less worthy?

I hope this helps in some small way.

Peace
James

 

[IesuMariaIoseph]

Friend in Christ Jesus

I know how you feel. Don’t listen to the prompting of the enemy. Don’t worsen your sin by practicing your faith less. That is how the devil wins and we lose. God can disappointed or even angry with but he is disappointed and angry because he is Our Father. So because he is Our Father he never stops loving us. The good son in you wants to return. The bad son in you wants to run from The Father. Trust in God and you’ll be fine.

Go to confession