Firm Purpose of Amendment / Witholding a Mortal Sin from Confession

[PeteZaHut]

If you don’t have a firm purpose of amendment for one sin in confession, but you do with all the rest of the sins, is your whole confession erased or are you just not forgiven for the one sin you didn’t have a firm purpose of amendment for?

What happens when you withold a mortal sin from confession? Is the whole confession erased? If so, What are you supposed to do about not remembering the other sins you confessed.

What if I was in debate whether something was a mortal sin or not. I may have been leaning towards saying it was a mortal sin, but found reasons to try and justify it not being a mortal sin for myself.

 

[LilyM]

If you don’t have a firm purpose of amendment for one sin in confession, but you do with all the rest of the sins, is your whole confession erased or are you just not forgiven for the one sin you didn’t have a firm purpose of amendment for?

What happens when you withold a mortal sin from confession? Is the whole confession erased? If so, What are you supposed to do about not remembering the other sins you confessed.

What if I was in debate whether something was a mortal sin or not. I may have been leaning towards saying it was a mortal sin, but found reasons to try and justify it not being a mortal sin for myself.

Unless you were convicted that it was a mortal sin at the time you made your previous confession and you withheld it anyway, it isn’t an issue and doesn’t invalidate previous confessions.

In general withholding a sin - or lack of a firm purpose of amendment (and how on earth do you judge or define that in any event ) - invalidates all the contents of the confession.

Doesn’t matter if you don’t remember everything you mentioned in your invalid confessions - just confess again what you do remember and say ‘and for these and all the sins of my past life I am truly sorry’. Of course you need to confess having made an invalid confession as well.

 

[palmas85]

If you don’t have a firm purpose of amendment for one sin in confession, but you do with all the rest of the sins, is your whole confession erased or are you just not forgiven for the one sin you didn’t have a firm purpose of amendment for?

What happens when you withold a mortal sin from confession? Is the whole confession erased? If so, What are you supposed to do about not remembering the other sins you confessed.

What if I was in debate whether something was a mortal sin or not. I may have been leaning towards saying it was a mortal sin, but found reasons to try and justify it not being a mortal sin for myself.

If you do not have a firm purpose of amendment the confession is bad.

If you withold a mortal sin in confession the confession is bad.

Your last statement is really kind of tragic. It is not up to you decide what a mortal sin is. They are mortal sins whether you want to accept them as such and or justify them to yourself or not.

Sorry about that one.

As far as the others, I know when I commit a mortal sin and I would wager that almost everyone else does as well. It really isn’t a difficult concept to grasp, it really isn’t.