First Confession and sins

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In R.C.I.A. Class First Confession is roling up pretty soon and I was just wondering if anyone knew of a list of what is a sin and what is not? I know what goes in to make it a sin (Consent, knowladge that it is a sin, ect.) but, I am not sure I know(I am almost pretty sure I don’t know) the list of things that are a sin (i.e. contraception and so forth). Could anyone help me with this? Thanks and God bless.
 
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In R.C.I.A. Class First Confession is roling up pretty soon and I was just wondering if anyone knew of a list of what is a sin and what is not? I know what goes in to make it a sin (Consent, knowladge that it is a sin, ect.) but, I am not sure I know(I am almost pretty sure I don’t know) the list of things that are a sin (i.e. contraception and so forth). Could anyone help me with this? Thanks and God bless.
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Go to a Catholic bookstore and get a pamphlet on how to make a good confession-- sometimes called examination of conscience.

Here are a couple of them online:

scborromeo.org/confess.htm

catholicdoors.com/prayers/consc.htm

catholic-pages.com/penance/examine.asp
 
Here is a simple one . . .

theworkofgod.org/Library/examine.htm

Here is one with much more detail . . .

catholicparents.org/oxcart/examination.html

My recommendation for newbies. . . start with the simpler one. The longer one, if used incorrectly, can lead to one being overly scrupulous. However, as you become accustomed to sacrament, you may feel the need to probe a little deeper before confession.

What I’ve done for myself is taken the longer one, cut & pasted it onto my computer, and deleted all the ones I don’t struggle with on a regular basis. (i.e. if I commit murder or participate in a pagan worship ceremony, I’m pretty sure it’s not going to slip my mind at next confession.) Then I print out my abbreviated list of sins that I tend to struggle with and go through that prior to confession. I find this keeps me from walking out of the confessional and realizing I forgot something.
 
Montie Claunch:
In R.C.I.A. Class First Confession is roling up pretty soon and I was just wondering if anyone knew of a list of what is a sin and what is not? I know what goes in to make it a sin (Consent, knowladge that it is a sin, ect.) but, I am not sure I know(I am almost pretty sure I don’t know) the list of things that are a sin (i.e. contraception and so forth). Could anyone help me with this? Thanks and God bless.
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I use: http://www.catholic.org/frz/examen/mortal_main.htm
 
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forthright:
Here is a simple one . . .

theworkofgod.org/Library/examine.htm

Here is one with much more detail . . .

catholicparents.org/oxcart/examination.html

My recommendation for newbies. . . start with the simpler one. The longer one, if used incorrectly, can lead to one being overly scrupulous. However, as you become accustomed to sacrament, you may feel the need to probe a little deeper before confession.

What I’ve done for myself is taken the longer one, cut & pasted it onto my computer, and deleted all the ones I don’t struggle with on a regular basis. (i.e. if I commit murder or participate in a pagan worship ceremony, I’m pretty sure it’s not going to slip my mind at next confession.) Then I print out my abbreviated list of sins that I tend to struggle with and go through that prior to confession. I find this keeps me from walking out of the confessional and realizing I forgot something.
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Forthright,

It is interesting that your suggestion touches upon a murky area. You suggest cutting and pasting the longer of these two examinations of consicence, but when I went to that site, it said right at the top

***PLEASE NOTE: The following Examination of Conscience by Fr. Robert Altier has a copyright. If you would like a copy of the booklet (cost is $1.25 & includes additional prayers) please contact: ***Leaflet Missal Co. - Publishers and Sellers of Religious Goods Since 1929
www.leafletmissal.org

Now, the question for you is, where do you think you stand morally, if you have not sent off you $1.25 for a copy of the booklet this came from, and therefore could be said to in essence be stealing this priests work in compiling this list of ways each commandment is broken. I realize you aren’t really redistributing this list under your own name, so your not plagiarizing, but you are taking advantage of modifying his direct work to fit your needs, without recompense to the creator of the work. Like I said, a sticky situation. It is the sort of thing that becomes all too common with the “everything on the internet is public domain” opnion that seems all too prevalent nowadays.

God bless you
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Now, the question for you is, where do you think you stand morally, if you have not sent off you $1.25 for a copy of the booklet this came from, and therefore could be said to in essence be stealing this priests work in compiling this list of ways each commandment is broken. I realize you aren’t really redistributing this list under your own name, so your not plagiarizing, but you are taking advantage of modifying his direct work to fit your needs, without recompense to the creator of the work. Like I said, a sticky situation. It is the sort of thing that becomes all too common with the “everything on the internet is public domain” opnion that seems all too prevalent nowadays.
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Now, here I think is an example of being scrupulous. 😉

What do copyright laws concern? They protect the right of the original author (or publisher, or whomever) to sell and profit off of their work so that other people can’t just copy it and sell it under a different name for their own profit-basically stealing.

Now, if the original poster uses the examination of conscience that was made freely available on the internet (with no intent to republish it under a different name or with slight changes for his own profit) I really don’t see how copyright laws have been broken or where he would be guilty of stealing.

What if he memorized it right off the computer screen? Is he guilty of stealing?
 
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ABalch:
Forthright,

Now, the question for you is, where do you think you stand morally, if you have not sent off you $1.25 for a copy of the booklet this came from, and therefore could be said to in essence be stealing this priests work in compiling this list of ways each commandment is broken
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I’m not a lawyer, but I think the copyright laws are there to prevent me from making a profit at the expense of the original author. However, supposing that it really is stealing, then $1.25 is hardly a grave matter, the sin is therefore venial and doesn’t technically need confessed.
 
However, supposing that it really is stealing, then $1.25 is hardly a grave matter, the sin is therefore venial and doesn’t technically need confessed.
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I cannot remember right off hand, but my moral theology book said something like it had to be more than $50 or $100 in order to be grave matter (and the book’s final edition was in the 1950’s, although reprinted by TAN). Wow, I had always thought that practically anything over $1.00 was grave, but then again I am not that old and still remember as a kid when a $5 bill was a respectable amount of money and a $100 was practically a fortune!

But yes, you definately have it right and a $1.25 isn’t grave matter. However, I think we would agree that it isn’t stealing in any form of severity in the first place.
 
I was told in my R.C.I.A class that I did not have to go to confession because once I was baptized that would wash away my sin,So you may not have to go to confession.
 
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I was told in my R.C.I.A class that I did not have to go to confession because once I was baptized that would wash away my sin,So you may not have to go to confession.
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. . . . yet.

I didn’t think about that, but it does depend on how you’re entering the Church. If you’ve never been baptized, then you won’t make your first confession until sometime after Easter (up to a year later). If you have been baptized before, or are receiving a “conditional baptism” at Easter, then you’ll also go through first confession just prior to Easter.
 
Montie Claunch:
In R.C.I.A. Class First Confession is roling up pretty soon and I was just wondering if anyone knew of a list of what is a sin and what is not? I know what goes in to make it a sin (Consent, knowladge that it is a sin, ect.) but, I am not sure I know(I am almost pretty sure I don’t know) the list of things that are a sin (i.e. contraception and so forth). Could anyone help me with this? Thanks and God bless.
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Why would you need to confess? You’re going to be baptized and that will take away original sin as well as any others that you have.

Now, when you commit the next ones, thats when you will have to start worrying about confessions and things. Good luck. 👍

Oh and by the way, there are hundreds of places on the web where you can find lists of sins and their magnitudes. Also somewhere in the books you are using for RCIA there will be sample lists and so forth.

A mortal sin requires grave matter, sufficient reflection and full consent of the will. As George carlin used to say " You had to wanna" They took sanctifying grace out of your soul. They are bad and can send you to Hell… Venial sins are smaller and not so serious and can’t send you to Hell, but can definitely keep you in Purgatory for a long long time. In catechism they used to describe them as small holes in the soul that needed to be repaired.
 
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