Getting over guilt of past sins/vocation

[RomanCath]

Hello I’m currently a teenager in high school, I have a past with sexual sins, one sin still seems to weigh with me though. . . . I have confessed this sin but I still have a level of guilt with it. I am also seriously considering the priesthood, I look at other priests I know and seminarians and I think they have never committed such a bad sin so I could never be as good of a priest as them. I struggle with that part because I look up to them and I know they would view me differently if they found out what I did. Is there any advice on how to get over the guilt of this sin and so if I do enter seminary I can enter with a ready soul.

 

[RomanCath]

I have posted this before it got taken down for some reason before I could read all the responses so I decided to try again. And this issue with talking with the priests at my parish is I have such a personal relationship with them it’d be awkward to talk with them about it.

 

[edward_george1]

before it got taken down for some reason

It was taken down because it isn’t really appropriate to discuss matters of conscience with strangers on the internet.

Talk to your priest. If you do wind up going to seminary, you’ll have to be open with your spiritual director and formator, so may as well get used to that now.

-Fr ACEGC