Have you ever

[Julie_de_Sales]

…experienced things like a priest reading in your soul or a very freeing confession or some important advice that changed your spiritual life? I was impressed by St John Vianney and St Padre Pio and by so much people who recieved help in this Sacrement and I’m curious if today these things still happend.

 

[Dorothy]

…experienced things like a priest reading in your soul or a very freeing confession or some important advice that changed your spiritual life? I was impressed by St John Vianney and St Padre Pio and by so much people who recieved help in this Sacrement and I’m curious if today these things still happend.

Those things still happen today! Many times it is at a retreat, particularly silent retreats at monasteries.

Also, some parish priests have special gifts of spiritual direction.

 

[HillbillyHermit]

The parish priest can read me like a book. The only person who rivals his ability is my Mom. In fact, there are times when his advice and Mom’s are almost identical in wording. Maybe it’s God’s way of saying you’re never too old to listen to your mother.

 

[1love]

…experienced things like a priest reading in your soul or a very freeing confession or some important advice that changed your spiritual life? I was impressed by St John Vianney and St Padre Pio and by so much people who recieved help in this Sacrement and I’m curious if today these things still happend.

Yes. Three times in a row, three different priests, two anonymous and one face to face.
All three of them paused, one says he was pausing to pray for discernment…then they all said “I believe you are struggling with [insert habitual sin I had not yet mentioned]” and all ended up giving me a Marian penance (Hail Holy Queen and two Memorares).

 

[the_phoenix]

Once I went to Confession and wanted to ask a question but didn’t want to waste the priest’s time, so I only confessed my sins. The priest then went ahead and answered the question that I never asked him.

…

 

[bcuster]

Yes, it still happens.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Yes. During Confession with a priest, whom I had never seen before. He read me like a book, told me something about myself that was spot on, and gave me a very appropriate penance. I felt as if Jesus Himself was talking to me.

It still happens.

 

[Lady_Love]

I was just thinking this morning how I wish I knew a priest who could read souls. I was wishing he could tell me my hidden sins or the ones I am blind to or have forgotten.

I just have to trust that I don’t wantonly break faith.

 

[Julie_de_Sales]

I was just thinking this morning how I wish I knew a priest who could read souls. I was wishing he could tell me my hidden sins or the ones I am blind to or have forgotten.

I just have to trust that I don’t wantonly break faith.

I also have this desire and I believe it would help me a lot, but it’s not in my power to make it real. I have had some confessors who gave me life-saving pieces of advice, but non of them really reading my soul. Sometimes is hard when you go to confession and you believe that Jesus is present in the priest, but he doesn’t understand you very well…

 

[Justicia_et_Pax]

In late August 2011, I had an immensely freeing confession, where I confessed something that had been weighing on my mind terribly. I truly believe it snapped me out of a six-month psychotic episode