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alliys
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This is an absolutely ridiculous question but I suppose there’s no help for it:
I was raised the Catholic but left the Church as a young teenager, and shortly after determined for a while that I was Wiccan. My reasons for leaving the Church initially were simply that I could not believe in the certain way that it seemed everyone else around me did. But after several years, somehow, without trying to, and actually even trying not to, I’ve started going to Catholic mass again and think I may have found my faith.
But the problem is, I am terrified of going to confession again after denying the Church for over six years. It doesn’t help that I’m living not only in an entirely different diocese than I did before I left, but an entirely different country. The priest here will only know me as a person coming to confession with over half a decade of unconfessed sins. How am I supposed to find to courage to own up to this? I know that I can’t truly come back to the faith without going to confession, so I just don’t know what to do.
I was raised the Catholic but left the Church as a young teenager, and shortly after determined for a while that I was Wiccan. My reasons for leaving the Church initially were simply that I could not believe in the certain way that it seemed everyone else around me did. But after several years, somehow, without trying to, and actually even trying not to, I’ve started going to Catholic mass again and think I may have found my faith.
But the problem is, I am terrified of going to confession again after denying the Church for over six years. It doesn’t help that I’m living not only in an entirely different diocese than I did before I left, but an entirely different country. The priest here will only know me as a person coming to confession with over half a decade of unconfessed sins. How am I supposed to find to courage to own up to this? I know that I can’t truly come back to the faith without going to confession, so I just don’t know what to do.