How often do you do to Confession?

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Well, I just came into the Church at Easter and I made my 1st confession in March and I am going Wednesday for my second. I plan to make it at least monthly if not more. I really like confession, it helps me have a better week!
 
Since coming back to the church I would say its been about every 2 weeks, id like to keep that up
 
I make it a point to go every two weeks, even if I do not have any mortal sin to confess. And I go for the grace that comes from every sacrament, not to mention confession. I like to obtain supernatural help while I am still on earth. After we die it will be too late. We need it for everyday living.
 
tgliang said:
I make it a point to go every two weeks, even if I do not have any mortal sin to confess. And I go for the grace that comes from every sacrament, not to mention confession. I like to obtain supernatural help while I am still on earth. After we die it will be too late. We need it for everyday living.
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Well said. 👍
 
I go about once every 2 or 3 weeks.

Some point in time of my life, once a year or more than a year. :o , that was when I was in a some sort of mess.

Now, I have tasted the grace of God and never again want to repeat my deadly mistake.

Going to confession more often has helped me so much.
 
tgliang said:
I make it a point to go every two weeks, even if I do not have any mortal sin to confess. And I go for the grace that comes from every sacrament, not to mention confession. I like to obtain supernatural help while I am still on earth. After we die it will be too late. We need it for everyday living.
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To continue on what I said about this years ago … if God wants us to go from point A to point B, and we needed a crutch, He would be a cruel God if He did not provide us a crutch. But He is a good God. Well, point A is the earth and point B is heaven, and we need some aid because of original sin and the devil, without which a good Christian life would be exceedingly hard and practically impossible. Hence, 2000 years ago Christ instituted confession (among other sacraments) . So, instead of worrying about “impending” doomsdays, it is up to us to make use of confessions.

Tom Liang
 
Sir_Knight said:
Who is it that is discouraging you? Point out to them that JP2 went three times a week and Mother Theresa went every day.
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Yes, but these people are most likely saints and also most likely had a very sensitive disposition to sin, more than any one of us. There is a term for this and it’s not coming to mind right now, but it’s very common among the saints. St. Thomas Aquinas went to confession daily. This is a calling to these people who most likely needed an inordinate amount of grace to persevere in their mission to the Church and to God. Not all of us are called to this kind of heroic dedication.

I used to go two times a month but lately I am tailing off a little. I found a bit of a struggle with frequent confession and I wonder if anyone else had this as well?

I found it hard to confess the same habitual failings and have what I felt was enough contrition. It became very dry and monotonous. I thought maybe if I went less often I could find more contrition. I also thought that maybe if was having frequent confession, maybe I should have a spiritual advisor to try to work on my bad habits, but trying to find one of those is pretty difficult and I don’t have time really to pursue that.

Auugh- anyone else work through something like this?
 
I go lately about every 2 months, which my confessor said is fine for me.
 
I probably do not receive the Sacrament of Confession as often as I should but I do consider my attendance at every Mass a confession, the recital of the Our Father a confession, the Handshake of Peace a confession…our church offers us many opportunities to come to peace with ourselves and others.
 
Okay, so I guess I’m making some improvement. I didn’t go for about fifteen years. Then it was twice a year. Now it’s about once a month or so. (More if I’m in mortal sin–I do NOT like to not be able to receive communion!!)
 
kristie_m said:
Okay, so I guess I’m making some improvement.
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Me, too. I didn’t go for 8 years. Then I would go every year or two. Then one of my children asked me why we only went once a year. Can you think of a good answer for that? So we started to go every 3 months or so. This year, I’m trying to trim it to every 2 months. I thought I would run out of stuff to say going that often, but sadly, I haven’t. My part of the world is heavily Catholic, but I know very few people in real life who “believe” in confession. They look at me like I’m a little crazy. DH doesn’t get it, either.
 
Unfortunately my job in health care requires that I work every other weekend. So I’m only able to go to Confession twice per month, unless there are special weekday Confessions as in the cases of Advent and Easter.
 
Right now, I seem to be going about every six weeks or so, even though I’ve been trying to go at least once a month.

My job this year complicates things a bit, since I’'m often working on Saturday afternoons. :o
 
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