How often does your Priest teach about sin in Homilies?

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My priest does quite a bit. He even talks about his own sins (nothing specific)…
 
As the Gospel is 50% Mercy and 50% Justice, we should be taught about the downside (Sin and Hell) equallly as much as the upside (Virtue, Love and Heaven).

If over a period of say 12 months, the Priest never preaches the downside, then he is a wolf in sheeps clothing and not a true follower of Christ. Ezh 3.16. He will be culpable before God, wjho commanded (not requested) that his disciples were to teach ALL he commanded (Mt 28).

This is serious stuff, nowadays many clergy are putting themselves and the faithful at risk beacuse as the Gospel tells us “The wages of Sin is death” and the CCC 1874 tells us that dying in un-repented mortal sin, leads us straight to hell for ETERNITY. No second chances there, so it is IMPORTANT to get it right in life.

We need our Shepherds to lead us and show us the way down the narrow path to Salvation. It was revealed to Saint Faustina, that most in Hell did not believe it existed. See link divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm

Woe to the people who did not tell them Ezh 3.16 - See Link

scriptours.com/bible/bible.cgi?oldbook=31&book=31&chapter=3&reference=&x=20&y=10
 
None, sin is a fobidden word in my Parish, all we hear about is Love, Love and more Love. Have you forgot that since Vatican II, we are no longer the One True Faith and ALL can get to Heaven? Why should any Priest worry about preaching about sin when some Moslem who worshipps Mohammed or a Hindu or whatever, all who have rejected our Lord, all can get to heaven, as per our Pope? So why worry about sin is the way I look at it. So why should they?
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Catholic29:
How often does your Priest teach about about sin in his Homilies? Does he often give you insights into your failings and shortcomings and are in need of repentance, or does he give you the I’m ok, your ok, feel good fluff?
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Sir_Hubert said:
I have never heard the Pastor at the church I attend mention sin, nor the outcome of a sinful life. A matter of fact, in one of his sermons he mentioned "All we need to do is love Jesus. If we do that there is no need to follow the Ten Commandments."

***You can imagine the reaction from the kids and their parents of the parish. I know a few families that left after that one. ***

***This question also ties into something that happened yesterday as well. I normally attend Mass every Saturday morning, and yesterdays Mass turned out to be a funeral Mass. What was most disturbing was that the Pastor never asked the congragation to pray for the soul of the departed. He mentioned that the departed was “A good man” and that “He was with Christ in heaven.” ***

Our pastor frequently mentions that we should “stay in prayer”, but frequently sends mixed messages in his sermons.

Please take a moment to say a short prayer for the holy souls in Purgatory. With some of the messages out there, I’m afraid they are forgotten.

In His peace!
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Get the heck out of this parish and find an orthodox priest, they exist.

Padre Pio “Don’t worry, work and pray.”
 
Great advice, agreed
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Get the heck out of this parish and find an orthodox priest, they exist.

Padre Pio “Don’t worry, work and pray.”
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sugar,spice and everything nice

sin?:nope:
hell?:nope:
never:nope:

blah blah blah:yup:

have to keep myself in check:yup:

starve all week for the truth:yup:

zippo:yup:

fast and pray for our priests:yup: yups win!
Peace and Love
 
One of our priests preached that the way he looks at God is that God never says no but always says yes…yes to what is good for us. Okay, so I was thinking what if it’s not good for us??? The priest could not bear to say what he considers negative theology. Well, we all know what happens when parents never say no to their children then they become spoiled brats out of control…just like we see in most Catholics today because our shepherds don’t want to mention the word no - unless, of course they are the orthodox then things get very negative. Funny how that works!

I’m afraid to tell you that this same priest was made a bishop a month ago.
 
Speaking of which, Archbishop Sheen told a story once on how he was in the toy store once and this mother was letting her kid running around, and ruining everything saying “your learning, your learning.” And I’m thinking, gosh, our society got out of control a long time ago. As a matter of fact Jesus appeared to Padre Pio once and pointed to a bunch of priests and he called them “butchers!”

Padre Pio “Don’t worry, work and pray.”
 
debbie m.:
One of our priests preached that the way he looks at God is that God never says no but always says yes…yes to what is good for us. Okay, so I was thinking what if it’s not good for us???
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debbie m,

But the priest is right…God will always give us what is good for us. It depends what you define what is ‘good’. What is good for our soul is miles away what we would consider as good. Like humility…to learn humility one must get humiliated. Like holiness…to receive the gift of holiness, well, that is a whole can of worms in itself. Just read the saints’ lives…God ALWAYS gave them what was good for their soul. At the expense of many a worldly definition of what is good.

Blessings,
Shoshana
 
We hear about sin all the time, and every sin is covered. This past weekend, the first Sunday in Lent, we had a good part of the 20 minutes on Satan. We were also reminded once that the rules of the Church require support of the Church. The priest remarked that in all his time as a priest, no one had ever confessed that he/she did not provide such support. He asked us to think about it.
 
had a great sermon Sunday on the temptations of Christ and relating those 3 types of tempation to those we face daily–through the senses, power, and claiming perogatives of God for ourselves. Great sermon on the real possibility of Hell and the sin of presumption, when is the last time you heard a priest on that topic. He pretty much demolished the “but I’m a good person” theory of the particular judgement.
 
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