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If you forget to confess a sin but are sorry for it, is it forgiven?
 
All sins are forgiven if you have true contrition (which is a bit more than “feeling sorry”, but you get the idea). Your confession is valid if you do not withhold mortal sins deliberately, therefore, it does not make your confession invalid to forget to mention a sin.
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If you forget to confess a sin, you must confess it the next time you go to confession.
 
Thanks. If I forgot to confess a motal sin, but will confess it next time, may I recieve communion?
 
Yes. Both after the first confession (when you forgot to mention that sin) and, naturally, after the next valid confession, too.
 
Grow,

I would check with your priest. If you forgot to confess this during your confession, I am not 100% sure that “all is forgiven.”

Again, I have no back up for this, but I remember a priest once saying that if you forget to confess a sin, then all of the sins are not forgiven. He said that sins of omission are worse than sins of comission.

If I were you, I would just be careful, the gravity of receiving communion unworthly would be higher than the one sin that you need to confess.

Again, please talk with your priest.
 
Mirror, if someone makes a good confession but forgets, uinintentionally, to mention a sin, how can that confession be invalid? There is no intention to do wrong, and therefore, there is no sin involved! This is not deliberately omitting a mortal sin from the confession! If the OP prepared well for the confession, and made a thorough examination of conscience, forgetting to mention a sin is unintentional, clearly.
And if the confession was valid, the OP can receive communion.
To forget something is not a sin of ommission. A sin of ommission is not doing something you know you should do, but decide not to.
Growth, just make sure that the next time you go to confession you mention that last time you forgot to mention a sin and therefore you confess it now.
 
Margita said:
Mirror, if someone makes a good confession but forgets, uinintentionally, to mention a sin, how can that confession be invalid? There is no intention to do wrong, and therefore, there is no sin involved! This is not deliberately omitting a mortal sin from the confession! If the OP prepared well for the confession, and made a thorough examination of conscience, forgetting to mention a sin is unintentional, clearly.
And if the confession was valid, the OP can receive communion.
To forget something is not a sin of ommission. A sin of ommission is not doing something you know you should do, but decide not to.
Growth, just make sure that the next time you go to confession you mention that last time you forgot to mention a sin and therefore you confess it now.
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Margita,

First of, I think that you have read too much into both posts. I simply stated my opinion of what I thought and said that I did not have a “backup” for this.

You said that if she was readily prepared for the confession and then realized afterwards that she forgot something then it was valid. While that may be true, you do not know what was on her heart at that time and the circumstances surrounding that.

The question from the OP was not very specific. Did she remember the sin as she left the confessional? As she was driving home? That night? During confession? Right after?

I was just offering some advice, that is all.
 
If you honsetly forgot to confess a mortal sin, it is forgiven anyways. You do not even need to reconfess it, but doing so is recommended none the less for the sake of your conscience and peace of mind.

Baring any mortal sins since, you should be fine for recieving communion. If you purposly omitted a serious sin, then the confession would be totaly invalid. But that dose not seem to be your case.
 
I thought that was the whole point of saying after your sins are professed “for these and all the sins of my life, I am very sorry” (after you are finished stating your sins) …I always thought that that meant that “forgotten” sins are covered???
 
mamacita said:
I thought that was the whole point of saying after your sins are professed “for these and all the sins of my life, I am very sorry” (after you are finished stating your sins) …I always thought that that meant that “forgotten” sins are covered???
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:yup: cept I specifically say ‘for these and any sins I may have forgotten’
 
Mirror_Mirror said:
Again, I have no back up for this, but I remember a priest once saying that if you forget to confess a sin, then all of the sins are not forgiven.
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You are thinking of when someone deliberately omits to confess a mortal sin. If someone forgets by accident, then the sins are forgiven.
He said that sins of omission are worse than sins of comission.
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That’s a separate issue altogether, and has nothing to do with forgetting sins in Confession (unless you forget or deliberately neglect to confess your sins of omission, of course! 😉 )
 
mamacita said:
I thought that was the whole point of saying after your sins are professed “for these and all the sins of my life, I am very sorry” (after you are finished stating your sins) …I always thought that that meant that “forgotten” sins are covered???
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LilyM said:
:yup: cept I specifically say ‘for these and any sins I may have forgotten’
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Same here. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
You are thinking of when someone deliberately omits to confess a mortal sin. If someone forgets by accident, then the sins are forgiven.
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True, I guess that I did not state that properly, thanks for editing for me 👍
That’s a separate issue altogether, and has nothing to do with forgetting sins in Confession (unless you forget or deliberately neglect to confess your sins of omission, of course! 😉 )
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That is what I was talking about, intentionally not saying a sin in the confessional.
 
"jmcrae:
You are thinking of when someone deliberately omits to confess a mortal sin. If someone forgets by accident, then the sins are forgiven.

True, I guess that I did not state that properly, thanks for editing for me
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OK so now we have finally gotten back to the original post:
Grow in Faith said:
If you forget to confess a sin but are sorry for it, is it forgiven?
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Grow_in_Faith said:
If you forget to confess a sin but are sorry for it, is it forgiven?
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This is from the old Catholic Encyclopedia:
The Catholic teaching consequently is: that all mortal sins must be confessed of which the penitent is conscious, for these are so related that noone of them can be remitted until all are remitted. Remission means that the soul is restored to the friendship of God; and this is obviously impossible if there remain unforgiven even a single mortal sin. Hence, the penitent, who in confession willfully conceals a mortal sin, derives no benefit whatever; on the contrary, he makes void the sacrament and thereby incurs the guilt of sacrilege. If, however, the sin be omitted, not through any fault of the penitent, but through forgetfulness, it is forgiven indirectly; but it must be declared at the nextconfession and thus submitted to the power of the keys…
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newadvent.org/cathen/11618c.htm
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