I just made my first real confession! But I got stopped by the priest?

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Okay Y’all, I just made my first real confession. I wasn’t ever really taught about it well back when I was a kid, and I’ve recently “rediscovered” my Catholic faith of you will. Long story short, I went to confession for the first time after many, many long years. I tried my best and even had to interrupt the priest once to tell him I forgot something. He told me that all my sins were forgiven, and poor soul, I’m not blaming the priest, He was real sweet and kind, but when Interruped him I had a feeling he was a little irritated and kind of implied to let him finish. The problem is that when he was absolving me I remember this one time I was real rude to an uncle of mine when I was young. I was going to speak up, but I remembered how the priest had kind of asked me to let him finish. I figured that the sin might not even be mortal since it was more a matter of me telling my uncle he was arrogant ( which believe me the man was! Bless his soul). I ended up not telling him just because I thought it was not bad and because I didn’t want to interrupt the poor dear priest. The problem is that I thought on it, and thought on it, and now I think it was more a matter of I had a huge grudge against the man for several reasons. At the time The grudge never entered my mind so I honestly forgot that part, but as far as it seems, do y’all think I made a incorrect confession?

Thanks and God bless y’all!
 
Congrats on your Confession!!!

Here’s the deal, the sin you refer to (being rude to your uncle) is not a mortal sin. Furthermore, the priest was in the middle of absolving you. Thus, with those two in mind, your confession was valid, and he even absolved you of being rude to your uncle. The sins you remember after absolution (or during absolution) are forgiven. Unless they are a mortal sin, but being rude to your uncle is not a mortal sin.

So you’re all good!
 
It’s wonderful you’re practicing the Faith again!!!

No, your confession was fine. It was not a mortal sin, and you remembered it as you were being absolved, so you did not purposely leave it out. I forget venial things all the time in confession and I’ll remember them right after I get out of the confessional :roll_eyes: But it doesn’t matter since all your sins were forgiven, and they are in the past, so don’t worry. Do your penance and enjoy the feeling of a burden lifted from your shoulders, and your reconciliation with Christ
 
Oh, I hate it when I remember things while in the middle of saying the act of contrition…
 
Bless y’all! I was afraid I was gonna have to confess all that honking mess again because of my uncle of all things 😂! Considering all the other kinds of mess that I mustered the courage to confess it would’ve been terrible to have lost absolution because I can’t keep my sassy mouth shut!
 
Some times I’ll have a list of say eight things that I want to confess, get into the confessional, say the first five and my mind goes completely blank on the last three. Wait a few seconds and if I can’t remember the rest I’ll just stop there.

Old age setting in I guess.😜
 
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Here’s the deal, the sin you refer to (being rude to your uncle) is not a mortal sin. Furthermore, the priest was in the middle of absolving you. Thus, with those two in mind, your confession was valid, and he even absolved you of being rude to your uncle. The sins you remember after absolution (or during absolution) are forgiven. Unless they are a mortal sin, but being rude to your uncle is not a mortal sin.
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As a clarification: Mortal sins are still forgiven if they are forgotten in confession; however we are still obligated to bring them up in our next confession. But if one goes to confession and confesses all mortal sins that one is aware of, all mortal sins are forgiven, even if one has forgotten.
 
This sure is good to know! Maybe, just to clear my conscience I’ll mention this during my next confession.
 
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My Priest suggested writing down the sins we want to confess. And bring the list with us to confession.
 
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Congratulations on your return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Don’t worry it was a valid Confession with forgiveness of all your sins. Your intent was to make a good Confession & you did. It’s also good to say “For these sins & all the sins of my life; I am truly sorry” after you state your sins to the Priest. This way you are including those sins you may have forgotten to state. God bless.
 
I always found a smartphone good for this, as it’s very easy to delete after.
 
Hey, if you were in confession and sorrowful for your sin, I have been taught that it was valid. If you had remembered it and held back or more to the point just thought ‘no way, not that one’, then I wouldn’t be so sure.
 
Let’s dance!!!

Yippie!!!

So glad you returned to confession. Do you realize all of heaven is rejoicing?!

And you know what? You can go to Confession again, and again, because as humans, we keep messing up. Make it a habit, go every month or so, or whatever you can manage. All the graces you will receive!

Your post made me very happy. God bless you. And please pray for me.
 
Your post just made ME very happy 🙂 and I thank you. I’ll pray for you but please pray for me too. And may the Lord Bless your sweet soul very, very much!
 
Its ok you are absolved next time you go to confession if you remember that particular sin just tell the confessor. If you were intentionally withholding a sin that would make the sacrament of reconciliation invalid but that isn’t what you were doing it seems like. God understands! and believe me I know what it is like to be scrupulous but I think you will be ok because you did nothing wrong insomuch as far as I can tell based on what the catechism says.
 
I try to use notes because now i feel so afraid to miss something but even using them still remember things…nit able to say all…
 
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