I need help and prayers. Did I sin?

[MiserableSinner]

I was in Mass today and the homily involved the priest discussing how “the Church has made barriers for people. For instance, people who have divorced and remarried.” He went on to tell us that we need to be blameless before Christ in the same homily.

I’m a simple man. I don’t know everything. But when a priest says the Church, our God-given and God-protected authority on moral truth, is making barriers for people by not letting adulterers receive the Eucharist - I know it is wrong. It does 2 things:

1. Supports grave sin against God
2. Gives the impression that the Church is unjustly creating “barriers” - that the authority of the Church can not be trusted

I know all too well that the authority of the Church MUST be trusted and that the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals the Truth to us. I know this because I was one of the worst sinners on the planet before coming back, and my conscience was corrupted. My flesh wanted me to commit heresy all the time, and it still tries to get me to. But I know it is my flesh doing that because the Bible says heresy is a work of the flesh. God has been restoring my conscience btw, and He has been doing so very mercifully. He is very merciful. Very very merciful (TRUST HIM!)

Anyways, when he said that, I was worried about the people around me. I normally would have said this under my breath, but I said it so those around me could here. Right after he supported the adulterers receiving Holy Communion and said the Church is creating barriers, I said out loud “Jesus please help God.”

Did I commit a grave sin by speaking in the middle of the homily? Even though the priest was gravely wrong, two grave sins don’t make a virtue. Did I sin at all? I had the interest of the members of the Body of Christ around me in mind by saying it out loud.

This leads me to another question. Say for instance a priest does something that is arguably the same sin. He says the Church is making barriers for people by not letting practicing homosexuals receive Communion from the pulpit. Is it a sin to stand up and say something? Are we supposed to keep quiet no matter WHAT is said? Because with the gay lobby in the Church - this is a serious possibility and may have already happened.

Help me and pray for me please, for I am a miserable sinner just like God’s priest who was giving a homily when I decided to speak out loud.

Did I sin? Should I have not spoken out loud at all or should I have stood up and said something? Or should I have done exactly what did?

I almost didn’t receive Communion…

 

[Evania]

Perhaps you can make an appointment and speak with the priest.

 

[MiserableSinner]

Perhaps you can make an appointment and speak with the priest.

I talked to him after the Mass. I was unsuccessful at changing his mind on the spot but the Holy Spirit is still with him every day.

You have to figure that when someone is so far from the Church’s teaching that they blame the Church for people who commit adultery and remain in adultery not being able to receive the literal Body and Blood of God - a lowly person like me talking to them won’t do much.

The Pope has to take action. The gay lobby, priests and I hear also bishops in Germany supporting adulterers receiving the Holy Body and Blood of God’s Son, priests teaching heresies etc etc…

Remember when the Jesuits set out to fight Protestant heresies in the first place? Well now that the vast majority of the Church stopped fighting heresy - heresy is in the Church. We need a new campaign to crush heresy in the Church and undo what the devil has done in recent years. Satan is fighting. We need to fight back!

This is the worst I have seen so far in my parish but I have heard of worse in other parishes. The same priest called a Muslim man “righteous.” No one can be righteous apart from Christ. It confuses the flock when he says things like that. This is serious. ETERNAL SOULS are on the line. Christ’s Body and Blood is on the line.

I hope someone can answer my questions in the OP though

Did I sin?

What should I have done?

Is there a point in time when we should literally stand up and say something? I can’t imagine being at a homily where teenagers are present who are already having their minds filled with worldly ideology from Satan and then a priest comes out in favor of something like gay marriage and starts talking about the Church making barriers. This was arguably the same thing, and I do wonder what course of action is appropriate.

I love this priest, and he probably has good intentions. But this is dangerous to the flock and if no one does anything, it could lead to souls being lost.

The same priest counseled me that if I am married outside of the Church and have not been married in the Church yet, I don’t have to be celibate if my conscience says so. I can resume marital relations and receive the Eucharist. He counseled me to commit what the Church teaches is a grave sin, and then commit a far worse one - sacrilege against the Eucharist: provided my conscience says it is OK. To follow my conscience. If this is the kind of counsel he gives everyone, doesn’t it put souls in danger?

Please ask God to help

I salute you all
I salute your Guardian Angels
I love you all

 

[1ke]

Did I sin?

I don’t know why you think you committed a sin. A social faux pas, yes. A sin, no.

What should I have done?

Speak to the priest privately afterwards, which it seems you have done.

Is there a point in time when we should literally stand up and say something?

No.

Fraternal correction should take place privately, one on one.

I can’t imagine being at a homily where teenagers are present who are already having their minds filled with worldly ideology from Satan and then a priest comes out in favor of something like gay marriage and starts talking about the Church making barriers.

Ah but you are imagining, because that didn’t happen.

I love this priest, and he probably has good intentions. But this is dangerous to the flock and if no one does anything, it could lead to souls being lost.

the correct thing to do is talk to him privately. If you have serious concerns that he does not address, the next thing you could do is talk to the dean of your deanery or to the vicar for clergy at your diocese.

 

[MiserableSinner]

Not a sin - thanks. I thought it was a sin to speak out loud like that during the homily. I’m sure it is when there is malice or neglect against God or neighbor but I guess not in this case?

Always in private

And how do I know when I should go above him? If you saw and experienced exactly what I described here, what would you do? I’m slow of mind and dull of heart. Help me out please

Thanks for the response

I salute you
I salute your Guardian Angel

 

[Evania]

Be at peace, OP. I can’t tell you whether you sinned or not, but go ahead and get it off your chest in confession. God loves you!

 

[MiserableSinner]

Be at peace, OP. I can’t tell you whether you sinned or not, but go ahead and get it off your chest in confession. God loves you!

That’s why I did. The priest told me I did not sin, and this is a good priest who God often reveals things to that he could not know otherwise. He told me I did a holy thing and to trust the Holy Spirit and trust that He is working through me.

God loves you!

I salute you
I salute your Guardian Angel

 

[1ke]

And how do I know when I should go above him? If you saw and experienced exactly what I described here, what would you do? I’m slow of mind and dull of heart. Help me out please

We can’t tell you that. It’s your own prudential judgment.

 

[kozlosap]

We can’t tell you that. It’s your own prudential judgment.

MiserableSinner - You sound like such a caring person, but you need to care for yourself! Please talk to a therapist about scrupulosity so maybe you can understand where sometimes we are just projecting our own fears onto others. Yes, I am not a huge fan of psychobabble, but once in a while we have to partake.