If you repent but dont confess to a priest, are you still forgiven?

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Deo_Gratias42 said:
This is incorrect. No absolution for mortal sins, no receiving communion. What you say is very bad counsel and could cost someone their soul.
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You are right. Now, the person may have been forgiven, that is God’s judgement. But, in my not so humble opinion, to receive communion is at best a very rude thing to do before such a good and merciful God. It certainly would not be an act of humility.
 
Psalitte said:
I don’t believe there is never a grave reason to receive Communion, especially when the state of your soul is questionable. The only time I can think of, is to prevent a desecration from occuring.
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The Church judges that there* could* be - but that an “exception” and there are yes very particular criteria.

Normally one is* not *to ever receive if one has committed a mortal sin -not matter how contrite one is - until one goes to confession and is absolved.
 
God forgives you no matter what. Reconciliation with a priest is so that you can forgive yourself, be reconciled to others, and be guided on a better path.
 
Lucia24 said:
God forgives you no matter what. Reconciliation with a priest is so that you can forgive yourself, be reconciled to others, and be guided on a better path.
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No, not quite. Confession is very much for our forgiveness. God does not forgive us no matter what, otherwise, it wouldn’t matter if we sinned. Confession is also a reconciliation with the church, it definitely has psychological benefit, it allows us to forgive ourselves for hurting others, it puts us on a better path, yes, all these things, but it definitely provides God’s forgiveness as well, which of all these things, is probably the most important.
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In ordinary circumstances–read: all but dire circumstances–yes, confession (or intent to confess, which is not, “I will confess in December during the penance service with that traveling priest I like who has a soothing confession voice,” but more like, “I will confess as soon I can”) is required.
 
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