I'm going to make a general confession

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I’m going to make a general confession today on the feast of Archangel Raphael…he is my angel 🙂 Its also quite special because right around this time September/October of 2005 I was knocked to the ground by the Holy Ghost and exactly a year later I made a life changing confession and received a miracle of grace from Mother Mary, These were my two Saint Paul conversion moments 😃

I have obsessive compulsive disorder and scrupulosity, so i go to confession weekly, sometimes more sometimes less but then I started having these psycho thoughts that i should make a general confession of all the sins of my life…I should finally tell someone in person that I have bisexual attraction:o:( and then some already confessed sins like masturbation :rolleyes: but in doing my examination of conscience from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other ones I found on google, I realized that I have quite a few sins that I have to get off my chest:p I have like 50 plus sins haha maybe 60 or 70 plus hahahaha the poor priest. He loves hearing Confession…His two favourite things are Mary and Confession hahaha

I know it is apparently harmful for me to make a general confession since I am scrupulous but I just want to repent completely and receive a complete healing. I believe its important so I dont have to do this when I’m near death, I will be ready for death and I am also seriously considering entering religious life next year and I just want to love Jesus with my whole heart, I want to despise evil and crush the serpent’s head!👍
 
I’m not really sure what you are asking here but the thing that struck me was when you said you had fify or sixty things to confess.

When I came back to the Church a couple of years ago, I had been away for some 30 years. I made a rather perfunctory confession at that time and received absolution. However I still felt uneasy about things and came to realize there were several things that I should have confessed but didn’t. So - Long story short, I wrote up a confession that I then read to Father.

Since then I have come to realize that many of my sins were sins against the Cardinal Virtues. By that I mean I might commit several sins against purity. This is bad, but the real problem is not each sin, but rather the underlying weakness in me that permits these things to keep happening. Now when I confess either privately to God or to my confessor, I structure my examination and confession in this way. How have I performed in Love, as related to the cardinal virtues.

Hopefully this will help you to avoid the obsessive compulsive issue and feeling you need to confess each and every little transaction. It will also help you to focus on the larger issues of growing in the Virtues and in Holiness.

Hope this helps

Peace
James
 
What’s more important than what you have sinned is that you are repentant and that you go to confession to a priest, not just a Catholic forum post.

God loves you and wants you reconciled to him…so go tell your sins to a priest and let him sort them out…but more importantly, accept his absolution as total forgiveness of your sins and work not to commit them anymore. With God’s grace anything is possible, none of us can do it without his help.

God bless you!
 
Thats interesting bout the cardinal virtues but it seems a little harder for me to examine my conscience that way…

haha I’m going to confess to the priest later today…🙂
 
My general confession was amazing, the best thing I ever did! 🙂
 
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