On the contrary, your priest will rejoice with you. He is not there to condemn you, but to absolve you so that the grace and mercy of God can be poured into your soul once again. There is nothing a priest will find more joyfull than one who has returned home after being away. You will not confess anything that he hasn’t heard a thousand times, no matter how shameful you may think it is and I promise you it will not be held against you.
So… you over looked the “black curse” it would seem?The only thing I can’t stand about Mormons is that the overwhelming majority of them vote neoconservative.
It’s just that it would be hard to ever face him again. Should I try going to another church for the confession maybe? There is another one equally very close to me.
It is very important that you understand to whom you are really confessing, and that is to God. I totally get it as far as your reluctance to share your most shameful acts and thoughts with the priest who knows you, but here is the question. Do you think he believes that you are without sin? There is another principal here in that all of us in the human family share the same defects. Your priest knows this. You are not going to be confessing anything new to him. It is better, I think, that that you confess to the priest that knows you as he will be able to give you better guidance. But, if this is a huge issue, by all means go to the other parish priest. The point is, go to confession somewhere. You will feel like you have been living in the woods for a year and finally got to take a hot shower.
You are right in all ways. I will do it.
I will pray for you tonight. The voice that whispers in your ear “don’t do it, just imagine what the priest will think of you” is the voice of the enemy who wishes to keep you in your sin. God cannot wait for you to be reconciled with Him and He has told us “I will remember your sins no more”. They are literally gone, as if they never happened.
I don’t really understand what you mean.
FMX, echoing Steve here. If you have that voice whisper “don’t do it”…Tell that voice to bug off and take a serious hike…Tell that voice that kind of suggestion is of no value to you…
At the national level, yea I agree…Not so much at the local level…They can actually be quite moderate from time to time…(I lived in UT for many years)The only thing I can’t stand about Mormons is that the overwhelming majority of them vote neoconservative.
Sorry, I was saying that the confessional, and being behind the screen, is better for confessing your sins, rather than sitting witha priest in a little room, in a somewhat mundane setting that has nothing to set the sacrament apart from anyother event in your life.
Will do.FMX, echoing Steve here. If you have that voice whisper “don’t do it”…Tell that voice to bug off and take a serious hike…Tell that voice that kind of suggestion is of no value to you…
I’ll be praying for you too…
I see now, since it can only make you feel even more akward also.
No prob, Bob.
FMX…Only thing I want to add, is yes, confession is/can be awkward. Facing our guilt, our sins, is never a joyful experience. It is very embarrassing and even humiliating. Those are fair statements.
That is a very good question.
She is more or less a big reason that I avoid church. Ah, that’s it I remember now why I started this thread. I was suppose to slowly get to a point but I got distracted from it. Prepare yourself…