Mortal sins....if not confessed

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What happens if you have mortal sins, and you haven’t confessed them, because you never knew you needed to confess(not Catholic) but now have heart wrenching pain over these sins but still can’t go to confession because not a Catholic? Like what happens if I die before in the Church? I have asked God for forgiveness. He knows how much I hate these certain sins I participated in, how much they caused me to hate myself. Only his love allowed me to forgive myself and to stop hating myself every time I looked in the mirror but I know they need to be confessed to a Priest. How does this work for a non-Catholic?
 
Are you baptized?

Edit: I know there aren’t details in this post, but there are ways to be forgiven outside of Confession. Baptized or not. Still become Catholic of course, but know that.
 
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If you are in inquiry classes or RCIA, then speak with Father at your earliest opportunity. You can make an act of contrition right now and rely on God’s mercy - which is inexhaustable.

The Lord is not a trickster who waits around the corner to send you to hell! He is a loving, kind, long-suffering Father, granting you every grace necessary to experience this life in abundance, and eternity in His presence.
 
I was baptized when a baby in a Methodist Church. Baptized as an adult in a baptist church, because they said when done as an infant didn’t count.
 
RCIA starts in Aug. I will go to the link you sent… editing. I have been praying that daily for a few days now. This prayer is in the Chaplet for St. Mary Magdalene which I’ve been saying as feeling connected with her. Sorry. Went to type all tha earlier but kids were needing things, so distracted lol
 
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Do speak with Father about this, as the Lord will not refuse a contrite heart. You deserve to live in peace.
 
I will. Thank you.
Will say I’m scared to confess. Telling others of sins is embarrassing.
 
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I mean being truly sorry for your sins for the SOLE reason that you have offended God by them. No other reason can be present.
 
#1452 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

“When it arises from a love by which God is loved above all else, contrition is called “perfect” (contrition of charity). Such contrition remits venial sins; it also obtains forgiveness of mortal sins if it includes the firm resolution to have recourse to sacramental confession as soon as possible.”

So essentially, the motive for the sorrow here is that you have offended God, and so it is contrition out of love for God.
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I mean being truly sorry for your sins for the SOLE reason that you have offended God by them. No other reason can be present.
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I think it’s somewhat misleading to say that no other reason can be present; I don’t think perfect contrition is excluded in a case where one ALSO fears hell, for instance, but rather that cannot be a motive that determines such an act of contrition. So in that sense it is true.

Fr. John Hardon says this on the topic:

“n the act of perfect contrition other motives can coexist with the perfect love required. There can be fear or gratitude, or even lesser motives such as self-respect and self-interest, along with the dominant reason for sorrow, which is love for God.”
 
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This is how we should feel when we sin. You have true contrition; please be at peace.
 
It is sin that is about a year old and I thought I was passed it but it really hit me today as I was praying the chaplet of St. Mary Magdalene.
 
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