Non catholics don't feel guilty like catholics! does that bug you2?

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YES!!! My husband & I were discussing this just the other day! He thinks I fret over insignificant things that he believes are not offenses before God (To be fair I am a bit scrupulous), & my belief is that once you start partaking of the Body & Blood of Christ, you become conscious of sin, whereas before you may not have. You can’t unite yourself to Christ in such an intimate fashion & not become conscious of it. But also there is much joy in knowing He’s closer to you than you ever thought possible & He wants to bring healing & cleansing from sin.

:notes:His mercy endureth forever!🎶
 
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If you read the article on the other “Catholic guilt in the way of Catholic faith” thread, where it discusses the TV sitcom character who plans to convert to Catholicism so he can sin all the time and just make it go away by confessing, that is pretty much the scenario that the guy was expressing to me.

Both the guy and I were committing some pretty serious sins at the time. We were probably about to commit a few more when we had this conversation.

Confession only removes all guilt when you have made a good confession with a firm purpose of amendment. At that point in my life I wasn’t even sure what a sin was and what it wasn’t, but I had a disturbing feeling that I was committing them and just denying it to myself, and that I would continue to commit them. Which in hindsight, I was. I was also 21 years old and stupid instead of AARP age and less stupid.
 
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
What nuns?
Since the 70s most Catholic school teachers are lay
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She’s right. I started my 12 years of Catholic school around 1969 and had a grand total of 2 nuns for teachers in the first 8 years, one of whom was a new modern nun who wore short skirts and boots and danced with priests at the church socials. There were a couple other nuns I saw on a sporadic basis for something like music lessons a couple hours a week, or one class in junior high school, but almost all the teachers were lay.

The stereotype of nuns instilling guilt in kids went out probably a few years before I was born.
 
I must have been lucky. I was in Catholic school in the 90’s. The principal, 1st, 3rd, and 6th grade teachers were religious sisters (all but one in full habit). Also the PE teacher was a religious brother and the music teacher was a religious sister (both also in full habit). 🙂

None of them ever guilt tripped me or taught me to feel guilty. The scariest one was my first grade teacher, but that was only because she was very stern and a little less than comforting when my parents separated.
 
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If all Catholics feel guilt then is Catholicism a cure for narcistic psychopaths?
 
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All sinners are blinded by their sins. They love only things of the world and don’t fully understand or care that their sins are an offense to God. Catholics in the state of Sanctifying Grace are enlightened, and can realize how even he smallest sin offends God.
 
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Converting to Catholicism did wonders for me guilt. “Have I committed a mortal sin this week?” is much more answerable than “Did I mean that prayer I prayed at age seven?”
 
I’m a convert back in 1969. I’ve been Catholic more years than I was Baptist. If you get caught up in “fire and brimstone” you are going to have guilt my friends. You might even turn out a little OCD also. LOL If you get the wrong Priest or Preacher that probably has some issues themselves then you can roll around in guilt. We have confession. Of course, you can get the wrong confessor too. Personally, I just don’t go to anybody sitting in the confessional box if you know what I mean. I had a great confessor years ago when I studied in the seminary (didn’t go on to be a priest ,but always a servant), he said to me once,“guilt serves no purpose, lets just talk about what we’re going to do different”. Always has stuck with me.
 
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I had a great confessor years ago when I studied in the seminary (didn’t go on to be a priest ,but always a servant), he said to me once,“guilt serves no purpose, lets just talk about what we’re going to do different”. Always has stuck with me.
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I feel much better that you posted this. I decided many years ago and during a time when I was not really practicing my faith that guilt served no purpose and that those who sought to inflict it (often parents, or in some cases partners or spouses, though thankfully my own spouse never did) were acting in a manipulative way.

Guilt is only productive when it is actually coming from within one’s conscience motivating one to change and be different, such as by going to confession. It is utterly worthless if someone else is trying to shove it on you.
 
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