Prayers while in mortal sin?

[pray4me]

I will not be able to make it to confession until Wednesday, but recently got myself into a state of mortal sin. I pray every day and lately my prayers have been increasingly fervent, to the point where I feel like I really depend on praying to get through the day and avoid sin. While in a state of mortal sin, which I will be until 6 whole days from now, is it alright to pray. What are the general guidelines to prayer while in this state. Masses have also reopened where I live. Could I still pray the mass without sanctifying grace and without receiving Communion.

 

[Vico]

I will not be able to make it to confession until Wednesday, but recently got myself into a state of mortal sin. I pray every day and lately my prayers have been increasingly fervent, to the point where I feel like I really depend on praying to get through the day and avoid sin. While in a state of mortal sin, which I will be until 6 whole days from now, is it alright to pray. What are the general guidelines to prayer while in this state. Masses have also reopened where I live. Could I still pray the mass without sanctifying grace and without receiving Communion.

One can always pray. Note from the Catechism:

1451 Among the penitent’s acts contrition occupies first place. Contrition is "sorrow of the soul and detestation for the sin committed, together with the resolution not to sin again."50

1452 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.51

 

[EXdrinker]

Always, always keep praying! Anytime you pray you are only responding to God’s call for you to enter into prayer. His invitation to prayer always comes first and our’s is a response to this. Since He is calling us to it then it cannot be fruitless, ever.

CCC 2567
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2567.htm
2567 God calls man first . Man may forget his Creator or hide far from his face; he may run after idols or accuse the deity of having abandoned him; yet the living and true God tirelessly calls each person to that mysterious encounter known as prayer. In prayer, the faithful God’s initiative of love always comes first; our own first step is always a response. As God gradually reveals himself and reveals man to himself, prayer appears as a reciprocal call, a covenant drama. Through words and actions, this drama engages the heart. It unfolds throughout the whole history of salvation.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

It’s not only “alright” to pray in a state of mortal sin, it’s encouraged. How else are you going to get the graces to stop sinning and get yourself out of the state of sin? Make an act of perfect contrition to God while you’re praying. That way you’re covered until you get to confession in 6 days. And yes, it’s fine to go to Mass and pray. Just don’t receive communion until you’ve confessed and been absolved.

 

[Dolphin]

Fr. Mike Schmitz - Praying in a State of Mortal Sin

 

[pray4me]

Does 1452 mean that on Sunday, since out of my love for God, I am truly contrite, I can have Sacramental Communion on Sunday. Which I have so longed for over this quarantine.

 

[porthos11]

Does 1452 mean that on Sunday, since out of my love for God, I am truly contrite, I can have Sacramental Communion on Sunday. Which I have so longed for over this quarantine.

No, under normal circumstances, you are not to approach Communion until you have been absolved in Confession.

 

[Vico]

Does 1452 mean that on Sunday, since out of my love for God, I am truly contrite, I can have Sacramental Communion on Sunday. Which I have so longed for over this quarantine.

Really it means that sanctifying grace may be restored even before the sacrament of confession, but the sacrament of confession is to be made before receiving the physical sacrament of Holy Communion, but spiritual communion is possible. A person is not required to receive the Holy Eucharist.

 

[Thom18]

pray4me:

will not be able to make it to confession until Wednesday, but recently got myself into a state of mortal sin

Yes you realize this is a common problem with being in the roman catholic system.
Non catholics don’t have this issue
1john 1: 9
If we confess our sin he is forgiven

Catholics don’t have a problem any more than the Israelites had a problem going to the Levitical priests, offering sacrifice and receiving forgiveness for their faults.

Was God wrong to tell the Jews to sacrifice and receive forgiveness in this way?

 

[Dorothy]

A contrite heart is forgiven before he/she sees the priest.

However, receiving the sacrament and hearing the absolution is awesome, and increases the desire to not do that sin again. It is Jesus speaking through the priest.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said to the apostles…John 20:21 “Receive the Holy Spirit, whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven, whose sins you shall retain they are retained.”