question about masturbation and confession

[FMLJoliecouer]

Do I need to confess to a priest every time I masturbate in order to receive communion…

Or can I wait til the scheduled confession time on Saturdays…

I usually go to mass every day.

I am a female sex addict and have been able to stay away from porn for quite some time…and doing well with masturbation for the most part. I am a single mom with 2 kids.

It is usually under high periods of stress…like now…when I do it. You cant even imagine the stress…its amazing I do as well as I am.

I suffer from a number of mental health problems although I am on meds for schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.

Am I even culpable?

 

[WetCatechumen]

Do I need to confess to a priest every time I masturbate in order to receive communion…

Or can I wait til the scheduled confession time on Saturdays…

I usually go to mass every day.

I am a female sex addict and have been able to stay away from porn for quite some time…and doing well with masturbation for the most part. I am a single mom with 2 kids.

It is usually under high periods of stress…like now…when I do it. You cant even imagine the stress…its amazing I do as well as I am.

I suffer from a number of mental health problems although I am on meds for schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.

Am I even culpable?

Talk to your confessor about it, not to people on the internet. He will give you instructions on when to receive.

 

[Totterman]

Jesus,our Lords peace be whit You.
You need to talk to Your priest,not as a confession as such,but to find some way out from Your addict.
I wish I could give a ansver to You,I truly do,but I cant. I will offer one Hail Mary to You,and hope that all will be fine,and it will,trust Your faith.

 

[Lapey]

Jesus,our Lords peace be whit You.
You need to talk to Your priest,not as a confession as such,but to find some way out from Your addict.
I wish I could give a ansver to You,I truly do,but I cant. I will offer one Hail Mary to You,and hope that all will be fine,and it will,trust Your faith.

My prayers are also with you in your stressfull struggles. These two posts are dead on in my opinion, however I would add, if the priest you seek guidance for your issue tells you that masturbation is not sinfull, run to another.

From my experience working with teens and theology of the body issues I have had a few priests tell the same kids that I just got finished telling how wrong this action is that its not sin. Well you can see how confusing this is.

 

[JackVk]

Yes, you do.

Have you read the chastity tab here? Jason Evert really helped me with it, so I think you’d get something out of his works as well. I understand it’s a tough habit to break. Hang in there, and keep praying.

 

[tskrobacz]

Who among us is truly “worthy” to receive communion?

 

[BrotherPaulMary]

Short answer is Yes you do.

Long answer is keep fighting and you will succeed because God wants you to succeed.

God Bless

Br. Paul

 

[Semandreu]

A simple yes is my answer.

I know it’s realy hard for many to confess every time they fall in this kind of sin. Why don’t you also try to have fasting…some says it really helps to avoid such sin.

I’ll pray for you.

 

[Barbkw]

Confessing each time, is how I broke the habit.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church;

2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.

The last paragraph confirms what others have said that you need to speak with a priest on it.

Jim