Question about mortal sin

[mmmcloug]

If someone commits a mortal sin, immediately regrets it and seeks to be reconciled with God through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, but is unable to attend the Sacrament for 2 days due to lack of availablity, what happens if they die in these 2 days? If their heart is repentant and they have every intention of going to confession but are not able to for reasons outside of their control, do they still go to Hell?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Joe_5859]

I would tend to put it in the same boat as “Baptism of desire” of those who are going through RCIA and die before they are baptized.

 

[bmullins]

CCC 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.

If you are truly contrite, and truly intend to go to confession and die before hand, it is possible for even mortal sin to be forgiven. God is just and gracious. He won’t send you to hell when you are trying to do what is right and die on the way to doing it.

 

[Cristiano]

If someone commits a mortal sin, immediately regrets it and seeks to be reconciled with God through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, but is unable to attend the Sacrament for 2 days due to lack of availablity, what happens if they die in these 2 days? If their heart is repentant and they have every intention of going to confession but are not able to for reasons outside of their control, do they still go to Hell?

Thanks for your help.

We do not know, we must trust in the fact that God wants us in heaven and that he is perfectly merciful; however, we cannot presume that he will not be perfectly just.

 

[NickVA]

Psalm 51 my sacrifice, a contrite spirit,
a humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.

If you have true contrition, an truly intend to Confess ASAP, I do not think that God, in his goodness would be able to not forgive you.

 

[Neofight]

CCC 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.

If you are truly contrite, and truly intend to go to confession and die before hand, it is possible for even mortal sin to be forgiven. God is just and gracious. He won’t send you to hell when you are trying to do what is right and die on the way to doing it.

Amen to that. Truly as Jesus said, he did not come to condemn, but to offer salvation!

 

[The_Blunt_Brig]

The Council of Trent declared to the whole church about forgiveness outside of the sacrament. A Pope promulgated it!

Contrition, which holds the first place among the aforesaid acts of the penitent, is a sorrow of mind and a detestation for sin committed with the purpose of not sinning in the future.[16] This feeling of contrition was at all times necessary for obtaining the forgiveness of sins and thus indeed It prepares one who has fallen after baptism for the remission of sins, if it is united with confidence in the divine mercy and with the desire to perform the other things that are required to receive this sacrament in the proper manner. The holy council declares therefore, that this contrition implies not only an abstention from sin and the resolution and beginning of a new life, but also a hatred of the old,[17] according to the statement: <Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart and a mew spirit.>[18] And certainly he who has pondered those lamentations of the saints: <To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee;[19] have labored in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed;[20] I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul,>[21] and others of this kind, will easily understand that they issued from an overwhelming hatred of their past life and from a profound detestation of sins. The council teaches furthermore, that though it happens sometimes that this contrition is perfect through charity and reconciles man to God before this sacrament is actually received, this reconciliation, nevertheless, is not to be ascribed to the contrition itself without a desire of the sacrament, which desire is included in it. As to imperfect contrition, which is called attrition, since it commonly arises either from the consideration of the heinousness of sin or from the fear of hell and of punishment, the council declares that if it renounces the desire to sin and hopes for pardon, it not only does not make one a hypocrite and a greater sinner, but is even a gift of God and an impulse of the Holy Ghost, not indeed as already dwelling in the penitent, but only moving him, with which assistance the penitent prepares a way for himself unto justice.

And though without the sacrament of penance it cannot per se lead the sinner to justification, it does, however, dispose him to obtain the grace of God in the sacrament of penance. For, struck salutarily by this fear, the Ninivites, moved by the dreadful preaching of Jonas, did penance and obtained mercy from the Lord.[22] Falsely therefore do some accuse Catholic writers, as if they maintain that the sacrament of penance confers grace without any pious exertion on the part of those receiving it, something that the Church of God has never taught or ever accepted. Falsely also do they assert that contrition is extorted and forced, and not free and voluntary.

 

[Glacies]

According to the Sacred Council of Trent (1545-1563) extrasacramental justification is provided by perfect contrition when it is associated with the desire to receive the Sacrament of Penance. Perfect contrition consists of loving God for His Own sake above all things.

D 898:

The Council teaches, furthermore, that though it sometimes happens that this contrition is perfect because of charity and reconciles man to God, before this sacrament is actually received, this reconciliation nevertheless must not be ascribed to the contrition itself without the desire of the sacrament which is included in it.

 

[wxornot]

We do not know, we must trust in the fact that God wants us in heaven and that he is perfectly merciful; however, we cannot presume that he will not be perfectly just.

We do know. The CCC tells us we are forgiven. The post before yours explains it well.