Reconciliation question

[mommamaree]

Just back home again. Started at 9:30 and didn’t get out till 2pm! Of course we spent a lot of time just talking. Fr. can really talk . Nearly chickened out about some of the stuff but sucked it up and said it all. Of course after I was done and we were talking about other things, I’d suddenly remember something. A couple of times… I feel clean inside. A burden has been lifted. Father says that once we have proof of my dh’s baptism that we can get our marriage convalidated. Just waiting for the minister who baptized him to send back the paper stating that fact. Things are coming together. Thanks for all your encouragement.

Oh, goodness, I am sorry for adding my responses on something that you have already completed. How stupid of me for not reading through the whole thread first. Please forgive me for my haste. I am so glad that you had such a freeing experience. God is so good, and being able to receive counsel from a priest is so wonderful.

 

[crazzeto]

I am making arrangements to do my first reconciliation in over 40 years. I have a laundry list of sins to confess. However I have a question. If I committed a sin that I didn’t actually know was a sin, need I confess it since it wasn’t done “willfully” with full knowledge?

Yes, you do… That’s the Holy Spirit convicting you of that sin… Now it does lessen the sin, but you should still confess it.

 

[crazzeto]

Welcome Home

 

[jmcrae]

When I take my daughter tomorrow for her lesson I’ll be making an appointment for next week for reconciliation. I keep going over in my mind actually telling my sin, and it makes me actually sick thinking about it. I know I won’t be able to look Father in the face after that. That’s what i’m afraid of.

Be comforted. The priest I go to Confession for month after month doesn’t even recognize me when I say “Hello” to him outside the Confessional - he forgets everything he was ever told in there, and everyone he has ever met in there.

 

[LindaSK]

Just back home again. Started at 9:30 and didn’t get out till 2pm! Of course we spent a lot of time just talking. Fr. can really talk . Nearly chickened out about some of the stuff but sucked it up and said it all. Of course after I was done and we were talking about other things, I’d suddenly remember something. A couple of times… I feel clean inside. A burden has been lifted. Father says that once we have proof of my dh’s baptism that we can get our marriage convalidated. Just waiting for the minister who baptized him to send back the paper stating that fact. Things are coming together. Thanks for all your encouragement.

Fantastic!!! Feel a little lighter?? Isn’t hearing the words of absolution wonderful!?! God will see you through the rest, too. I will continue to keep you in my prayers.

God bless,
Linda

 

[Brywan]

Just back home again. Started at 9:30 and didn’t get out till 2pm! Of course we spent a lot of time just talking. Fr. can really talk . Nearly chickened out about some of the stuff but sucked it up and said it all. Of course after I was done and we were talking about other things, I’d suddenly remember something. A couple of times… I feel clean inside. A burden has been lifted. Father says that once we have proof of my dh’s baptism that we can get our marriage convalidated. Just waiting for the minister who baptized him to send back the paper stating that fact. Things are coming together. Thanks for all your encouragement.

Hallelujah!!!

 

[Alexandra]

Oh, goodness, I am sorry for adding my responses on something that you have already completed. How stupid of me for not reading through the whole thread first. Please forgive me for my haste. I am so glad that you had such a freeing experience. God is so good, and being able to receive counsel from a priest is so wonderful.

I’m guilty of that as well. Don’t worry about it. As it was I forgot to mention the bipolar. Oh well. My mind is just “unburdened” now. Not so much static inside my head. Good feeling.