Remembering Sins During Absolution

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During Absolution, I remembered a sin and waited for the priest to finish. I told him I had something else but he just told me not to worry about it, and since I’m, scrupulous I asked him if he was sure and he said yes. I was wondering if my Confession is valid since I witheld a sin during Absolution (although I intended say it right after) but my priest just told me not to worry about it?

Not only that, but I’m unsure as to wether the sin I witheld was mortal or not ( I planned on Confessing that I didn’t mention to my younger siblings that not doing a Penance on Fridays might be a sin soon enough-which I’m not even sure if it’s a sin…I feared I might put their souls in some kind of danger or something similar like that:confused: )
 
First and foremost, for you as a scrupulous person, it is always right to obey your priest.

Secondly, the responsibility for the souls of your younger siblings rests with your parents. It is good that you wish to help them, but it is not incumbent upon you to tell them what they must do.

You can relax and go to Communion tomorrow.

Betsy
 
If you’re unsure something is a mortal sin, then it is not. You have to KNOW that it is a mortal sin, and you go ahead and do it anyway, under your own free will.

Obey your priest, O scrupulous one!🙂 (From one who battles this herself, of course).
 
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Not only that, but I’m unsure as to wether the sin I witheld was mortal or not ( I planned on Confessing that I didn’t mention to my younger siblings that not doing a Penance on Fridays might be a sin soon enough-which I’m not even sure if it’s a sin…I feared I might put their souls in some kind of danger or something similar like that:confused: )
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Don’t needlessly beat yourself up. If the priest said it was OK, I would go with that. I have never heard that ‘Doing a penance on Friday’ was a sin. Where ever did you hear that?
 
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I read it here, but I don’t really know if it’s true or not:confused:

secondexodus.com/html/catholicdefinitions/fridayabstinence.htm
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Well, if you don’t know it’s true, you don’t have full knowledge required to commit a mortal sin, do you?

Also, with all due respect to “Marty” and his nice website, Marty is not the Magisterium. He says failure to do penance on Friday “can” be a mortal sin. Not “is,” but “can.” So even if he were an authoritative source (which he is not), the statement is ambiguous and open to interpretation. You do not have an obligation to teach anyone based on an ambiguous pronouncement such as this.

And, as I said before, it is up to your parents to teach your younger siblings. How old are they, by the way?

Betsy
 
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During Absolution, I remembered a sin and waited for the priest to finish. I told him I had something else but he just told me not to worry about it
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The reason he told you not to worry about it is because he had already absolved you of all your sins, so even if you had another sin to confess – which I do not believe you did in this case – you’d already be covered.

By definition, if you can’t think of something, you cannot tell someone else about it. Luckily, the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows you are sorry for all your sins, whether you can bring them to mind right now or not. So He makes absolution work even when we forget to fess up to something.
Not only that, but I’m unsure as to wether the sin I witheld was mortal or not ( I planned on Confessing that I didn’t mention to my younger siblings that not doing a Penance on Fridays might be a sin soon enough-which I’m not even sure if it’s a sin…I feared I might put their souls in some kind of danger or something similar like that:confused: )
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I don’t think that was even an itty-bitty-teensy-tiny sin, let alone mortal! Unless you said it in order to make your sibling feel bad, in which case it might rise to the level of a minor sin. Otherwise, assuming that Marty were correct, it would only rise to the level of being mistaken.

As to Marty and his website.

ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

With “friend’s” like him, the faithful have very little need of the evil one.

First, the bishops “URGE” us to follow certain norms. That’s URGE, not ORDER, or DIRECT. “We think it would be really good for your souls if you were to do the following…”

Second, Vatican II did indeed seek to “give the spirit of penance greater vitality.” But Marty does not seem to have any idea what that means.

VITALITY means “The capacity to live, grow, or develop”

What the Church wants is for us to grow in our love of Jesus Christ and, out of our living, growing, developing love for Him, to adopt a spirit of penitence.

See the sequence?

FIRST: We are to seek to love Him more,

SECOND: A natural consequence of loving Him more is the DESIRE to do penance for those times when we fail to respond to His love as we should.

Marty, on the other hand, looks to me a bit like a Pharisee.

augie
 
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