SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION vs MORTAL SIN OF SACRILEGE

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Good Day to my beloved Brothers and Sisters. Pax Tecum!

I would like to hear an opinion from each of you Regards to this matter:

Let say there’s a Guy who is a Certified Traditionalist but he keeps falling from his Mortal Sin of Impurity (Shortcut words: Mas******, Por*, S**, etc) and then he go to Confession for that day, and all of his sins is forgiven. After 2 or 3 days, he fall from his Sins again, and then he came back to confession and forgive again and so and so forth, but his priest remind him that if he continue to fall from sin again it will be a Mortal sin of Sacrilege… and he fall again and again.

Now, my question is:
  1. If he commits the Mortal Sin of Sacrilege of Penance, what should he do now to repay all of his Sins against the Sacrament of Penance?
  2. How can he control his self against Impurity?
  3. What if he confess his sins all over again and again and he is so shy to go back to confession, does he need a Concealing or Psychological Test?
  4. Or he needs to ask for help to a Priest regards to his situation?
Thank you so much for your Wonderful suggestion!

PAX VOBISCUM!
 
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How does sacrilege take place here? Lots of people commit and confess the same sins. They may have contrition and repentance, but they fall again. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His mercy endures forever.
 
Falling into mortal sin after sincere repentance and purpose of amendment (a firm resolution to strive to avoid the sin) is not sacrilege. It is sacrilege to confess those mortal sins without repentance.

If this is based on a real scenario, I’m guessing the priest probably meant that it is sacrilege to confess without the intention of turning away from those sins.
 
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If he commits the Mortal Sin of Sacrilege of Penance, what should he do now to repay all of his Sins against the Sacrament of Penance?
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Repent and confess those sins along with the ones that he confessed in the sacrilegious (invalid) confession. But as mentioned I’m not sure there was any sacrilege involved in this case.
 
My opinion is the guy needs to do what his priest tells him to do and quit falling off the wagon every 2-3 days.

if he’s having this much trouble, he may want to talk to a priest outside of the confessional in order to get guidance on breaking his bad habit or maybe be referred to some kind of counselor or support group.
 
If he’s falling that much I would wonder if he’s suffering some sort of addiction, at which point questions of culpability must be raised. If he’s just thinking ‘I’ll just go back to confession’ there’s probably need for further catechisis (which again may diminish culpability). Exhaust the charitable possibilities first.
 
  1. You don’t need to censor “masturbation, porn and sex.” Those are technical terms, not obscenities or curse words…
  2. Find a new confessor. Any priest who fails to be merciful to the reality of you being a fallen sinful human creature who is prone to sin, and tells you continuing to sin is somehow sacrilege (it’s not, especially when you’re combatting that sin) is a horrible confessor.
  3. When I came back to the Church in 2014, I had to go to confession every day, 6 days a week (no confession on Sunday) for about 4 months straight to overcome the sin of porn and masturbation. Eventually one of the priests told me to just come once or twice a week. With time and grace I overcame those sins…
I shot heroin for over a decade. Porn and masturbation were psychologically more difficult to overcome than IV heroin. I swear to God with my hand on a Bible - the psychological pull to porn was stronger than the pull to heroin for me. Some people don’t seem to grasp the INTENSE addiction that repeated exposure to porn while masturbating causes. It takes heroic virtue and abundant grace to overcome.
 
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@TraditionalCatholic What I tell every person who confesses these sins to me (and it typically comes up about every time I hear confessions ) is this: as often as it happens, as many times as it happens kepp xoming back to the sacrament of penance and the Eucharist. Penance isn’t simply about saying sorry to God - He already knows - it’s about conversion and that comes about not by our own efforts but through the grace which we receive in the sacrament. As @AngelusDomini has rightly noted, the level of culpability for sin is less for a person who labours under an addiction and so I’d agree with @ChristMyLife - if your current confessor doesn’t grasp this, find one who does.
 
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If he’s falling that much I would wonder if he’s suffering some sort of addiction, at which point questions of culpability must be raised. If he’s just thinking ‘I’ll just go back to confession’ there’s probably need for further catechisis (which again may diminish culpability). Exhaust the charitable possibilities first.
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i would wonder too, but the thing is, the priest is the one who’s there, hearing him several times, and maybe understands all the facts of the situation better than strangers on the Internet.

I am really hesitant to second-guess someone’s regular confessor. I also don’t buy the fact that everybody who falls off with sins of lust has an “addiction” and can’t stop. Maybe this priest laid down the law trying to put the fear of God into the guy to get him to stop. This approach does work with some people who are not taking the sin all that seriously.
 
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If there is something which reduces the voluntarism of the act, then the sin is venial or not an actual sin.

In the priest gives absolution then there is no problem. However if the priest does not then he thinks there is a problem with proper disposition. Baltimore Catechism:
Q. 755. What kind of sorrow should we have for our sins?
A. The sorrow we should have for our sins should be interior, supernatural, universal, and sovereign.
Q. 756. What do you mean by saying that our sorrow should be interior?
A. When I say that our sorrow should be interior, I mean that it should come from the heart, and not merely from the lips.
Q. 757. What do you mean by saying that our sorrow should be supernatural?
A. When I say that our sorrow should be supernatural, I mean that it should be prompted by the grace of God, and excited by motives which spring from faith, and not by merely natural motives.
Q. 758. What do we mean by “motives that spring from faith” and by “merely natural motives” with regard to sorrow for sin?
A. By sorrow for sin from “motives that spring from faith,” we mean sorrow for reasons that God has made known to us, such as the loss of heaven, the fear of hell or purgatory, or the dread of afflictions that come from God in punishment for sin. By “merely natural motives” we mean sorrow for reasons made known to us by our own experience or by the experience of others, such as loss of character, goods or health. A motive is whatever moves our will to do or avoid anything.
Q. 759. What do you mean by saying that our sorrow should be universal?
A. When I say that our sorrow should be universal, I mean that we should be sorry for all our mortal sins without exception.
Q. 774. How many kinds of occasions of sin are there?
A. There are four kinds of occasions of sin:
1. Near occasions, through which we always fall;
2. Remote occasions, through which we sometimes fall;
3. Voluntary occasions or those we can avoid; and
4. Involuntary occasions or those we cannot avoid.
A person who lives in a near and voluntary occasion of sin need not expect forgiveness while he continues in that state.
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