To love confession?

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Is it alright to love going to confession?
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Considering that it involves scrubbing away all of your sins and making you as spiritually clean as a newly baptized baby, I’d say it is quite appropriate to love going to confession. 😃

I’m not sure I “love” it, but I sure do feel relieved afterwards. 🙂
 
I kind of love confession (although I have been going more than I should). I feel better afterwards, anyway. I particularly enjoy having the opportunity to converse with the priest at length - but they do not always have time for that.
 
I feel ‘cleaner’ when i go to confession. I never bothered to go much. These days i am trying to go once a month or more if needs be!
 
I love going when I have to go however, I’d love even more to get to a point where I don’t have to go
 
I love God’s mercy.

Having gone to confession today, and then hearing today’s reading at Mass and receiving Him. I couldn’t keep it together. He is perfect. God’s mercy is so great.

Today’s reading:

To the penitent God provides a way back,
he encourages those who are losing hope
and has chosen for them the lot of truth.
Return to him and give up sin,
pray to the LORD and make your offenses few.
Turn again to the Most High and away from your sin,
hate intensely what he loathes,
and know the justice and judgments of God,
Stand firm in the way set before you,
in prayer to the Most High God.

Who in the nether world can glorify the Most High
in place of the living who offer their praise?
Dwell no longer in the error of the ungodly,
but offer your praise before death.
No more can the dead give praise
than those who have never lived;
You who are alive and well
shall praise and glorify God in his mercies.
How great the mercy of the LORD,
his forgiveness of those who return to him!

Sir 17:20-24

Thank you Jesus.
 
Yes Yes Yes! I love the Sacrament of Reconciliation because I know my sins have been wiped away and I am clean.
 
I sure hope so because I love the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I try to go every week! 🙂
 
Yes I do believe it is ok, even wonderful to love the sacrament.

I do believe it was Blessed Jacinta of Fatima who said that we should love confession and go to it with joy… I could be wrong about that though. I’ll have to somehow look that up to verify. I do remember reading a saint saying that.
 
I go to “confession” weekly and I am not suffering from scrupulosity. I’m doing it to keep the channel of “communication” between me and God as open as possible. I have discovered that IT WORKS THAT WAY and since I am totally devoted to doing God’s will, I think this sort of self examination is important. But I do have to say: I am the ONLY person that does this in the entire congregation. I’m there at 3:45 to prepare to sing the 5PM Mass and I do not see many people (sometimes none!) coming to the confessional. So now I wonder if I’m being a burden to the priest by bringing my everyday and unavoidable failures to be perfect before him. Hmmmmm, I’ve even thought of not doing it more than once a month because of this, actually. I wonder, how come I’m the only ONE doing this out of hundreds of people?
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ellzeena said:
I go to “confession” weekly and I am not suffering from scrupulosity. I’m doing it to keep the channel of “communication” between me and God as open as possible. I have discovered that IT WORKS THAT WAY and since I am totally devoted to doing God’s will, I think this sort of self examination is important. But I do have to say: I am the ONLY person that does this in the entire congregation. I’m there at 3:45 to prepare to sing the 5PM Mass and I do not see many people (sometimes none!) coming to the confessional. So now I wonder if I’m being a burden to the priest by bringing my everyday and unavoidable failures to be perfect before him. Hmmmmm, I’ve even thought of not doing it more than once a month because of this, actually. I wonder, how come I’m the only ONE doing this out of hundreds of people?
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I go to confession weekly as well. I know that as a Catholic community we are lacking severely in catechesis regarding this beautiful sacrament. Many people think that either only “holy people” go or those who commit murder. Many Catholics don’t see the need to have to confess their sins to a priest feeling that they can just confess them directly to God. (Protestant view) I teach a pre-baptism class at my parish and we discuss sin and reconciliation. These are CATHOLIC parents and soon to be sponsors. MOST have never heard of venial and mortal sin. It is absolutely amazing. I have taught over 2500 people in the last 12 years and I would say that around 85-90% are not catechized when it comes to this sacrament.

Yes, I do love confession and I show others how much I do. Those of us who do understand the beauty of this sacrament need to advise other Catholics in this matter. By our baptism we are called to evangelize and it is not an option of our faith. So, please, let others know and that will be spreading the Gospel. Jesus did not give His Church this gift to be left in the closet…teachccd 🙂
 
RCIAGraduate said:
Is it alright to love going to confession?
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Oh course it is! In this Sacrament you receive forgiveness of all your sins! 🙂 I am nervous before confession but always love it afterwards! Its the wonderful tribunal of mercy! 🙂 God bless you:thumbsup:
 
Hi there, I love Confession, I try usually to go weekly, but I missed last weekend because it is a new Priest and I get the feeling he thinks I am scrupulous. I feel so good when I go weekly. I write down my examination of conscience and take that in with me, it is quite helpful to do that and I feel like I am wiping the slate clean 😃
St Padre Pio recommended weekly Confession because then you can have plenary indulgences every day. In case you do not know the following prayer I am about to type, if read after Holy Communion and having been to Confession within the week, plus praying an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the Holy Father’s intentions, and of course being detached from sin, you can get a plenary indulgence, here is the prayer~

Prayer before a Crucifix

Look down upon me good and gentle Jesus, while before Thy face I humbly kneel and with burning soul pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, true contrition for my sins and a firm purpose of amendment, while I contemplate with great love and tender pity Thy Five Wounds, pondering over them within me and calling to mind the words which David Thy prophet said of Thee my Jesus, “They have pierced My hands and My Feet, they have numbered all My Bones.” (Ps 21:17-18)

Don’t forget the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the Holy Father 🙂

God bless
 
Just had to post this prayer too, if said after Holy Communion and the conditions of a plenary indulgence are met you can receive a plenary indulgence for the hour of your death

“Eternal Father from this day forward I accept with a joyful and resigned heart the death it will please you to send me with all its pains and sufferings.”

Dont forget the prayer for the Holy Father and detachment to sin.
 
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