True Remorse for your sins?

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After confession, do you feel genuine Remorse , ?

Plus What do you do if you are forgiven for your sins.
But find it difficult to Forgive yourself ?
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
After confession, do you feel genuine Remorse , ?

Plus What do you do if you are forgiven for your sins.
But find it difficult to Forgive yourself ?
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I usually feel remorse before confession. Afterward, I feel relief.

As to it being “genuine”, I’m pretty sure my remorse or contrition is almost always imperfect. I still have some attachment to sin, even though I wish I did not.

It is enough to know that God has forgiven me. The idea of forgiving myself might be helpful if it causes me to further amend my life and to make right any wrongs I have done, but not just to burden myself with useless guilt. If it is a problem for you, maybe your priest can offer some helpful advice.
 
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I usually feel remorse before confession. Afterward, I feel relief.
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This describes me as well, although I would say I feel remorse before and during. “Genuine”? Only God knows if it’s genuine, regardless of how I feel about the matter. I leave these things to His mercy.

I’ve struggled with forgiving myself after having committed certain sins. Using my time to serve others doesn’t give me the opportunity to dwell on it, however. Still, if something I’ve confessed were to keep bothering me long after I’ve received absolution, I’d speak with my spiritual director about it.
 
Feelings can be deceptive. You’ve acknowledged your sinfulness and demonstrated your faith that through confession God will and has forgiven you. You have an idea of the pain Christ suffered to pay the price for your sins. I think it is beyond our powers of comprehension to fully realize the suffering our Lord went through and so our remorse will not be perfect either. God knows this. He created us. I would spend time thinking of His passion suffering and wounds and the pain his mother must of went through watching what was done to him and ask her to help you with opening your heart and mind to be able to share in that pain mentally and spiritually.
 
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Plus What do you do if you are forgiven for your sins.
But find it difficult to Forgive yourself ?
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I would keep in mind that this can be a sort of pride: *how on earth could someone like ME commit THAT sin?! * Such pride can be used as a means of temptation, and it should be surrendered to Christ and His Mercy.
 
I share this quote from Blaise Pascal:
Someone told me one day that he felt full of joy and confidence when he had been to confession. Someone else told me that he was still afraid. My reaction was that one good man could be made by putting these two together, for each of them lacked something in not sharing the feelings of the other. - Pensee 712 or 530
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i would like to think that one of the main reasons we engage in the sacrament is because we feel remorse, generally, right after I sin, I feel a great deal of discomfort in both the act and in the way in which I stand with God, it is my honest belief that God creates that feeling, he simply cuts us off but it isn’t one forever he allows me to cling , cling to his goodness and pray for this ugliness,

which is why i often have learned much by sin, we shouldnt sin to learn though just ike we according to the book of Romans shouldnt’t sin for more grace to abound, its never ok to sin,

feelings prior to actual confession vary, but I pray very hard prior to entering the confessional and when I do confess I make it a narrative completely from the hear,t i have done a list confession in the past, but I ffeel that if you tell it liek a narrative you can even come to tears within the confessional, and your dialogue is very humanistic with the confessor,

Question: If you sat beside Jesus and he allowed you to tell him all your wrong doing, wouldnt you tel lhim everything? thats how I like to be, make it personal, and no holds bar
 
I still feel a deep remorse for the sins I already confessed. This keeps me humble and helps protect me from falling back into sin.
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
After confession, do you feel genuine Remorse , ?

Plus What do you do if you are forgiven for your sins.
But find it difficult to Forgive yourself ?
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No. I feel at peace. I usually do not think of them after that. Sometimes they bother me, if I hurt someone I care about. Some of my past sins still embarrass me. I wonder why did I say or do that. I am beginning to let that all go.
 
I struggle with this too, I find myself asking if Im TRULY sorry for the sin, because I dont want to offend God, or if Im more concerned about ending up in Hell, big difference imo.
 
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