Went to confession today

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Hello all,

I went to confession today just a few minutes ago with a priest from my parish. I love his homilies because they are tough and he always wants to challenge you. He is definitely a tough priest and mostly talks about sin, which I have found helpful in my spiritual life.

I went to confession with him today, and no other priest has ever humbled me as much as he has. It stung. It hurt, and I couldn’t even pray after confession because my heart was heavy. but I discovered that it was necessary. Its one thing to admit your sins to someone, but its a whole different thing to have someone illuminate them for you. Its very humbling. “No more of this self righteous stuff.” wow

It also made me realize that if I am still thinking about this afterwords, it probably means I have a fragile ego. I am a sensitive person in general, but I realized that if I have a fragile ego, then it deserves to be broken.

I go to confession once every two weeks and sometimes once a week. It is easy at my university because there is daily confession. I did that all last year, and the priests only sometimes responded to anything I said. It makes me wonder what would happen if I went to this priest every week. I think I would be more humble.

Also, the priest illustrated something for me that is important. He told me that there is a difference between believing in Christ and KNOWING Christ. Strive to KNOW Him, and not just believe in him. “You can write a dissertation on a mango, but don’t really know what a mango is until you taste one.” Its the same with Christ.
 
You are blessed. Many hope for a good spiritual director. You have found one.
 
I’m too sensitive for a blunt confession like that; I’m very glad it’s just what you needed. Would you consider him as.a spiritual advisor?
 
It wasn’t because I was blunt, the priest is just like that. I am also sensitive. I think he just expected me to take it and move on, he was happy at the end of the confession. He is not my spiritual advisor, however I do need to get one.
 
I believe my best confessions have been those that result in my thinking about them later. This usually causes me to reflect a bit more on the sin in question, and often I find a related fault or “hidden sin” when I take the time to reflect. This in turn leads to better examination of conscience in the future and better confessions.

I have experience being humbled due to my confession, as well as having a deep sense of God’s presence and healing. Sometimes that healing is painful, a fact that folks can forget. It is like having a surgery of the soul I guess. We go to surgery and are unaware of its total impact until we wake up. Ouch! Then there is rehab. Some more pain.

But in the end we regain our health, or at least are on our way to better health. This can be applied not just to physical healing, but to spiritual as well. (imo)
 
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