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Onthisrock84
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So say I am in a state of mortal sin and acknowledge it. I am going to confess my sins to a priest and en route die in an accident. Am I just going to be sent to hell?
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Brendan_64
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That is up to God to decide, He alone knows your heart and your intentions. Ultimately we all are subject to His mercy and His judgement.
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Fauken
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Probably not. God would presumably forgive them because you fully intend to go to confession and would have gone and made a good one had you lived.
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MCH1
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I honestly do not know, however you will avoid hell if you make an act of perfect contrition.
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PJH_74
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You might be over thinking this one… The chances are probably as good as you winning the lottery. I’m serious, the chance of you winning is some factors less than you dying on the way to buy a ticket.
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thistle
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Only God would know the state of your soul at death.So say I am in a state of mortal sin and acknowledge it. I am going to confess my sins to a priest and en route die in an accident. Am I just going to be sent to hell?
However, objectively, if you died on the way to Confession without having made an act of perfect contrition then yes you would go to Hell.
The Church teaches that making an act of perfect contrition with the firm intent to get to Confession as soon as possible would mean your sins would be forgiven and you would be saved if you died on the way to Confession.
On the other hand if you only made an act of imperfect contrition you would not be saved if you died on the way to Confession.
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Wesrock
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This is not the set of responses I would have expected.
God knows you were on your way to confession when it occurred. He knows that when he makes his judgment.
I would still recommend making an act of contrition once you intend to go to confession, but these responses that are basically “yup, you go to hell” are off base. The sacraments are for our sake. God is not bound to act only during the sacraments.
God knows you were on your way to confession when it occurred. He knows that when he makes his judgment.
I would still recommend making an act of contrition once you intend to go to confession, but these responses that are basically “yup, you go to hell” are off base. The sacraments are for our sake. God is not bound to act only during the sacraments.
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Eddie18
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If you had made a successful act of perfect contrition before the accident, then you would go to purgatory (for any sins not atoned for). Otherwise you would be damned. Our souls need to be in the state of grace when we die, no exceptions.
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Genesis315
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God is not playing a game of gotcha–He desires our salvation. He is also omnipotent. Based on that, in my opinion, if you are in the state of mortal sin and are repentant and making your reasonably best effort to confess it, either God will make sure you make it to confession or, if you die beforehand, it means you didn’t need it (ie the sin was not actually mortal or you had perfect contrition).
You can also look at it this way: Jesus says if we ask for something, we will receive it. This is understood to mean if the thing asked for is conducive to our salvation. If you are in mortal sin, are contrite, and you pray to make it to confession and, again, make a reasonable effort of getting there, God will infallibly ensure you make it.
You can also look at it this way: Jesus says if we ask for something, we will receive it. This is understood to mean if the thing asked for is conducive to our salvation. If you are in mortal sin, are contrite, and you pray to make it to confession and, again, make a reasonable effort of getting there, God will infallibly ensure you make it.
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Eddie18
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That’s not what the catechism teaches. We must be in the state of grace to be saved, and that can only be achieved in 2 ways: the Sacrament of Penance, or an act of perfect contrition.
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Genesis315
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Sorry, I’m not following. What did I say that contradicted that?
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Eddie18
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The Church doesn’t teach that God will make sure we make it to confession, and if we die before hand it means that we didn’t need it.
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Hereiam
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The third way is through the mercy of God…when we take the power of God’s mercy out of the equation, we are guilty of that one sin that cannot be forgiven, which through non-belief in the power of God is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.That’s not what the catechism teaches. We must be in the state of grace to be saved, and that can only be achieved in 2 ways:
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Onthisrock84
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So what your saying is God doesn’t know what is in our hearts? That’s unfortunate. I wonder how many people are suffering eternal suffering simply because they didn’t have the opportunity to go to confession or planned on it and may have said rosary after rosary but died before they got to go to confession.
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ElizabethAnn
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Hell no!
He knows where you were traveling to and what’s in your heart.
He is a loving and merciful King.
He knows where you were traveling to and what’s in your heart.
He is a loving and merciful King.
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Ron_Conte
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If you made an act of perfect contrition, prior to death, then you were returned to the state of grace by that act, despite not being able to get to confession before death. All who die in the state of grace will have eternal life in Heaven (perhaps after a short or long stay in Purgatory).
If you had only imperfect contrition, then dying before confession (or before the anointing of the sick) would mean you died in a state of actual mortal sin. Everyone who dies in the state of actual mortal sin (and therefore without the state of grace) is sent to Hell.
If you had only imperfect contrition, then dying before confession (or before the anointing of the sick) would mean you died in a state of actual mortal sin. Everyone who dies in the state of actual mortal sin (and therefore without the state of grace) is sent to Hell.
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lmelahn
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Probably not. The fact that you had the intention of going to confession is a sign that you probably already had perfect contrition.So say I am in a state of mortal sin and acknowledge it. I am going to confess my sins to a priest and en route die in an accident. Am I just going to be sent to hell?
It is ultimately up to God, but it seems fitting that He would provide the grace necessary for you to repent out of love for Him, if He knew that you were about to die.
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Genesis315
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As I said, repentance is a condition. Obviously what I said does not apply to the impenitent. The Roman Catechism (Catechism of Trent) says the same thing as I did–God grants us what we need for our salvation when we ask it and, if we are not granted it, it means it wasn’t conducive to our salvation:
Roman Catechism (Chapter on the Fourth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer):
What the Catechism teaches is proven from Scripture.
Our Lord promises to give us whatever we ask for:
Roman Catechism (Chapter on the Fourth Petition of the Lord’s Prayer):
Obviously, for a contrite person in mortal sin, getting to confession safely is conducive to his salvation! If God does not grant it, as the Roman Catechism says, then it is proof it was not needed (again, this assumes contrition).For God will either grant what is asked, and thus they will obtain their wishes; or He will not grant it, and that will be a most certain proof that what is denied the good by Him is not conducive either to their interest or their salvation, since He is more desirous of their eternal welfare than they themselves.
What the Catechism teaches is proven from Scripture.
Our Lord promises to give us whatever we ask for:
And again:Luke 11:[9] And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. [10] For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. [11] And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? [12] Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? [13] If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?
John 14:13…whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do
Secondly, He also desires all to be saved (see also 1: Tim 2:4):John 16:23…Amen, amen I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you. [24] Hitherto you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.
Therefore, God grants us anything we ask for if it is conducive to our salvation. As I said before, a contrite person on their way to confession is seeking sanctifying grace itself, therefore getting there safely and being absolved is always conducive to their salvation and the Lord promises that the person will find what He seeks.Matt. 18:[11] For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. [12] What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray? [13] And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. [14] Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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redbaron162
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We know that there is such a thing as a Baptism of Desire. Aka you went through RCIA and its the day of your baptism and you have every intention of being baptized and are on the way to go do it and get hit by a car and died…oops didn’t make it I guess your going to hell. Obviously that would be absurd and the Church doesn’t teach that.
Same thing with confession. You are repentant of your sin and one the way to go confess it and die accidently…what sane God would say oops sorry if only you got killed after instead of before. God is a perfect God and just judge you will be fine.
Consider many parish’s don’t offer confession everyday. Many are just once a week and can get cancelled sometimes. God knows if you were repentant and what your intentions are (assuming of course they were your real intentions, there will be no fooling God)
Same thing with confession. You are repentant of your sin and one the way to go confess it and die accidently…what sane God would say oops sorry if only you got killed after instead of before. God is a perfect God and just judge you will be fine.
Consider many parish’s don’t offer confession everyday. Many are just once a week and can get cancelled sometimes. God knows if you were repentant and what your intentions are (assuming of course they were your real intentions, there will be no fooling God)
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Eddie18
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If mortal sin exists on the soul, the catechism says hell is the result. There are no exceptions to this…
The Catechism Explained (Spirago, 1899), the Particular Judgment:
“The Church has defined that those who have not sinned after Baptism, and those who having sinned after Baptism, have expiated those sins on earth or in purgatory, are received at once into heaven; while those who die in mortal sin descend at once to hell (Council of Lyons, ii., 1274).”
The Catechism Explained (Spirago, 1899), the Particular Judgment:
“The Church has defined that those who have not sinned after Baptism, and those who having sinned after Baptism, have expiated those sins on earth or in purgatory, are received at once into heaven; while those who die in mortal sin descend at once to hell (Council of Lyons, ii., 1274).”
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