What to do when you swear out of anger after you’ve calmed down

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“Promises” to God carry no weight if fulfilling them means committing a sin.

In general I’d steer clear of oaths and the like, although I understand this seems to have been in a bout of anger anyway.
 
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It’s very easy to be calm and chill when nothing much is going on to bother you. It’s when things get crazy that our actions show who we are.

And it’s fine: you sound like a sensitive young woman, and that is good.

But! you acted badly in your anger. The anger may (or may not) have been appropriate considering what was happening, but beating on your brother, swearing to so so, using God’s Name in vain, were bad things to do!

So you can learn a lot about yourself from this event, and you can learn how God would prefer that you behave in the future when something like this happens.

And this is one of the ways we grow in holiness.
 
There have been plenty of occasions where I could of got angry but kept my cool he kept pushing and pushing and prodding and then he said something that really set me off honestly if he hadn’t of said it I wouldn’t of gotten so angry but I did apologise after and he gave me a hug and apologised to me also
 
The temptation to anger is always there. What I try to do is practice humility.
‘The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.’ - The Imitation of Christ
 
I wish I could be like that all the time I can generally keep calm but there are certain things that I try to forget I don’t like people bringing them up and that’s what my brother did but we’re friends again and the argument is over he brought me some Turkish delights and were up in my room watching the hunger games as we speak
 
You did the right thing afterwards. Brothers can be a real mess, I know. It sounds like he might frequently do this sort of thing? Maybe he feels like as you’ve gotten older, he’s not as much a part of your life as he used to be? This was a huge complaint of my younger children regarding the older ones.
 
As to your original question, I would just confess it as a venial sin, so you will also have apologized to God.
 
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