Friend, you are suffering from an addiction and need to seek psychological help to deal with it. Also, you may want to consider fortifying your WILL, and by making a sincere repentence. If you continue to fall, even with hours, you are NOT serious about the Confession, and some priests may withhold absolution (they can it is their right according to their prudence, and Canon Law).
I would love you to post for me one quotation from Church documents that says frequent confession reveals that a soul is not serious about it. We can all remember not too long ago that you yourself had a close call with impurity. Think back to how you felt then. You would be better to think on this than looking for the splinter in your sisters eye.
Hang in there Shameless. The fact that you see the need to return to confession is the Lord not letting go. Don’t ever ignore that out of loss of hope. Have you given thought to working with one priest and telling him how severe the addiction is? Believe me, you will lose the “idiot” feeling when you can find someone to go to.
St Josemaria answered very simply "Just imagine what you would be without these things"What in the name of God are you thinking Misericordie with sentences like this??? This is so judgemental and extremely unfair to a soul in need. Thank God she has the grace to know she need Confession when so many cast it aside as unnecessary.
**If you continue to fall, even with hours, you are NOT serious about the Confession, **
Oh boy… this is exactly the kind of misinformation that helps no one.
I don’t know where you get them from Mis, but certainly you have some gems.
I will remind you what St Josemaria Escriva said about frequent Confession. A soul came to him in despair and said ]"Father, look at me! I go to Mass regular I go to Confession regular and I am making no progress. I am the same through and through. They seem to be having no effect"
Ok, everything I said, just substitute “gal” for “guy” and vice versa.
If you’ve been struggling with these same sins this long, it may be useful to look at these as bad habits as well as sins, and use techniques helpful in breaking bad habits as an aid in conquering these. One thing very useful in breaking any bad habit is to try to replace it with a good habit. You can choose some good habit you would like to cultivate and make a conscious effort to do this instead of your habitual sins whenever you feel the urge for these sins coming on, and keep this up until the urge passes. If you do fall and sin anyway, first, express your sorrow to God with the intention of receiving Sacramental Reconciliation as soon as possible, then immediately perform your “good habit”. Your good habit can be any physical, intellectual or spiritual good quality you would like to cultivate in yourself. I once read that St Jerome, being troubled with lustful thoughts, resolved to study hebrew when tempted in this manner; he eventually went on to translate the hebrew Scriptures into latin. In time, with God’s help, you too may be able to replace your sinful habit with a good one (and make you too a saint in the process.)