How long have you remained in a state of grace?

[Michie]

Was the message that people in mortal sin don't go to confession? I'm confused.

I was told, when I thought I was in mortal sin, that I wasn't because I was there, at Confession. If I had been in mirtal sin I would not have been at Confession. And that venial sins are dealt with in Mass

 

[anjelica]

I was a bit fed up in Lent because I kept being told I was not in sin, so when the Penitential Service came around, I weas REALLY fed up, becayse I wanted to be a sinner like everyone else! That is absolutely true.

 

[anjelica]

Yes Michie, that was the message - because mirtal sin by uts very nature cuts you totally off from God so you would not be going to Confession. Mi was confused too. They seemed very lax to me

 

[Michie]

That is so strange! I have never heard of that until now!

Yes Michie, that was the message - because mirtal sin by uts very nature cuts you totally off from God so you would not be going to Confession. Mi was confused too. They seemed very lax to me

 

[Stabat Mater dolorosa]

Yes Michie, that was the message - because mirtal sin by uts very nature cuts you totally off from God so you would not be going to Confession. Mi was confused too. They seemed very lax to me

This isn't correct.
The Holy Spirit makes us go to confession to be reconciled with God through the sacrament.

The Holy Spirit doesn't abandon you just because you're in mortal sin.

 

[anjelica]

I hadn't either Muchie. I was so sure I was in mortal sin.

 

[Cos-play]

Called it. Woooo!

You're understanding of Catholicism is amazing.

 

[Michie]

I hadn't either Muchie. I was so sure I was in mortal sin.

If people in mortal sin never went to confession.... I can't even wrap my head around it!

 

[anjelica]

None of it made sense to me. I ended up very confused indeed. But anyway, I confessed the sin and received Absolution

 

[Michie]

None of it made sense to me. I ended up very confused indeed. But anyway, I confessed the sin and received Absolution

Good! I have found that confession at times can leave to a bit more befuddled than before you went to confession with some priests.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

You're lack of understand of Catholicism never ceases to amaze me.

I don't lack of understand Catholicism.

 

[anjelica]

All our priests are very lax concerning Confession. The priest at my parish Church told me that he only listens to certain Confessions and the others he doesn't bother lustening to properly. I do not go to him and have left that Church for another one now.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

All our priests are very lax concerning Confession. The priest at my parish Church told me that he only listens to certain Confessions and the others he doesn't bother lustening to properly. I do not go to him and have left that Church for another one now.

That's so messed up.

 

[anjelica]

I know Mikhael. The priest where I now go will, I am sure, be dufferent

 

[Michie]

All our priests are very lax concerning Confession. The priest at my parish Church told me that he only listens to certain Confessions and the others he doesn't bother lustening to properly. I do not go to him and have left that Church for another one now.

Umm... That is really scary in my opinion. When priests are apathetic then there is no wonder the communion lines are short.

 

[Cos-play]

Wow. I'm so sorry Charlie.

Not quite clear, for what are you sorry ?

 

[anjelica]

Our Communion lines are very very long. Sometimes 500 at one Mass. But just as there w as very little reverence for Confession, so there was little reverence for the Body of Christ. When I was sick with cancer, the priest dropped the Host on the floor. Also he would only stay around five minutes, and make me tal k while I still had the Host in my mouth. I was so desperately upset at the time. Mi was never offered Confession either

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Even if a priest thinks a sin is inconsequential, he should listen to it properly if it is weighing heavily enough on the heart of the person confessing.

Martin Luther says it well:

What sins should we confess?

Before God we should plead guilty of all sins, even of those which we do not know, as we do in the Lord's Prayer. But before the confessor we should confess those sins alone which we know and feel in our hearts.

 

[Michie]

Not quite clear, for what are you sorry ?

It's my understanding that you cannot be punished for secular political beliefs. Especially civil rights. You were not campaigning for the Church to get behind performing ceremonies. It is my understanding there is a difference. I thought we were to stand up for the civil rights of all people. Believer or not. But I don't know the whole story. But it sounds bad and if it was as bad as you say, I'm sorry it happened.

 

[anjelica]

I am with a better priest now