Undoing a "bad" confession

[RileyG]

Hi
How do I "undo" a bad confessions that wasn't valid on my part? Ie. I knowingly held back mortal sins. Since December '08 I haven't held anything back...
Am I still absolved or no? Please help.
I have not given a "bad" confession in about five years or so.

 

[Rhamiel]

confess to having a bad confession

 

[RileyG]

confess to having a bad confession

That's it? Thankfully, I've already done that.
Thanks. That's a huge relief.

 

[WisdomTree]

That's it? Thankfully, I've already done that.
Thanks. That's a huge relief.

No need to think too legalistic about this. So long as you're willing to admit your failure, God will forgive all sins. That I'm pretty sure is Catholic dogma. What you did can be categorized under the ninth commandment (eight in Augustinian system), since you essentially lied.

 

[Rhamiel]

here are sins that carry an automatic excommunication, to be readmitted into the Church you have confess to a Bishop
but all other sins you can just go to confession for
an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic;[6]
a person who throws away the consecrated Eucharistic species or takes and retains them for a sacrilegious purpose;[7]
a person who uses physical force against the Pope;[8]
a priest who uses confession as a pretext to solicit the penitent to break the commandment against adultery;[9]
a bishop who ordains someone a bishop without a papal mandate, and the person who receives the ordination from him;[10]
a confessor who directly violates the sacramental seal of confession;[11]
a person who procures a completed abortion;[12]
accomplices without whose assistance a violation of a law prescribing latae sententiae excommunication would not have been committed.[13]

 

[RileyG]

Ok, thanks. Yes, I did-esentially lie. (Thankfully, did repent and confess all my faults since then...)

Thank you. I feel great now knowing this. It's probably just my OCD kicking in.

God Bless you

 

[RileyG]

Update: Last Saturday I gave a full confession, and I now know God has forgiven me. I'm truly blessed. Thanks all.

 

[AXO]

Deliberately concealing a mortal sin makes all of the confession null and in addition you are committing a mortal sin which is that of sacrilege. However, I think that at this point those sins are already forgiven.