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Went to confession today actually. It was one of the more difficult ones I’ve had in a while. But, it’s necessary to face these challenges and do the right thing. Praying for all those out there who struggle with going. 🙏🙏🙏
All of our priests need to keep addressing the need for confession because I know too many of us do not go regularly, but are guilty of receiving communion. Lord, help us all sinners!!!🙏🙏🙏
"You don't have the right to tell God the way in which He we will forgive you your sins." I love it! If Catholic and Non - Catholic Christians only knew the freedom and the Grace we receive at the Sacrament of confession/penance/reconciliation, they would want to go as often as they could.🙏❤🕊✝️⛪
@@ratdog7050 Even saints like St John Paul II went once a week, but go as often as you need. Personally I try to go weekly, mostly because I'm kind of a perfectionist.
Bishop sheen said that you can pray to God to forgive your sins and God will forgive you if you are sincerely repentant!! I go to confession often and pray to God to forgive me my sins in between confessions!!! I believe bishop sheen!!! God is mercy itself!!!
If you're not conscious of mortal sin, go weekly unless you spiritual director says otherwise. Don't put confession off unless you are told to go less frequently.
My priest asked me to go no more frequently than once a month. I was going every 2 weeks. I go once a month unless I’ve committed a mortal sin, then I go as soon as possible & don’t receive communion until I can confess.🙏❤️
If you're not conscious of committing mortal sin, then it's not held against you. You must be fully aware and have free will to do so in order to commit a mortal sin against God.
You are not forgiven by the work of confession. You are forgiven by the work of Christ in the cross. He's got it covered. Hold to Him. You will die with unrepentant sin. We all will. We don't even know when we get things wrong. God is bigger than your mistakes. He's got you. Jesus is the way, the truth, and life. If we commit ourselves to Jesus, we repent and change our ways. That doesn't mean we won't sin (we're still in the flesh), but that we do everything we can to avoid sin. This is a change of lifestyle - Jesus is your Lord now, not sin, not Satan. Your salvation will not depend on having absolved from whatever sin using some phrases. It's not a spell you have to periodically use to clean yourself from sins. Jesus has already paid for it all! This is what matters: True repentance of the heart. The fact that you're worried about this shows that you're trying to avoid it. With that said, I will pray for you to have the strength from the Holy Spirit to stay away from sin. I will pray for the Spirit to renew your heart and mind. And remember Romans 8:15: The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.”
"If you have mortal sin, go to confession..." Me: "If you have sin, go to confession. Confession not only washes your sins, but heals us, deminishes any authority the Devil might have acquired over us and opens the doors for the graces that we need to overcome our sins."
Dear Armor of God channel, I think confession is extremely important because it includes an ordained priests blessing, although we cannot ignore scripture nor can we ignore the fact that salvation is not a confession to a priest, but rather salvation IS Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8-9) “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves” We see here that God's Word says that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by our own efforts or works. Also, correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t confession to God with change of ways what repentance is? And are we not called to repent? With that being said, I disagree when he states that we will not “see the inside of Heaven” if we don’t confess to a priest, because seeing the inside of Heaven means we have been saved, and salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ by the grace of God. I disagree that those who are in Christ will be condemned just by not going to confession.
I understand the need for confession, and I’ll go when I’m good and ready to go. I’m not sure I’m at a place where going to confession will make a difference. Since God doesn’t hear me when I pray, I can’t imagine He would forgive any sins I might confess.
the "problem" is that Jesus told apostles to forgive in the Name of God the sins but he never told the people to confess .. there is no direct order to make it like in current state - judicial process and court verdict.. why we even think that Jesus wanted it to look like this ??
Jesus teaching on the disciples forgiving/retaining sins can seem unclear. In that case, one might look to the writings of the church fathers (Ignatius, Polycarp, Clement, etc., who were followers of the original disciples) for further clarification.
Mortal sin is a nice sticky wicket. On one side, some people think everything is a mortal sin, but on the other side, many people think they are good people because they obey the law and never killed anybody. But in this day and age, millions, if not billions of "good" people are mass murderers. A man kills three kids in cold blood and gets the death penalty. Even though the death penalty is wrong, he more than deserves it, but a woman with an IUD - and her partner - kill upwards of 20-30 of their own children and consider themselves "good and responsible people." Any couple who has a child via in-vitro fertilization sacrifices 96% of their children to get the one they choose. The Octo-Mom is mocked for NOT selectively aborting 7 of her children. Birth control pills tend to be abortive as well as preventative. Rape victims are given abortion pills as a preventative measure. The Democratic party has gone from "just" supporting abortion to forcing the religion of pan-sexuality. In some Democrat-enslaved states, children are removed from their homes and mutilated if they identify as the opposite sex by the state. Parents have no say, so if you vote Democrat, ever, you have committed a mortal sin. End of discussion. The hardest sin, mortal or not, to avoid in this day and age is to think we are morally superior. It's so very hard NOT to say, "Lord, I thank you for my NOT being like that sinner over there." How can we NOT think we are morally superior when the world is swimming in evil?
You have great points, but the last one is one I struggle with a lot, so please help me understand. Some of us (myself included) do think we are slightly more morally superior than others because even though I’m a sinner like the rest, at least I’m trying to be better, vs others who really couldn’t care less. Can’t help but think, at least I have a conscience and I’m trying
@@vtomc Although we naturally try to justify or "create a level" of sin that makes sense to us (as mere humans), to God - all sin is despicable. Even the very smallest. It sounds terrible, especially as we have no hope in being sinless. Of course, Jesus, dying on the cross has changed that for us - however - His gift is given freely to anyone who accepts Him. That includes those with questionable morality. But we have no right to judge that, as we have not lived the same life as that person has. Who knows - if you have to live that same exact life as that person, perhaps you would have fallen further than that person had. Thus it's not up to us to feel superior - because - no matter the circumstances - we're not. Period. All we can do is acknowledge that we are no better than anyone else - even the most vile killer and thief; and to try our absolute best to change our ways - and have faith that, when Jesus judges us, He does so on His terms and not by the same terms that we used to judge others.
@@warren6395 Easier said than done. Knowing that something is wrong and not doing it, especially when it is simple human nature, are completely different animals. We just have to keep plugging away at it.
@@rschiwal that’s free will. We are above animals in that we can choose to deny instinct. Besides, what is easy AND worth doing?? Anything worth doing is, by nature, not ‘easy’
No, you *can* go straight to God; it is simply somewhat more "iffy" about the reparations- that's what the Act of Contrition really is. If that priest denies that at any point: he has self-excluded himself from the Church in that detail; but that particular low-level vow really does require that the penetant go to Confession ASAP. In short, if the repentance is sincere: they *will* go to confession, be it to a priest in *this* life, or to Christ Himself if need be- anything else is complete and utter nonsense. Given the falsehoods that those who have stood for so-called "traditional teachings" have engaged in, things *contrary* to the Catechism for instance, especially about the end-fate of all innocents: namely Heaven, even the unbaptized go there if they do not have any *actual* mortal sins; and that *is* expressed inside the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as well as even Vatican 2 for crying out loud- not the "spirit" thereof, but the actual *documents*, we know to automatically distrust forever anyone who'd claim to be able to speak for God.
They pretend to follow God yet reject his holy scripture and create their own doctrine. No man belongs between your prayers of repentance and our God. Catholic Confession was dreamed up by licentious priests to pry lewd secrets out of their fellow believers for entertainment.
Ah, another self-appointed sola scriptura expert. So tell me, John 20 - the power to forgive sins and withhold them - so Jesus was either (a) lying? (b) joking? (c) superfluous vacuous hot air? Pick one Mr Sola Scriptura, because that's your conclusion. But Jesus before saying those words, *breathed* on them "receive the Holy Spirit". So it is the power of the Holy Spirit. "As the Father sent Me, so I send you" - that means *DELEGATION* of authority. And note - Jesus only said this after the Resurrection, not before. Why? Because He was leaving - the Ascension. Then the Church hierarchy, headed by the Apostles would take over. Remember that the 70 elders had already been "sent out" - as a sign that others will be sent out, with power, to do God's work. God works through humans. Why? I don't know. He's God. God didn't need Moses or Abraham, but He chose them. Live with it. "Oh the power was only for the Apostles, not priests". So, that authority dies out in AD90 when the last Apostle John died? Sins no longer forgiven? Use your brains. Catholic theology has covered all these and more, 2,000 years of the best brains, and not Johnny-come-lately Luther 1,500 years later. So for 1,500 years no one was saved? So again, Jesus was joking or lying when He said "I will be with you ALWAYS"? Holy Spirit AWOL for 1,500 years? Use your brains.
@@veredictum4503 That’s your justification for a guy sitting in a box listening to another guy pray for forgiveness to him instead of God? Try Revelation 17:3-6, where the Roman Catholic Church is revealed for who she is and how she will be punished. An apostate body drunk on the blood of saints after the Crusades, The Reformation, and The Inquisition for starters. Historians estimate that the Vatican has slaughtered over 80 million people throughout their reign on earth, not really because of the “heretic’s” beliefs, but for their wealth and property. Not to mention all devices of torture that they created and used in dungeons during their reign of terror. Now they rape boys at the alter. Don’t tell me how our savior passed anything on to the Vatican, who war against scripture, when it is the creation and property of Satan.
God is not a computer, God knows yuor heart and many more things, especially a perfect contrition. Of course it is better to confess but even Father Pio was praying from a grandfather died 60 years before. When people told him he was long died Father Pio told them that God's time is just present and that past and future are not his time. Hence you can pray for salvation for a person who was a sinner after years and still God can save him.
It is unfair the church teaches this but won't allow you to confess if you're not in a fully state of grace. I am married to a man who had a civil marriage before and I'm unable to confess because the church won't let me.
Government officials are not ordained by God. In the eyes of the church, civil Marriages are not valid marriages. Your husband should speak to a priest about this.
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Catholic priest explains: is tattoo really a portal to the demonic?
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - No right to tell God the manner for Him to forgive our sins
2:30 - Cause for Canonization for 13-Year-Old Filipino Girl
Went to confession today actually. It was one of the more difficult ones I’ve had in a while. But, it’s necessary to face these challenges and do the right thing. Praying for all those out there who struggle with going. 🙏🙏🙏
All of our priests need to keep addressing the need for confession because I know too many of us do not go regularly, but are guilty of receiving communion. Lord, help us all sinners!!!🙏🙏🙏
"You don't have the right to tell God the way in which He we will forgive you your sins."
I love it!
If Catholic and Non - Catholic Christians only knew the freedom and the Grace we receive at the Sacrament of confession/penance/reconciliation, they would want to go as often as they could.🙏❤🕊✝️⛪
I like that "Do you have a shower only once a year?" lol
Well.... I shower daily but only go to confession about every 3 weeks :(
@@ratdog7050 Even saints like St John Paul II went once a week, but go as often as you need. Personally I try to go weekly, mostly because I'm kind of a perfectionist.
Bishop sheen said that you can pray to God to forgive your sins and God will forgive you if you are sincerely repentant!!
I go to confession often and pray to God to forgive me my sins in between confessions!!!
I believe bishop sheen!!! God is mercy itself!!!
We aren’t confessing our sins to the priest, we are confessing our sins to God, the priest is there to guide us and to provide absolution.
The priest is "in persona Christi". In the Person of Christ who absolves us.
My son goes every week and I since I take him I have started going every week. Before Vatican II you were required to go before receiving Communion.
If you're not conscious of mortal sin, go weekly unless you spiritual director says otherwise. Don't put confession off unless you are told to go less frequently.
My priest asked me to go no more frequently than once a month. I was going every 2 weeks. I go once a month unless I’ve committed a mortal sin, then I go as soon as possible & don’t receive communion until I can confess.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN It's good that you follow your confessor's instructions!
If you're not conscious of committing mortal sin, then it's not held against you. You must be fully aware and have free will to do so in order to commit a mortal sin against God.
You are not forgiven by the work of confession.
You are forgiven by the work of Christ in the cross. He's got it covered. Hold to Him.
You will die with unrepentant sin. We all will. We don't even know when we get things wrong. God is bigger than your mistakes. He's got you. Jesus is the way, the truth, and life. If we commit ourselves to Jesus, we repent and change our ways. That doesn't mean we won't sin (we're still in the flesh), but that we do everything we can to avoid sin. This is a change of lifestyle - Jesus is your Lord now, not sin, not Satan. Your salvation will not depend on having absolved from whatever sin using some phrases. It's not a spell you have to periodically use to clean yourself from sins. Jesus has already paid for it all! This is what matters:
True repentance of the heart. The fact that you're worried about this shows that you're trying to avoid it.
With that said, I will pray for you to have the strength from the Holy Spirit to stay away from sin. I will pray for the Spirit to renew your heart and mind. And remember Romans 8:15: The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.”
Thank you for this video, God bless you!
Blessed Nia, pray for us... Thank you for teaching me about her!
We can pray and confess our sins directly to God. Period!
"If you have mortal sin, go to confession..."
Me: "If you have sin, go to confession. Confession not only washes your sins, but heals us, deminishes any authority the Devil might have acquired over us and opens the doors for the graces that we need to overcome our sins."
Thank you Fr.
Yup. Actually biblical to confess to a priest. Found even in the Old Testament. Not sure why priests miss the OT one though.
Another gem well done. I think the consensus was once a month to reconciliation.
Dear Armor of God channel,
I think confession is extremely important because it includes an ordained priests blessing, although we cannot ignore scripture nor can we ignore the fact that salvation is not a confession to a priest, but rather salvation IS Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 2:8-9) “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves”
We see here that God's Word says that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by our own efforts or works.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t confession to God with change of ways what repentance is? And are we not called to repent?
With that being said, I disagree when he states that we will not “see the inside of Heaven” if we don’t confess to a priest, because seeing the inside of Heaven means we have been saved, and salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ by the grace of God. I disagree that those who are in Christ will be condemned just by not going to confession.
Hi Matteo, the see the inside of heaven part is if we're in a state of mortal sin.
@@spiritualwarfareseries Understood, I see the importance of confession, but also the power of the gift of repentance.
Osas is NOT 🚫 biblical .
I understand the need for confession, and I’ll go when I’m good and ready to go. I’m not sure I’m at a place where going to confession will make a difference. Since God doesn’t hear me when I pray, I can’t imagine He would forgive any sins I might confess.
@@Timblisi since forgiveness is God’s idea, why should I bother going?
@@Timblisi but God doesn’t want to take them off of me
@@Timblisi because I’ve been given no indication that God wants any kind of relationship with me
@@Timblisi I wish I knew. I guess I’m just not worthy
@@Timblisi I don’t need counseling, I need to stop asking the questions I’ve been asking. I’ll never get an answer to them
Amen🙏
the "problem" is that Jesus told apostles to forgive in the Name of God the sins but he never told the people to confess .. there is no direct order to make it like in current state - judicial process and court verdict.. why we even think that Jesus wanted it to look like this ??
Jesus teaching on the disciples forgiving/retaining sins can seem unclear. In that case, one might look to the writings of the church fathers (Ignatius, Polycarp, Clement, etc., who were followers of the original disciples) for further clarification.
Mortal sin is a nice sticky wicket. On one side, some people think everything is a mortal sin, but on the other side, many people think they are good people because they obey the law and never killed anybody.
But in this day and age, millions, if not billions of "good" people are mass murderers.
A man kills three kids in cold blood and gets the death penalty. Even though the death penalty is wrong, he more than deserves it, but a woman with an IUD - and her partner - kill upwards of 20-30 of their own children and consider themselves "good and responsible people." Any couple who has a child via in-vitro fertilization sacrifices 96% of their children to get the one they choose. The Octo-Mom is mocked for NOT selectively aborting 7 of her children. Birth control pills tend to be abortive as well as preventative. Rape victims are given abortion pills as a preventative measure. The Democratic party has gone from "just" supporting abortion to forcing the religion of pan-sexuality. In some Democrat-enslaved states, children are removed from their homes and mutilated if they identify as the opposite sex by the state. Parents have no say, so if you vote Democrat, ever, you have committed a mortal sin. End of discussion.
The hardest sin, mortal or not, to avoid in this day and age is to think we are morally superior. It's so very hard NOT to say, "Lord, I thank you for my NOT being like that sinner over there." How can we NOT think we are morally superior when the world is swimming in evil?
You have great points, but the last one is one I struggle with a lot, so please help me understand. Some of us (myself included) do think we are slightly more morally superior than others because even though I’m a sinner like the rest, at least I’m trying to be better, vs others who really couldn’t care less. Can’t help but think, at least I have a conscience and I’m trying
Apologies, I just re read your comment and realize we are on the same boat 😂
@@vtomc Although we naturally try to justify or "create a level" of sin that makes sense to us (as mere humans), to God - all sin is despicable. Even the very smallest.
It sounds terrible, especially as we have no hope in being sinless. Of course, Jesus, dying on the cross has changed that for us - however - His gift is given freely to anyone who accepts Him. That includes those with questionable morality.
But we have no right to judge that, as we have not lived the same life as that person has.
Who knows - if you have to live that same exact life as that person, perhaps you would have fallen further than that person had. Thus it's not up to us to feel superior - because - no matter the circumstances - we're not. Period. All we can do is acknowledge that we are no better than anyone else - even the most vile killer and thief; and to try our absolute best to change our ways - and have faith that, when Jesus judges us, He does so on His terms and not by the same terms that we used to judge others.
@@warren6395 Easier said than done. Knowing that something is wrong and not doing it, especially when it is simple human nature, are completely different animals. We just have to keep plugging away at it.
@@rschiwal that’s free will. We are above animals in that we can choose to deny instinct. Besides, what is easy AND worth doing?? Anything worth doing is, by nature, not ‘easy’
Can we just text our priest a confession?
No, you *can* go straight to God; it is simply somewhat more "iffy" about the reparations- that's what the Act of Contrition really is. If that priest denies that at any point: he has self-excluded himself from the Church in that detail; but that particular low-level vow really does require that the penetant go to Confession ASAP.
In short, if the repentance is sincere: they *will* go to confession, be it to a priest in *this* life, or to Christ Himself if need be- anything else is complete and utter nonsense. Given the falsehoods that those who have stood for so-called "traditional teachings" have engaged in, things *contrary* to the Catechism for instance, especially about the end-fate of all innocents: namely Heaven, even the unbaptized go there if they do not have any *actual* mortal sins; and that *is* expressed inside the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as well as even Vatican 2 for crying out loud- not the "spirit" thereof, but the actual *documents*, we know to automatically distrust forever anyone who'd claim to be able to speak for God.
Do you shower once a year?😂❤
Sorry bud, Nowhere in the bible does it say I need a priest to give me permission to talk to God.
You do realize that this is only for forgiveness right?
You sure?
They pretend to follow God yet reject his holy scripture and create their own doctrine. No man belongs between your prayers of repentance and our God. Catholic Confession was dreamed up by licentious priests to pry lewd secrets out of their fellow believers for entertainment.
100% agreed
Ah, another self-appointed sola scriptura expert. So tell me, John 20 - the power to forgive sins and withhold them - so Jesus was either (a) lying? (b) joking? (c) superfluous vacuous hot air? Pick one Mr Sola Scriptura, because that's your conclusion.
But Jesus before saying those words, *breathed* on them "receive the Holy Spirit". So it is the power of the Holy Spirit. "As the Father sent Me, so I send you" - that means *DELEGATION* of authority. And note - Jesus only said this after the Resurrection, not before. Why? Because He was leaving - the Ascension. Then the Church hierarchy, headed by the Apostles would take over. Remember that the 70 elders had already been "sent out" - as a sign that others will be sent out, with power, to do God's work. God works through humans. Why? I don't know. He's God. God didn't need Moses or Abraham, but He chose them. Live with it.
"Oh the power was only for the Apostles, not priests". So, that authority dies out in AD90 when the last Apostle John died? Sins no longer forgiven? Use your brains. Catholic theology has covered all these and more, 2,000 years of the best brains, and not Johnny-come-lately Luther 1,500 years later. So for 1,500 years no one was saved? So again, Jesus was joking or lying when He said "I will be with you ALWAYS"? Holy Spirit AWOL for 1,500 years? Use your brains.
@@veredictum4503 That’s your justification for a guy sitting in a box listening to another guy pray for forgiveness to him instead of God? Try Revelation 17:3-6, where the Roman Catholic Church is revealed for who she is and how she will be punished. An apostate body drunk on the blood of saints after the Crusades, The Reformation, and The Inquisition for starters. Historians estimate that the Vatican has slaughtered over 80 million people throughout their reign on earth, not really because of the “heretic’s” beliefs, but for their wealth and property. Not to mention all devices of torture that they created and used in dungeons during their reign of terror. Now they rape boys at the alter. Don’t tell me how our savior passed anything on to the Vatican, who war against scripture, when it is the creation and property of Satan.
More catholic propaganda.
The Scripture CLEARLY says.."Confess your sins one to another"
NO priest of a corrupted church necessary.
Nobody is confessing to those sinful priests anymore. People prefer seeing the psychiatrists today. 😊
Jesus healed my depression and s. thoughts. no psychiatrist and medicine did it for me
😂
God is not a computer, God knows yuor heart and many more things, especially a perfect contrition. Of course it is better to confess but even Father Pio was praying from a grandfather died 60 years before. When people told him he was long died Father Pio told them that God's time is just present and that past and future are not his time. Hence you can pray for salvation for a person who was a sinner after years and still God can save him.
It is unfair the church teaches this but won't allow you to confess if you're not in a fully state of grace. I am married to a man who had a civil marriage before and I'm unable to confess because the church won't let me.
Government officials are not ordained by God. In the eyes of the church, civil Marriages are not valid marriages. Your husband should speak to a priest about this.