God bless you! The devil will fight it. He will make you feel you cant go. Just put those feet in the car and turn it on and go. Do the best you can. The Lord knows you are human, nothing is too much for the Blood of The Lamb to forgive. Take heart. Know He Loves you. Maybe think of Him bloody on the cross gazing down upon you with Love that surpasses understanding. And know that we did that to Him. We crucified Him with our sins, even though He could have stopped it, He didn't, He did nothing wrong, but ahe dis it, because He Loves you! God is Love.
@@krysta-ajhaah-min-yah8368 As a practicing Catholic, I can tell you that the Sacrament of Confession is always nerve wrecking for me and fills me with anxiety and I go quite often. So don’t be hard on yourself, it’s not meant to be easy but my God, it’s so rewarding! 🙏 God bless you and fill you with peace.
@@Maria-lynn thank you so much! I did my EOC on the first three commandments and I'm already very anxious... I see clearly my weaknesses that led me to sin... I have drifted so far that my theology is currently non-Abrahamic yet I love the Church and very much value Reconciliation! And spiritual integrity!
I'm preparing for a confession after 7 years away in confusion and pain. I am troubled due to abuse from my family, my mother and my grandmother. However, my mother did not abort me, she allowed me life and gave me to my grandmother. My grandmother abused me but she was the one that made sure I was baptized and attended the catholic school. She didn't follow the church's teaching due to her own history but I do recognize that this was one of the most important things that she for me. I will learn to deal with my anger and pain over my past through the grace of God and learn to pray for my abusers (most are dead now) who are either in hell or in purgatory. Please pray for me to make a good confession today. We Catholics are so blessed to have the holy sacrament of confession. God is good.
God bless you and holy spirit your guardian angel ask to help you with your confession Jesus hates the sin but remember Jesus loves the sinner and forgives us for everything Amen
Save your breath. Instead go directly to God in prayer. He is just and will forgive you if you confess to Almighty God in the name of Jesus. John tells us we can approach the throne of grace boldly (without fear). God is your Holy Father. He loves you like no one else. What good earthly father would not forgive you if you confessed to something you’ve done and were truly sorry? He does not give penances. Jesus paid the price for sin once and for all. You do not need a priest for getting rid of sin. That is Old Testament. The New Testament opened the way to God himself. That is why he sent his Son so you could come to Him as adopted sons and daughters. There is no barrier between God and man anymore. That is why there is so much joy in the Lord.
@@Dustandfuzz tell me among the 3700 protestant denominations which one is the true religion?????why do you guys speak gibberish calling it 'speaking in tongues' when speaking in tongues is just speaking another person's language????why is your religion 500 years old and not 2000 yrs old with the apostles sent by Jesus Christ????why doesn't your religion have the power to deliver possessed people and always call Catholics????which of the 3700 protestant denominations compiled the bible????
Remember demons can try to confuse you and sidetrack you while compiling your list of sins for confession. They can even mess with you during confession if you're not careful. It happens to me so I'm sure it happens to others too.
So... you know you are human right? Like you are not capable, unless God Will it to make a perfect confession...I always say "Lord please forgive me for the things I am not remembering or am not aware of that have offended you." And really feel sorry for any sin. I think your comment may invite people to be scared and too afraid to aproach the sacrament. It definitely freaked me out when I read it. Do you think your sins are above God's forgivness, above Jesus's sacrifice if you fail to remember? No. Our God is also a merciful Savior along with a just Judge, do not dismiss His Love.
@@andrzejzie7046 Matthew 18:18 ““Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[b] loosed in heaven.”
@@Orangeon-lh8euMatthew 16:23 :23 Who turning, said to Peter: GO BEHIND ME, SATAN, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. VIVA CHRISTO REY!!! ✝️ 🙏 ♥️ 🕯️ 🔥 🕊️ ⚓ 📿
Confessing anything to an unbiblical snooping priest ( the records of your 'confessions ' are saved by the priests ) is no where to be found in the Word of Almighty God. James 5 : 16 ( King James Bible) says we should confess our FAULTS to one another. The controlling perverts ( Proverbs 13 : 13 KJV ) in the vatican have changed the words of Almighty God. ( Deuteronomy 4 : 2, Revelation 22 : 18-19 KJV ) Revelation 20 : 15 ( KJV ) foretells their final destination.
@@colvinator1611 tell me among the 3700 protestant denominations which one is the true religion?????why do you guys speak gibberish calling it 'speaking in tongues' when speaking in tongues is just speaking another person's language????why is your religion 500 years old and not 2000 yrs old with the apostles sent by Jesus Christ????why doesn't your religion have the power to deliver possessed people and always call Catholics????which of the 3700 protestant denominations compiled the bible????
@@michaelwachira8484 A protestant is a catholic ( protesting ) with issues to varying degrees regarding the satanic unbiblical doctrines of Rome. The Lord Jesus Christ didn't bring any " denominations " . They all practice the Roman wicked, satanic liturgies ( mass, forgiveness, tithes, et al ) so to speak. They've all been to Rome to kiss the antichrist's ring. You being a catholic can't understand salvation because you don't know whether you are saved or not. You don't have the indwelling Holy Ghost. You just hope you are. As for me, I just love the scriptures laid out in my King James Bible 1st century new testament along with the amazing Hebrew Masoretic texts which bring me the blessed foretelling of the Lord Jesus Christ et al. I keep well away from witchcraft, fairytales and Babylonian goddess worship ( catechism and apocrypha ). I love truth. I see how the Lord Jesus Christ identifies and destroys the Romish cult and all its followers in Revelation 17, 18 & 19 ( King James Bible). Heed His grave warning ( Revelation 18 : 4 KJV )
Well. There were a few good tips here. However, mostly it made me more uncomfortable about going to confession. I mean, it seems to be a whole lot of things I can do wrong more than right while trying to confess the wrongs I have done. Also, I am older and still not clear on what a mortal sin is. The lesser sins give me enough trouble with guilt and cons of disappointment in me. Sometimes I feel like I’m seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion and other times I wish I was seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion.
Do not take Confession for Granted.. It is heart breaking when it is hard to find. Sometimes even when its scheduled that the Priest should be there.. They aren't. That is why... I am so grateful to God every time I finally get to one. It is frustrating to try and keep up with the Sacraments when those shepherding us don't do it. Confession is a Gift!!
This is exactly what is happening in my country (Bolivia, south America), specially my city, one has to practically beg or even get sent out because they are "busy".
It reminds we of what I heard Priest say. He said "Hearing Nuns confessions was like being nibbled to death by ducks" I don't think I was supposed I wasn't meant to hear that, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Thank you Father. Had my confession last year after over 20 years probably or more and I was so nervous and it was kinda messy, unorganized! Blessings to the priest who tried his best to understand me!
God understands your heart. He and his Son love you like no priest can. You can go directly to Him. The cross where Jesus died made this possible. He is the only Father you need.
This was literally me last week. All this heaviness came out after 20 years, I’m sure I stumbled through the wording and formula, I got emotional as well but I was embraced with forgiveness and kindness and love and patience by the priest. It was a wonderful experience and I know I need to go again.
Father you made me more scared of confessing than I always have been, God bless you father but it seems very complicated now especially that I’m not very sure about the mortal sin except the obvious ones, and that’s why I don’t feel relieved or clean after confession I feel like somehow I did it wrong and committed a sacrilegious instead, may the Holy spirit guide us all 🙏
Although this video is not about the Rosary, can we get everyone who reads this comment to start / continue to pray all 15 decades of it every day? It definitely aids in understanding and properly using the sacraments and thus builds up virtue and contrition for sins, thus enabling us to have better confessions by increasing our holiness through good habits.
@@jesusnazaret7022 Why is that? Jesus loves you as you are. You will never go before Him without sin but when you leave you will be forgiven and all sins forgotten by Him. A priest will not forget and being human he nay spread them. I know they are not to do that but since you never hear a priest confession you can never be sure.
@@bcalvert321 - I suspect most Catholics don’t go to confession to a priest they know. 2. Most of our failings are not that interesting. 3. Most important, don’t take your cell phone into the confessional. Hope that helps.
We all do! But the feeling of peace and joy after having made a good confession and being forgiven of our sins is like nothing else in the world! Don’t mess it out due to fear or embarrassment!
Eloquent and well defined, this is the talents God gave to Fr Ripperger. I love how he has no delusions when freeing a soul of demons that IT IS Christ, not himself, that frees them. Amen, Father!
Remind as many priests as possible that they should be available for confession 30 minutes before each mass, sitting in the confessional. They should also remind their flocks of the importance of Confession
@@MystoRobot That is a lie of your church. You will not find a verse anywhere that says that. Jesus' Blood covers all our sins. When we go directly to Him he will forgive all of them. All you need do is repent. If Jesus, the one that died for your sins and a priest tells you that Jesus cannot or will not forgive then that man is a liar.
@@bcalvert321 When did _your_ church began, Ben? Who was the founder of whatever denomination you belong to? Jesus gave his Apostles the authority to forgive sins for a reason, and priests are the successors of their offices. If you claim that what I say is a "lie from my Church", then you also inadvertently claim that for 1500 years, Christendom have been wrong, *because for about 1500 years after Christ, there were ONLY Catholics around.* _(and Otrhodox, passed 1000 A.D)_ This claim of yours does not only sound ridiculous; it also portrays God as an incompetant for not being able to keep His Church in the Truth for more than a few decades. It would be far more *REALISTIC* (and Historical) to grasp that indeed, God kept his Church in the Truth this whole time... but a few heretics thought they were smarter than their superiors, and ended up in apostasy, coming-up with all sorts of new interpretations, creating a whole new vision of the Gospel (far more appealing and PERMISSIVE), just so it would all make sense *without a priesthood,* and *without a need to answer to anyone else than themselves.* I'll charitably say this to you: YOU should repent, because anyone who isn't living a good, pious catholic life right now *is in great spiritual danger.* If you die a heretic, your chances of getting in Heaven are near null.
Lord today will be the confession of all confessions for me. Today at 4 pm I will go and look into your eyes and pour out my heart, like never before. Lord my god I am grateful for this beautiful sacrament. This repeat sin cycle I have been trapped in is about to disappear finally. You have moved my spirit burning with a FULL contrition. A lesson within lessons. I am ready lord. I will complete this today and changed forever
Beautiful words. Lord bless you. Each and every confession is truely a renewal. Of body, mind and spirit. But especially and most importantly, of our soul. +. 🙏⬆️🕯️🕊️🌷
@@AMDG_-nk2dp since that confession, almost a month ago, my life has changed so much. My heart has transformed, my faith renewed in ways I never thought possible. Confession is a precious gift 😭 i wish I could give it to all the world.
In our Creed at the end, we believe in the forgiveness of sins. So, I believe that our Heavenly Father has such mercy for us, that our sins will be forgiven. You must 'tho be truly contrite in asking for forgiveness and amend your ways.
Thank you Fr. It was very instructive. However the recording I received appears to have skipped the explanation regarding the obligation of one who hears another person's confession. Thank you.
Jesus Christ gave us the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). He saved us baptized with the Holy Spirit from original sin we inherited. Sins committed after have to be confessed, absolved and penance served to be forgiven by God. 2 Corinthians 5:18 But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19 For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God. John 20:21 Therefore, he said to them again: “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: “Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20:23 Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” Matthew 16:17 And in response, Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven. Matthew 16:18 And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall release on earth shall be released, even in heaven.” Matthew 18:18 Amen I say to you, whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven. Luke 9:1 Then calling together the twelve Apostles, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the infirm.
Going through the ten commandments helps. Also asking our guardian Angel to help us in our examination of conscious. Father's Riperger book of deliverance prayers for lay people has an entire list of vices and explains every commandment for a more deep examination. God bless.
Veterans: The beginning healing of my spiritual wounds that translated clarity of mind, body and soul, carried away after 40 years of saying, I confess my sins to God, not man (I was ignorant of persona Christi). A beautiful stripping of sickness. Don’t walk to the confessional, run!
14:26 "but the seal of confession also applies to people that aren't the priest...we're not talking about the person who's confessing because he has a right to say things on his own provided prudence and these other circumstances which I've mentioned before. Observe, but he has a right to divulge what's in his own interior life, he has that right; however, if you happen to hear someone else's confession..." it get's cut off to 14:52 "...also make sure to mention your state in life" I'd like to ask what the end of the first statement was, concerning what happens when a person who is not the priest hears another person's confession. Thank you.
I don't know what Father Ripperger said, but it is true that if you overhear someone else's confession you are bound not to tell anybody else what you hear otherwise it's an automatic ex-communication just like with a priest.
@@trentonschirmer7389 It sounds like he began to say that people who overhear outside of the confessional are bound to the seal of confession too. People are not supposed to be listening to begin with though. If it's easy to hear the line needs to back up or plug your ears.
@@jacobkalee Once while praying at the back of the church after mass, father asked me to move because a lady wanted to confess but was afraid of being overheard. I sat at the front of the church as far as I could get away from confessional but I could still hear her. So I did the only thing I could think of - I started singing. As we were leaving, I chatted with the lady and she said the strangest thing happened during her confession...
@@carissstewart3211 We have been in a church where you can hear pretty far away too. I just plug my ears and try to focus on my own confession or something.
I want to go to confession but I’m a little nervous it’s been 46. Years 🤷♂️ Nothing serious a lot of your basic sins ! None the less there sins I don’t know where to begin 🙏
Don't be nervous. God is there to heap His mercy on you. Obviously, you want to do a good job of it (and that's the point of the video, I believe). But the important thing is to go and do your best. You'll be fine. Confession is really hard - even after 50 years of going to confession, I have to get my strength up to go. But I just try to remember how good I'll feel when I walk out.
Learned so much from this quick RUclips video. I've listened to it before and will listen again. I just keep my old habits and forget this beautiful tutorial on something it seems I need constantly.
At 5:03, Father, you state "this is a tribunal of justice". Yet, in St. Maria Faustina's Diary, Our Lord tells her it is "the Tribunal of MERCY". Our Lord is very clear about that. The court is at the moment of death---"Settle with your opponent while on your way to court..." (Mt. 5:25). Court, in the passage refers not to the confessional, but to the Lord's Court of Justice that occurs at the end of or lives. Jesus---and the Church's teaching--is clear that while on earth, we are given Our Lord's mercy. His Divine Justice occurs once we leave this earth.
It's a trend right now for priests to take a long time in confession. That's fine if you're one of the first five people in line, but for the other twenty people in line who don't get to confess it's not so good.
I have deliverance list, meaning bad habits that I have collected over a few decades. I highlight what is actually a sin. This narrows down my confession list.
I think that at 14: 50 Father was about to say that if we overhear someone else's confession, we are never to divulge it. I think the recording just had a skip in it.
Just wondering, if, for example, you kill someone. does confessing it take the sin away or will you be required to go to the authorities and admit the killing too complete.the repentance process?
Im confused about the part where Father says not to reveal our sins because it causes scandal aren’t we supposed to confess our sins to one another? Can someone please explain. 14:34
My understanding is confess to a priest for absolution of the sin. But also confess / penance those you hurt. So if you intentionally lied/gossiped behind someone’s back you tell them (as well as to a priest)
So for the person of sensitive conscience, it's likely not possible to have real peace and assurance as the record of sins will need ever to be recalled and notated for whether previously absolved or a new sin. So a sin journal then? Seems profoundly self-oriented rather than trusting of Christ.
Gosh you can tell this is an American priest his examples and language are so violent - I thought he was going to talk about regular sins not shooting people on the head or water boarding them to death. Holy bananas
At 0:22, this is how I made my confession while visiting in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Born & raised in N.O. rite, with closed door confessionals, this made me so nervous to be so out in the open, with the confession line just a few feet away. I know now this is the traditional way men make confession.
OK. No problem I have worked out a solution for you. Just enter the confessional and whisper to whoever is hiding behind the little dark window as follows: Hi! Nice to see you , to see you, and then say "where are you?" That's it! Nothing further required. Good luck!
I write the sins down that i am confessing on a piece of paper, take them to confession, then burn the paper after penance. It's easy to forget them in the heat of the moment.
There is also *IMPERFECT CONTRITION* - - which is expressing contrition (not because you believe you’ve offended God) but because of other reasons (i.e. - you believe it’s wrong, you regret doing it, concern about the consequences, etc). It’s important to be honest and tell the priest if it’s *imperfect contrition* - - which is still helpful because (1) you’re being truthful, (2) it helps the priest understand where you are in your spiritual life / growth. (Many people - perhaps most - are initially more concerned with being punished themselves - before they even realize the idea of offending God. Just as children are more concerned with getting in trouble with their parents - before realizing that their parents could be upset by their actions.)
Another circumstance of being misunderstood and rejected. So, more suffering. But I'm planning on going to confession anyways, despite the painful humiliations and feeling unloved. Jesus suffered these things and was innocent, unlike us. I need prayers.😞
@@AC-tu3kj God knows you are not perfect. He loves you more than you can understand. Let go and let God. We all need Him. We qll have our brokeness. I have to go to confession weekly and I have a terrible memory even then, so I always ask God to forgive the things I can't remember or the things I'm doing that I am not aware of. You need to trust Him. He knows you and understands you. I will pray for you. Pray, hope, and don't worry. This too shall pass. God sees your suffering. Give your troubles to Him. ❤ Pax vobiscum I also ask God that my suffering not be in vain, so I might save souls, including my own, so I know the suffering isn't for nothing.
Hear me hear me hear me now I’m in Florida dieses of Saint Petersburg! I will never ever wear that thing on my head another die first! I’m a regular Catholic ! I’d like to know I can’t go to Mass today because I have no car okay? So you’re so guilty of judge mental people and I go once a month and I checked all the boxes rosary Divine office yeah I checked the boxes go-ahead judge me it’s fun
You can email the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother - Fr Ripperger's website. On the website there is a "Contact Us" link. dolorans.org/ I suppose you could specify that the email is for him. I remember him saying in one of his other lectures that he receives thousands of emails every month. :)
I was away from the Church for many years. I could not find a Church offering confession. When I did it was an old confessional with two doors. I went in to find a priest sitting on a chair, and a second chair for me. I cannot describe the shock. ( My first thought was this is unsafe. I had not discovered the sexual problems but I felt uncomfortable) That was definitely not a good confession. I think the priest was confused as it was normal to him. The parish I attended offered confession once in the open. COVID was not long after and I had recourse to the internet and looking for Mass on line led me to the SSPX. Unfortunately are only in the big cities and not in line here. The found the Novus Ordo mass in the dark east for Sunday's. This led to my finding the SSPX and have heard Mass from Australia at 2am and the USA. in the mid afternoon 0 There is no Catholic Church where I live and at one stage a priest used to say mass in a private house Now the Catholics are going to the Protestant Church. Please pray for South Africa
Why was what he says about overhearing confession cut? I assume he just says it's a sin to repeat what you hear, which is pretty much gossiping anyway.
Glory be to God through Jesus, Mary and StJoseph! Respectfully, plz remain on complete guard my brothers and sisters through Christ for your soul and the souls of others! That includes families and friends and yes our enemies! Learn to recognize your enemy as a soldier in battle. God save us!
In the Bible sin is generally excused if done to save a life that you should live by my Commandments and not die. How is lying something to avoid even if you are killed?
You don't have to. Confess to Jesus as many sins you can remember. There is no need to say I did this six times and another sin 2 times. He knows what you did when you did it and how often. Ask for forgiveness and then ropent. Turn away from all of them.
@@bcalvert321 If that's so, how will the priest in persona Christi determine the penance to be performed commensurate with severity and frequency of the sins? To assume Jesus automatically forgives is the sin of presumption and very protestant...
@@robertdelutri8589 Why do we need any penance. That is not scriptural. When Jesus forgave the adulteress He did not give her any penance. He said go sin no more. The same with the lady at the well. There is not one scripture that Jesus said you must do this to be forgiven but repent. That is not just feeling sorry that is turning away from your sin. His blood covers every sin. There are no small or big sins.
@@bcalvert321 Put it in layman's terms: if you steal something is it enough merely to say you're "sorry"? You'd have to make some sort of retribution, wouldn't you? Pray for the virtue of humility...
@@bcalvert321 Ben, where does it say in The Bible that everything has to be in The Bible??? The Jews under the Old Covenant had Sacred Scripture (Tora) and Sacred Oral Tradition (Talmud). Likewise, the one and only Church founded by Jesus Christ has Sacred Scripture AND Sacred Tradition (oral). Does your KJV have John 21:25, or did Herr Luther delete that because he disagreed???
75 and cradle Catholic and Latin Mass ....i found this profoundly important and informative. I have been so grateful that i learned about & bought The New Roman Missal. Fr. Lasance. I read and applied all in the section of preparing for Reconciliation...went to Latin Mass at a NO parish w/a NO Priest that can say Latin Mass ( not a high mass yet) and he said that most all i was confessing was not a sin! 2nd NO priest that has said that. I feel they are too out of touch because of the NO seminary training I guess.
Father, The part where you explain the seal of confession as it pertains to persons who have for some reason overheard someone’s confession . What should be done. It seems like the instructions where incomplete or cut off. I also have question concerning priest and confessor bringing in cellphones into the confessional.
if anyone wavers if they should go to confession, I can share that a great remorse can come even after the confession. It is hurtful but also beautiful to see the seriousness of one's sins. I also had a demon encounter once at night after. So i know it does work, just sayin'
@@mas_79 I’ve been in a confessional where I could hear from the other side. Fortunately I didn’t pick up on any of the words and shortly thereafter covered my ears.
A Priest said that a marriage between two Catholic baptized people can not get divorced. Even if they had married at the justice of the peace… so all this time I thought I was living in sun. Then I heard another Priest saying differently. Which is what?
If the marriage was a valid sacramental marriage, they can have a civil divorce, but the Church cannot give them a divorce. If there was some condition at the time of the marriage that prevented the marriage from being a sacrament, then an annulment can be given. If two people who had a valid sacramental marriage do go through with a civil divorce, they are still married in the eyes of God and of the Church and they cannot marry other people after their divorce.
Yeah, go into your room, close the door. Pray to God in silence with a contrite heart and ask for forgivenes. He is just and will forgive your sins. That simple. No sense in losing time going to the confessional, confessing to someone who's a sinner, a pedophile or sexual predator.
You are relying on His mercy to forgive your sins. He is also perfectly just, which we don't want to encounter His justice. Jesus left us with the gift of reconciliation. If you choose not to avail of it, so be it. But you should not try to steer others away from it. You don't want that on your soul.
@@Dienekes678 nobody should come between God and man. At every turn Catholicism puts any and everything between God and man. Jesus said "pray to the Father. " Scripture also says, "In ALL prayer and supplication make petitions KNOWN TO GOD." I would rather confess my sins to a perfect God instead of a sinner like me and you. Finally, Peter says that the Lord's ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. Peter is saying what Jesus said to do. Pray to the Father. Your church is not listening to Jesus or Peter.
I don’t believe in confession. After serving my parish of the Sacred Heart, I worked with a priest who was a worst sinner than me. I’ll talk to God before confessing to a priest.
I'm very sorry that you do not believe in the sacraments Christ established in the Church, and I'm very sorry that you misunderstand the sacraments so completely. No sacrament, including confession, depends on the holiness of the priest effecting the sacrament. The priest is able to give Absolution by virtue of his office, not his personal character.
@@tryingnottobeasmartass757 no need to be sorry for me. I’m very close to God as it is, I pray to God everyday and every Sunday in church. I personally believe I can confess to God and he hears me.
I’m going to confession tomorrow after 40 years… the devil is messing me up now… guess he knows what’s coming.
God bless you! The devil will fight it. He will make you feel you cant go. Just put those feet in the car and turn it on and go. Do the best you can. The Lord knows you are human, nothing is too much for the Blood of The Lamb to forgive. Take heart. Know He Loves you. Maybe think of Him bloody on the cross gazing down upon you with Love that surpasses understanding. And know that we did that to Him. We crucified Him with our sins, even though He could have stopped it, He didn't, He did nothing wrong, but ahe dis it, because He Loves you! God is Love.
Good on u congrats! May God be with you.
I'm seriously considering this after maybe 20 years. My sleeping spells got worse 😂 I promise I will win 💝
@@krysta-ajhaah-min-yah8368 As a practicing Catholic, I can tell you that the Sacrament of Confession is always nerve wrecking for me and fills me with anxiety and I go quite often. So don’t be hard on yourself, it’s not meant to be easy but my God, it’s so rewarding! 🙏 God bless you and fill you with peace.
@@Maria-lynn thank you so much! I did my EOC on the first three commandments and I'm already very anxious... I see clearly my weaknesses that led me to sin... I have drifted so far that my theology is currently non-Abrahamic yet I love the Church and very much value Reconciliation! And spiritual integrity!
I never tire listening to Fr. Ripperger. He explained very clear and elloquently. God bless priests
I’m so happy you found her I
He is a BRAINLESS LIAR.
HE IS SCAMMING YOU
I'm preparing for a confession after 7 years away in confusion and pain. I am troubled due to abuse from my family, my mother and my grandmother. However, my mother did not abort me, she allowed me life and gave me to my grandmother. My grandmother abused me but she was the one that made sure I was baptized and attended the catholic school. She didn't follow the church's teaching due to her own history but I do recognize that this was one of the most important things that she for me. I will learn to deal with my anger and pain over my past through the grace of God and learn to pray for my abusers (most are dead now) who are either in hell or in purgatory. Please pray for me to make a good confession today. We Catholics are so blessed to have the holy sacrament of confession. God is good.
God bless you and holy spirit your guardian angel ask to help you with your confession Jesus hates the sin but remember Jesus loves the sinner and forgives us for everything Amen
Save your breath. Instead go directly to God in prayer. He is just and will forgive you if you confess to Almighty God in the name of Jesus. John tells us we can approach the throne of grace boldly (without fear). God is your Holy Father. He loves you like no one else. What good earthly father would not forgive you if you confessed to something you’ve done and were truly sorry?
He does not give penances. Jesus paid the price for sin once and for all.
You do not need a priest for getting rid of sin. That is Old Testament. The New Testament opened the way to God himself. That is why he sent his Son so you could come to Him as adopted sons and daughters. There is no barrier between God and man anymore. That is why there is so much joy in the Lord.
@@Dustandfuzz God has given his authority to his disciples to absolve sins.
@@Dustandfuzz You're such a hindrance. Examine your conscious, and go to the Church Jesus Christ Himself set up and gave authority to.
@@Dustandfuzz tell me among the 3700 protestant denominations which one is the true religion?????why do you guys speak gibberish calling it 'speaking in tongues' when speaking in tongues is just speaking another person's language????why is your religion 500 years old and not 2000 yrs old with the apostles sent by Jesus Christ????why doesn't your religion have the power to deliver possessed people and always call Catholics????which of the 3700 protestant denominations compiled the bible????
Remember demons can try to confuse you and sidetrack you while compiling your list of sins for confession. They can even mess with you during confession if you're not careful. It happens to me so I'm sure it happens to others too.
@Damian Vigorito oh crap. I hope I'm not possessed.
You must pray for guidance and illumination from Holy Spirit first
@Sun flower
Your hubris is demonic.
Yes. He's a real snake in the grass.
So... you know you are human right? Like you are not capable, unless God Will it to make a perfect confession...I always say "Lord please forgive me for the things I am not remembering or am not aware of that have offended you." And really feel sorry for any sin. I think your comment may invite people to be scared and too afraid to aproach the sacrament. It definitely freaked me out when I read it. Do you think your sins are above God's forgivness, above Jesus's sacrifice if you fail to remember? No. Our God is also a merciful Savior along with a just Judge, do not dismiss His Love.
I seriously could listen to Father all day !
You can. There's hundreds of talks
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Me to!!!
Luke 5:21 Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
@@andrzejzie7046 Matthew 18:18 ““Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[b] loosed in heaven.”
Confession makes me a better person and it makes it easier to forgive those who have offended me.
@@Orangeon-lh8euMatthew 16:23 :23 Who turning, said to Peter: GO BEHIND ME, SATAN, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.
VIVA CHRISTO REY!!!
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Confessing anything to an unbiblical snooping priest ( the records of your 'confessions ' are saved by the priests ) is no where to be found in the Word of Almighty God. James 5 : 16 ( King James Bible) says we should confess our FAULTS to one another. The controlling perverts ( Proverbs 13 : 13 KJV ) in the vatican have changed the words of Almighty God. ( Deuteronomy 4 : 2, Revelation 22 : 18-19 KJV ) Revelation 20 : 15 ( KJV ) foretells their final destination.
@@colvinator1611 tell me among the 3700 protestant denominations which one is the true religion?????why do you guys speak gibberish calling it 'speaking in tongues' when speaking in tongues is just speaking another person's language????why is your religion 500 years old and not 2000 yrs old with the apostles sent by Jesus Christ????why doesn't your religion have the power to deliver possessed people and always call Catholics????which of the 3700 protestant denominations compiled the bible????
@@michaelwachira8484 A protestant is a catholic ( protesting ) with issues to varying degrees regarding the satanic unbiblical doctrines of Rome. The Lord Jesus Christ didn't bring any " denominations " . They all practice the Roman wicked, satanic liturgies ( mass, forgiveness, tithes, et al ) so to speak. They've all been to Rome to kiss the antichrist's ring. You
being a catholic can't understand salvation because you don't know whether you are saved or not. You don't have the indwelling Holy Ghost. You just hope you are. As for me, I just love the scriptures laid out in my King James Bible 1st century new testament along with the amazing Hebrew Masoretic texts which bring me the blessed foretelling of the Lord Jesus Christ et al.
I keep well away from witchcraft, fairytales and Babylonian goddess worship ( catechism and apocrypha ). I love truth.
I see how the Lord Jesus Christ identifies and destroys the Romish cult and all its followers in Revelation 17, 18 & 19 ( King James Bible). Heed His grave warning ( Revelation 18 : 4 KJV )
Well. There were a few good tips here. However, mostly it made me more uncomfortable about going to confession. I mean, it seems to be a whole lot of things I can do wrong more than right while trying to confess the wrongs I have done.
Also, I am older and still not clear on what a mortal sin is. The lesser sins give me enough trouble with guilt and cons of disappointment in me. Sometimes I feel like I’m seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion and other times I wish I was seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion.
Thank you Fr God Bless you - praying three Hail Marys for you and all Priests - all y'all please pray for mercy & conversion of sinners
Thank God in my church Father is always in the confesional 30 minutes before mass and a good number of penitents are always in line. 🙋🏻♀️
Do not take Confession for Granted.. It is heart breaking when it is hard to find. Sometimes even when its scheduled that the Priest should be there.. They aren't. That is why... I am so grateful to God every time I finally get to one. It is frustrating to try and keep up with the Sacraments when those shepherding us don't do it.
Confession is a Gift!!
Pray for all of us
,, For all priests
For Mercy and appreciateabsolution,
Pray DAILY for our priests. They are a gift to us from God!
This is exactly what is happening in my country (Bolivia, south America), specially my city, one has to practically beg or even get sent out because they are "busy".
Best advice I ever had regarding Confession: Be brief, be brutal, be gone.
@srelizabethmaryhermit. Yes you heard it from Fr Thomas Celso, I'm assuming because that's exactly what he's stated.
It reminds we of what I heard Priest say. He said "Hearing Nuns confessions was like being nibbled to death by ducks" I don't think I was supposed I wasn't meant to hear that, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Thank you Father. Had my confession last year after over 20 years probably or more and I was so nervous and it was kinda messy, unorganized!
Blessings to the priest who tried his best to understand me!
It's good to write out a confession so you won't forget anything that way you may a goid confession God bless you with his blessings
God understands your heart. He and his Son love you like no priest can. You can go directly to Him. The cross where Jesus died made this possible. He is the only Father you need.
This was literally me last week. All this heaviness came out after 20 years, I’m sure I stumbled through the wording and formula, I got emotional as well but I was embraced with forgiveness and kindness and love and patience by the priest. It was a wonderful experience and I know I need to go again.
Father you made me more scared of confessing than I always have been, God bless you father but it seems very complicated now especially that I’m not very sure about the mortal sin except the obvious ones, and that’s why I don’t feel relieved or clean after confession I feel like somehow I did it wrong and committed a sacrilegious instead, may the Holy spirit guide us all 🙏
Although this video is not about the Rosary, can we get everyone who reads this comment to start / continue to pray all 15 decades of it every day? It definitely aids in understanding and properly using the sacraments and thus builds up virtue and contrition for sins, thus enabling us to have better confessions by increasing our holiness through good habits.
Wait 15 decades? I thought there were 5
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By 15 decades, they mean the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries.
How about the Luminous mysteries? that makes 20 decades
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I can't get past 5 decades. My concentration is terrible. I'll try to increase. Plz pray I say my Rosary better and more. Thank you!
I feel so nervous before confession
Everyone does!
@@jesusnazaret7022 Why? Jesus will take you as you are. You never have to put on a good face for Him. He loves you as you are.
@@jesusnazaret7022 Why is that? Jesus loves you as you are. You will never go before Him without sin but when you leave you will be forgiven and all sins forgotten by Him. A priest will not forget and being human he nay spread them. I know they are not to do that but since you never hear a priest confession you can never be sure.
@@bcalvert321 - I suspect most Catholics don’t go to confession to a priest they know. 2. Most of our failings are not that interesting. 3. Most important, don’t take your cell phone into the confessional. Hope that helps.
We all do! But the feeling of peace and joy after having made a good confession and being forgiven of our sins is like nothing else in the world! Don’t mess it out due to fear or embarrassment!
Eloquent and well defined, this is the talents God gave to Fr Ripperger. I love how he has no delusions when freeing a soul of demons that IT IS Christ, not himself, that frees them. Amen, Father!
Remind as many priests as possible that they should be available for confession 30 minutes before each mass, sitting in the confessional.
They should also remind their flocks of the importance of Confession
You can confess directly to Jesus any time of the day or night.
@@bcalvert321
Not for mortal sins, which leads to death. Those must be confessed to a priest.
@@MystoRobot That is a lie of your church. You will not find a verse anywhere that says that. Jesus' Blood covers all our sins. When we go directly to Him he will forgive all of them. All you need do is repent. If Jesus, the one that died for your sins and a priest tells you that Jesus cannot or will not forgive then that man is a liar.
@@bcalvert321 When did _your_ church began, Ben? Who was the founder of whatever denomination you belong to? Jesus gave his Apostles the authority to forgive sins for a reason, and priests are the successors of their offices.
If you claim that what I say is a "lie from my Church", then you also inadvertently claim that for 1500 years, Christendom have been wrong, *because for about 1500 years after Christ, there were ONLY Catholics around.* _(and Otrhodox, passed 1000 A.D)_
This claim of yours does not only sound ridiculous; it also portrays God as an incompetant for not being able to keep His Church in the Truth for more than a few decades.
It would be far more *REALISTIC* (and Historical) to grasp that indeed, God kept his Church in the Truth this whole time... but a few heretics thought they were smarter than their superiors, and ended up in apostasy, coming-up with all sorts of new interpretations, creating a whole new vision of the Gospel (far more appealing and PERMISSIVE), just so it would all make sense *without a priesthood,* and *without a need to answer to anyone else than themselves.*
I'll charitably say this to you:
YOU should repent, because anyone who isn't living a good, pious catholic life right now *is in great spiritual danger.* If you die a heretic, your chances of getting in Heaven are near null.
@@bcalvert321 look, Protestant, you're not convincing anyone. We've heard this BS before. Be a good lad and buzz off
Lord today will be the confession of all confessions for me. Today at 4 pm I will go and look into your eyes and pour out my heart, like never before. Lord my god I am grateful for this beautiful sacrament. This repeat sin cycle I have been trapped in is about to disappear finally. You have moved my spirit burning with a FULL contrition. A lesson within lessons. I am ready lord. I will complete this today and changed forever
Beautiful words. Lord bless you. Each and every confession is truely a renewal. Of body, mind and spirit. But especially and most importantly, of our soul. +. 🙏⬆️🕯️🕊️🌷
@@AMDG_-nk2dp since that confession, almost a month ago, my life has changed so much. My heart has transformed, my faith renewed in ways I never thought possible. Confession is a precious gift 😭 i wish I could give it to all the world.
One quickly realizes why being a truly consistent Catholic is so difficult. In the end, it seems, very few of us will make it to heaven.
In our Creed at the end, we believe in the forgiveness of sins. So, I believe that our Heavenly Father has such mercy for us, that our sins will be forgiven. You must 'tho be truly contrite in asking for forgiveness and amend your ways.
Thank you Fr. It was very instructive. However the recording I received appears to have skipped the explanation regarding the obligation of one who hears another person's confession. Thank you.
Very concise and to the point discussion. Thank you Father Ripperger . It is much appreciated. +
Jesus Christ gave us the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). He saved us baptized with the Holy Spirit from original sin we inherited. Sins committed after have to be confessed, absolved and penance served to be forgiven by God.
2 Corinthians 5:18 But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:19 For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.
John 20:21 Therefore, he said to them again: “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:23 Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
Matthew 16:17 And in response, Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven.
Matthew 16:18 And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall release on earth shall be released, even in heaven.”
Matthew 18:18 Amen I say to you, whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven.
Luke 9:1 Then calling together the twelve Apostles, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.
Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the infirm.
I’m almost 75 and I still don’t know how to really catalog and remember all my sins. I wish priests would teach more about sin in homilies.
Going through the ten commandments helps. Also asking our guardian Angel to help us in our examination of conscious. Father's Riperger book of deliverance prayers for lay people has an entire list of vices and explains every commandment for a more deep examination.
God bless.
Get a Baltimore Catechism
I have gone in with a written list more than once and the priests liked that.
If you have so many doubts in your mind please sit down with your priest and talk about it.
Veterans: The beginning healing of my spiritual wounds that translated clarity of mind, body and soul, carried away after 40 years of saying, I confess my sins to God, not man (I was ignorant of persona Christi). A beautiful stripping of sickness. Don’t walk to the confessional, run!
Thank you Lord and our Blessed Mother for Father Ripperger. I love how he gives specific instructions, his directness is a huge help.
I've been embarrassed to confess. Need to prepare and need to make my list.
Thank you for this clarifying information. Hopefully, my confessions will be much better for me and the priest!
Thank you this will help me out so much. Awesome
14:26 "but the seal of confession also applies to people that aren't the priest...we're not talking about the person who's confessing because he has a right to say things on his own provided prudence and these other circumstances which I've mentioned before. Observe, but he has a right to divulge what's in his own interior life, he has that right; however, if you happen to hear someone else's confession..." it get's cut off to 14:52 "...also make sure to mention your state in life" I'd like to ask what the end of the first statement was, concerning what happens when a person who is not the priest hears another person's confession. Thank you.
I don't know what Father Ripperger said, but it is true that if you overhear someone else's confession you are bound not to tell anybody else what you hear otherwise it's an automatic ex-communication just like with a priest.
@@trentonschirmer7389 It sounds like he began to say that people who overhear outside of the confessional are bound to the seal of confession too. People are not supposed to be listening to begin with though. If it's easy to hear the line needs to back up or plug your ears.
@@jacobkalee Once while praying at the back of the church after mass, father asked me to move because a lady wanted to confess but was afraid of being overheard. I sat at the front of the church as far as I could get away from confessional but I could still hear her. So I did the only thing I could think of - I started singing. As we were leaving, I chatted with the lady and she said the strangest thing happened during her confession...
@@carissstewart3211 We have been in a church where you can hear pretty far away too. I just plug my ears and try to focus on my own confession or something.
@@a.r.4093 Take this to confession and get advice from the priest.
I want to go to confession but I’m a little nervous it’s been 46. Years 🤷♂️ Nothing serious a lot of your basic sins ! None the less there sins I don’t know where to begin 🙏
you would do a general confession
Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis.
This isn’t a good video to watch before my very first confession coming up. Makes me nervous to mess up. Thanks Fr.
Don't be nervous. God is there to heap His mercy on you. Obviously, you want to do a good job of it (and that's the point of the video, I believe). But the important thing is to go and do your best. You'll be fine. Confession is really hard - even after 50 years of going to confession, I have to get my strength up to go. But I just try to remember how good I'll feel when I walk out.
Her husband didn't like the cake so he shot the dog 😂
Thanks father.
Fr. Chad R. I give praise to the Lord for crossing our paths.
5:51 - - a vice called *loquacity* - - it means *talking too much.*
Confession is good. I went to confession and my addiction got eradicated.
Confession is very comforting and happy
Learned so much from this quick RUclips video. I've listened to it before and will listen again. I just keep my old habits and forget this beautiful tutorial on something it seems I need constantly.
At 5:03, Father, you state "this is a tribunal of justice". Yet, in St. Maria Faustina's Diary, Our Lord tells her it is "the Tribunal of MERCY". Our Lord is very clear about that. The court is at the moment of death---"Settle with your opponent while on your way to court..." (Mt. 5:25). Court, in the passage refers not to the confessional, but to the Lord's Court of Justice that occurs at the end of or lives. Jesus---and the Church's teaching--is clear that while on earth, we are given Our Lord's mercy. His Divine Justice occurs once we leave this earth.
That did sound a bit funny... Thank you.. now I know why.. You are right. Mercy Is God's way after all.... Thank God for that lol.
It's a trend right now for priests to take a long time in confession. That's fine if you're one of the first five people in line, but for the other twenty people in line who don't get to confess it's not so good.
Best advice, guidance I have ever heard on confession.
Amazing clear on point. God bless fr Ripperger
I love Confession . It cleans your consciousness and makes you feel so much lighter .❤
Thanks Fr. Ripperger for these words on confession.
I have deliverance list, meaning bad habits that I have collected over a few decades. I highlight what is actually a sin. This narrows down my confession list.
I think that at 14: 50 Father was about to say that if we overhear someone else's confession, we are never to divulge it. I think the recording just had a skip in it.
That was helpful, Father. Thank you and God bless you.
Thank you Father 🙏🙏🙏
Just wondering, if, for example, you kill someone. does confessing it take the sin away or will you be required to go to the authorities and admit the killing too complete.the repentance process?
Yes the sin will get rid from your soul. Your sin will be forgiven by the priest
Im confused about the part where Father says not to reveal our sins because it causes scandal aren’t we supposed to confess our sins to one another? Can someone please explain. 14:34
My understanding is confess to a priest for absolution of the sin. But also confess / penance those you hurt. So if you intentionally lied/gossiped behind someone’s back you tell them (as well as to a priest)
@@charlesbotensten thank you for your response 🙏
So for the person of sensitive conscience, it's likely not possible to have real peace and assurance as the record of sins will need ever to be recalled and notated for whether previously absolved or a new sin. So a sin journal then? Seems profoundly self-oriented rather than trusting of Christ.
confession is not an easy thing to undefstand 😩
Gosh you can tell this is an American priest his examples and language are so violent - I thought he was going to talk about regular sins not shooting people on the head or water boarding them to death. Holy bananas
At 0:22, this is how I made my confession while visiting in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Born & raised in N.O. rite, with closed door confessionals, this made me so nervous to be so out in the open, with the confession line just a few feet away. I know now this is the traditional way men make confession.
Thank you
In the last 10 years of going to confession the priest have stopped me or said to me that's enough. I do go over my sins before going into confession!
Does Father Ripperger have an e-mail address?
what if im kind of low iq so its hard for me to be so precise?
OK. No problem I have worked out a solution for you. Just enter the confessional and whisper to whoever is hiding behind the little dark window as follows: Hi! Nice to see you , to see you, and then say "where are you?" That's it! Nothing further required. Good luck!
@@johnphelan8300 you must be more low IQ than i.
I write the sins down that i am confessing on a piece of paper, take them to confession, then burn the paper after penance.
It's easy to forget them in the heat of the moment.
@@anthony1776diazso do i. Brief list of a few words, keeps me on track.
I will love to give all my sins to Jesus inorder to change my life from bad to good.
There is also *IMPERFECT CONTRITION* - - which is expressing contrition (not because you believe you’ve offended God) but because of other reasons (i.e. - you believe it’s wrong, you regret doing it, concern about the consequences, etc). It’s important to be honest and tell the priest if it’s *imperfect contrition* - - which is still helpful because (1) you’re being truthful, (2) it helps the priest understand where you are in your spiritual life / growth. (Many people - perhaps most - are initially more concerned with being punished themselves - before they even realize the idea of offending God. Just as children are more concerned with getting in trouble with their parents - before realizing that their parents could be upset by their actions.)
Thanks Fr. Now I know more on how to properly do it. 🙏
What about people with mental health issues?
Another circumstance of being misunderstood and rejected. So, more suffering. But I'm planning on going to confession anyways, despite the painful humiliations and feeling unloved. Jesus suffered these things and was innocent, unlike us. I need prayers.😞
@@AC-tu3kj God knows you are not perfect. He loves you more than you can understand. Let go and let God. We all need Him. We qll have our brokeness. I have to go to confession weekly and I have a terrible memory even then, so I always ask God to forgive the things I can't remember or the things I'm doing that I am not aware of. You need to trust Him. He knows you and understands you. I will pray for you. Pray, hope, and don't worry. This too shall pass. God sees your suffering. Give your troubles to Him. ❤ Pax vobiscum I also ask God that my suffering not be in vain, so I might save souls, including my own, so I know the suffering isn't for nothing.
@@ammcroft Thank you for your loving response. Pax vobiscum and God bless you and thank you for your prayers❤🙏🏻
God knows the heart and this judgement is His.
John 20:23
Thank you, Father!! So helpful!
this priest is tough 😮
Hear me hear me hear me now I’m in Florida dieses of Saint Petersburg! I will never ever wear that thing on my head another die first! I’m a regular Catholic ! I’d like to know I can’t go to Mass today because I have no car okay? So you’re so guilty of judge mental people and I go once a month and I checked all the boxes rosary Divine office yeah I checked the boxes go-ahead judge me it’s fun
7:45 - - species, number + circumstances
God Bless you Fr!
I used to do confession when I was a little girl
They edited This video? Why?
How can i get in touch w/Fr?
You can email the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother - Fr Ripperger's website. On the website there is a "Contact Us" link. dolorans.org/ I suppose you could specify that the email is for him. I remember him saying in one of his other lectures that he receives thousands of emails every month. :)
@Daniel Pan Well, he showed the Holy Father because it was a good picture of the Pope confessing, it looked good. Ok.
@Daniel Pan ok? And that's relevant how?
@Daniel Pan Ok, I'm not disagreeing, I'm just asking how that's relevant to this homily or that photi
I was away from the Church for many years. I could not find a Church offering confession. When I did it was an old confessional with two doors. I went in to find a priest sitting on a chair, and a second chair for me. I cannot describe the shock. ( My first thought was this is unsafe. I had not discovered the sexual problems but I felt uncomfortable) That was definitely not a good confession. I think the priest was confused as it was normal to him. The parish I attended offered confession once in the open. COVID was not long after and I had recourse to the internet and looking for Mass on line led me to the SSPX. Unfortunately are only in the big cities and not in line here. The found the Novus Ordo mass in the dark east for Sunday's. This led to my finding the SSPX and have heard Mass from Australia at 2am and the USA. in the mid afternoon 0 There is no Catholic Church where I live and at one stage a priest used to say mass in a private house Now the Catholics are going to the Protestant Church. Please pray for South Africa
Why was what he says about overhearing confession cut? I assume he just says it's a sin to repeat what you hear, which is pretty much gossiping anyway.
Glory be to God through Jesus, Mary and StJoseph! Respectfully, plz remain on complete guard my brothers and sisters through Christ for your soul and the souls of others! That includes families and friends and yes our enemies! Learn to recognize your enemy as a soldier in battle. God save us!
In the Bible sin is generally excused if done to save a life that you should live by my Commandments and not die. How is lying something to avoid even if you are killed?
I never knew you were supposed to say how many times you committed a sin. Thank you, Father.
You don't have to. Confess to Jesus as many sins you can remember. There is no need to say I did this six times and another sin 2 times. He knows what you did when you did it and how often. Ask for forgiveness and then ropent. Turn away from all of them.
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If that's so, how will the priest in persona Christi determine the penance to be performed commensurate with severity and frequency of the sins? To assume Jesus automatically forgives is the sin of presumption and very protestant...
@@robertdelutri8589 Why do we need any penance. That is not scriptural. When Jesus forgave the adulteress He did not give her any penance. He said go sin no more. The same with the lady at the well. There is not one scripture that Jesus said you must do this to be forgiven but repent. That is not just feeling sorry that is turning away from your sin. His blood covers every sin. There are no small or big sins.
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Put it in layman's terms: if you steal something is it enough merely to say you're "sorry"? You'd have to make some sort of retribution, wouldn't you?
Pray for the virtue of humility...
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Ben, where does it say in The Bible that everything has to be in The Bible??? The Jews under the Old Covenant had Sacred Scripture (Tora) and Sacred Oral Tradition (Talmud). Likewise, the one and only Church founded by Jesus Christ has Sacred Scripture AND Sacred Tradition (oral). Does your KJV have John 21:25, or did Herr Luther delete that because he disagreed???
75 and cradle Catholic and Latin Mass ....i found this profoundly important and informative. I have been so grateful that i learned about & bought The New Roman Missal. Fr. Lasance. I read and applied all in the section of preparing for Reconciliation...went to Latin Mass at a NO parish w/a NO Priest that can say Latin Mass ( not a high mass yet) and he said that most all i was confessing was not a sin! 2nd NO priest that has said that. I feel they are too out of touch because of the NO seminary training I guess.
Father, The part where you explain the seal of confession as it pertains to persons who have for some reason overheard someone’s confession . What should be done. It seems like the instructions where incomplete or cut off. I also have question concerning priest and confessor bringing in cellphones into the confessional.
So does species mean if we entertained a lustful thought, we should say who it was about?
To many bad edits. So confessing under Attrition rather then Contrition is useless?
God bless you. Thank you. Bless God. Bless His Church.
Love you Fr
if anyone wavers if they should go to confession, I can share that a great remorse can come even after the confession. It is hurtful but also beautiful to see the seriousness of one's sins. I also had a demon encounter once at night after. So i know it does work, just sayin'
J M J
Father can you plssss tell us sins that we do them during the day and we Don t know it a sin pls
“If you hear someone else’s confession...”
What is it?
@@mas_79 I’ve been in a confessional where I could hear from the other side. Fortunately I didn’t pick up on any of the words and shortly thereafter covered my ears.
@@mas_79 agreed
A Priest said that a marriage between two Catholic baptized people can not get divorced. Even if they had married at the justice of the peace… so all this time I thought I was living in sun.
Then I heard another Priest saying differently.
Which is what?
If the marriage was a valid sacramental marriage, they can have a civil divorce, but the Church cannot give them a divorce. If there was some condition at the time of the marriage that prevented the marriage from being a sacrament, then an annulment can be given. If two people who had a valid sacramental marriage do go through with a civil divorce, they are still married in the eyes of God and of the Church and they cannot marry other people after their divorce.
Will someone explain the "I'm a married man" thing to me?
Yeah, go into your room, close the door. Pray to God in silence with a contrite heart and ask for forgivenes. He is just and will forgive your sins. That simple. No sense in losing time going to the confessional, confessing to someone who's a sinner, a pedophile or sexual predator.
You are relying on His mercy to forgive your sins. He is also perfectly just, which we don't want to encounter His justice.
Jesus left us with the gift of reconciliation. If you choose not to avail of it, so be it. But you should not try to steer others away from it. You don't want that on your soul.
@@Dienekes678 nobody should come between God and man. At every turn Catholicism puts any and everything between God and man. Jesus said "pray to the Father. " Scripture also says, "In ALL prayer and supplication make petitions KNOWN TO GOD." I would rather confess my sins to a perfect God instead of a sinner like me and you. Finally, Peter says that the Lord's ears are open to the prayers of the righteous. Peter is saying what Jesus said to do. Pray to the Father. Your church is not listening to Jesus or Peter.
I committed sloth and gluttony against God.
What's emotional state?
I don’t believe in confession. After serving my parish of the Sacred Heart, I worked with a priest who was a worst sinner than me. I’ll talk to God before confessing to a priest.
I'm very sorry that you do not believe in the sacraments Christ established in the Church, and I'm very sorry that you misunderstand the sacraments so completely. No sacrament, including confession, depends on the holiness of the priest effecting the sacrament. The priest is able to give Absolution by virtue of his office, not his personal character.
@@tryingnottobeasmartass757 no need to be sorry for me. I’m very close to God as it is, I pray to God everyday and every Sunday in church. I personally believe I can confess to God and he hears me.
14:50 audio shifts to different part of sermon
My name is Inigo Montoyo. You killed my father. Lol. 🙏🙏🙏
@@rivinius1 my name is Inigo Montoya. You have not been to confession in 10 years. Prepare to be absolved.
@@puretestosterone9614 hilarious man. Ha ha ha. One of my favorite shows of all time.
Jesus is our High Priest.❤
Cos ones I hear that we sin 7 time a day
Love the appropriate facepalm at 1:18
The devils time
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Anyone knows what was the word the father said in 5:56? Lupocity? Or what word is that?
Loquacity
Loquacity - speaking too much
Speaking too much