Bringing the Same Sins to Confession? Try This
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Bringing the same sins to confession is like sitting in traffic. It feels like there’s nothing we can do about it. We are confident we know the way out, but we still keep falling into that sin, whatever it may be. Instead of clinging to the lie that “we got this”, cling to Jesus.
We can’t do it alone. We need directions. Better yet, we need someone who knows the way to show the way.
Fr. Mark-Mary offers this prayer from Brother Isaiah for when we’re struggling with habitual sin:
From the tendency to self-reliance, deliver me O Lord
From a fear of asking for help, deliver me O Lord
From a doubt in your providence, deliver me O Lord
From a doubt that you are a good Father, deliver me O Lord
From the tendency to believe that my weakness will define me, deliver me O Lord
From discouragement, deliver me O Lord
From despair, deliver me O Lord
With a confidence in your fatherhood-that you are a good father-strengthen me, O Lord. With a trust in your guidance and your providence, strengthen me, O Lord. With a zeal for virtue and growth, strengthen me, O Lord. With hope that I can with your help succeed, strengthen me, O Lord. With the confidence and the courage to ask for help, strengthen me, O Lord. With an ear that is attuned to your voice, strengthen me, O Lord. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Spend time with the Word of God as well, and let it soak in. You will find that you are not meant to fight this battle alone. God wants us to be one, to be a family, helping each other to become holy.
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"Did Jesus fall while carrying the cross? And did he give up after falling?"
(Some confessional advidse I once heard from a priest)
Löwen Welle ah that is true😢 thank you for sharing!!
Wow that's deep
Thank you for posting your confessor's comment. Both of you have helped me.
Thank you for sharing your priest’s advice. Something to think about and remember
"We're not meant to do it all alone"..... Lord Jesus, Son of the Father, in union with the Holy Spirit have mercy on us!!!
Thank you, Fr. Mark Mary😇😇😇
Pray the Rosary daily, it will weaken your attachment to sin...
So true
Why does the rosary do that?
@@ddmdUp1 because its a Supernatural weapon against vice
@@hbsong9964 Yes, you also meditate on Jesus's life ❤
I agree, its so incredibly powerful!
I was actually just about to leave for Confession when this popped up
John 20:21
Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.” When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”
From this as the church was "led into all truth" by the Holy Spirit the sacrament of reconciliation developed. You may not put faith in it but it comes to us from Jesus himself.
that’s what we do as Catholics
@@anthonyjmaurizzio7036 YES, from JESUS Himself. Love it!
Pray for me guys
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Will do! May God be with you forever and show you his will. You're loved
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Wakim Wakim 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I pray that you grow to know God and to love Him, as well as to recognize the graces in your life coming from Him and love Him because He loves you.
I just failed with the same sin, please brother pray for me to defeat this weakness. God bless you.
I desire NOT to let go of studying God’s Word through Catholicism ( I am alone). Even though By staying committed to my Non-Catholic religion , I can find assistance. However, where are the thoughts of my heart ( for 4 months...in secrecy, I’m growing in a in-depth intimate relationship with God through the study of the Catholic Religion) Pray for me🙏🏾
IF you don't mind sharing, what have been some eye opening or experiences you notice have taken place along your way of growth? I find knowing of my brothers and sister's in Christ testimonies help me to grow or inspiring.
Either way, it's okay if you don't feel ready or able to share. But just in case, I thought I would ask.
Bless you, bless all of us who are growing closer in our relationship every day with our Lord! Amen.
cling to Jesus!
I'm trying!!
The Senior Bodyguard So am I!!!
Praying for us both!
The Senior Bodyguard So will I ... ❤️
Meditation: Lord, how quickly and easily I run from You. Fearful of losing my will, I run from Yours, knowing full well, like the young rich man in Scripture, that in following You I must give up what I cling to.
My Lord, as I run from You let me stumble over your love and mercy so that I may fall into your arms and cling to your loving embrace.
@Teresa Bogus Well said! I’m publishing a weekly RUclips video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Fr. Mark-Mary: “...and just to sit with my-excuse my language, if this is too strong of a word for you...”
Me: **leans in with increasing shock and terror at what he might say...**
Fr. Mark-Mary: “...stupidity”
🙄😂👍🏼 You’re wonderful, Father! Thanks for your great video, per usual.
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Are you saying you don't like father Mark Mary? I'm confused!
@@buddybrown8607No, he's not saying that at all.
Confession is a beautiful grace, it’s never easy to go and reveal the things you still have not overcome. God wants our hearts , our love, our humility.
I’m also directionally challenged 🤣😂your story is hilarious , love the honesty. Keep happy and laugh at yourself and lost is a place too!🤣
You cannot and never will grow in holiness unless you admit that you, by yourself, are powerless. Only by the grace of God can anyone succeed.
3 Hail Marys for you, Father
I need to be reminded of this often.
Talk to Jesus every day i have conversations with Him so many distractions today He has to come first be the center of our life
Pray for people in hospital every single day,they really need your Prayers.
Sounds like working the 1st Step of AA "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives are unmanageable" I been practicing that for years and this video reminds me to do it with all my sins. Thank you
DON'T GIVE UP !
DON'T GIVE UP !
DON'T GIVE UP !
This is a wonderful video.
But I have to say, being bad at directions isn't a sin. It's a lack of prudence, it requires humility and help to improve, it is a weakness. But not a sin. For it to be a real sin it has to be intentional. Getting lost isn't intentional.
For the areas of life where we are imprudent or where we need to grew in greater excellence and virtue, yes it takes a growing sense of humility so that we can become more reliant on God's grace to guide us and help us to grow. I love that he mentioned the Jesus Prayer.
Thank you Brother I needed to hear this. Please pray for my priest in ICU
My priest was able to come home! Thank you all who prayed for his recovery!
@@paulhill7726 Thank you God.
Deliver me Lord from the bondage of self!
As always, right on time. God bless you Father.
I needed to hear this
Always Care.
C-onfession
A-doration
R-osary
E-ucharist
Thank you Father! ALWAYS good timing - I went to first Saturday Reconciliation this morning and the more I confess the same sin, the more I sometimes feel that it's (the nature of the sin) ingrained in me. I know that it does not define me but that it is something I need to pray about and work on. Thanks for the gentle reminders!!
Thanks Father Mark Mary. Thank you.
Thank you Fr. Mark-Mary, I would imagine I speak for many when I say that I really needed to hear this today.
I believe that the gift of confession is one of the most precious gifts we Catholics have. My Protestant friends don’t quite get it. They say ‘I go straight to the source.’
By consciously verbalizing our sins to our priest we get to recognize these weaknesses. Something you really don’t consciously get when you just think about your sin.
Knowing that you are bringing the same sin to confession ‘yet again’ brings this weakness to the forefront of our consciousness.
If you have not been to confession in some time, don’t wait. You will not regret it when you leave the confessional with a renewed feeling of lightness and energy.
I have a reminder on my phone. As soon as I’m finished my confession and back in the car I move my calendar reminder out four weeks. I always try my best to go at least once every four weeks.
4:41 unclinging to the lie that "we got this"
6:17 prayer
7:44 let the word of God soak in
8:15 trust in the help of others in the church
Oh my, your message brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much.
I need to let go of my self reliance and cling to Jesus! Hits home for me in a real way. Thank you my brother!
I totally get the frustration with the GW bridge! Was just there last weekend! I'll pray for you! Also, Google maps works better than mapquest IMHO. But honestly, with the GW? I'll PRAY for YOU. Ask St Christopher, and St Nicholas and St Raphael to help you. I really will pray for you, Fr Mark-Mary.
I really needed to hear this Father.
Thank you so much Fr. I have struggled with the same sins for years and only recently realized how much my self reliance....insidious pride...fed into that cycle. I literally just took notes on this video. Its as though you were speaking directly to my heart.
Thank you!
Thank you father. That prayer is wonderful. God bless you for the light.
When I cling to Jesus, I remember that my clinging is his clinging through me to him. After all, all strength comes from him and so does all goodness so if you ask him to cling to you where you cannot cling then you are clinging to him everywhere.
Longing for Lord's love & mercy and living the truth of his presence in holiness relieves from despair.
We all fall but we are the few that know the way back up. Our sins were paid for and we all have been shown the way up.
That is the perfect facial expression on the thumbnail of this video for how I feel about when it happens to me, as it does often
Amen!
Hi,father. We need a lot of prayers, I’m so deeply saddened for all what it is in this time
I so appreciate your failure with directions!!!
Totally unrelated but very funny story - when we moved to our new house (now 20 years ago, no smart phones, no gps), my dh lovingly wrote down directions to every important place in town - the grocery store, church, library, bank, etc on pretty, colorful index cards. I used them faithfully the first 2-3 wks. I was figuring it all out! I wasn't stupid.
Then the town switched two one way streets to go the other direction! Couldn't believe it. My dh told me at dinner and even the kids laughed as he said the town did it just to mess with me. To this day I think they did as I can't see any other reason.
I got lost the very next day and in my anxiety couldn't even remember where I lived. I was alone, so I couldn't ask my kids. I was in tears and then I realized - my house was near the local high school! I was saved; I nonchalantly walked in the next gas station, asked if could get directions to the high school. No one laughed or thought it was odd; the gentleman even said, 'no problem, it can be hard to find' - he wrote them down (avoiding the one way streets!) and I got home safe and sound.
Now, I have schedule confession this weekend :-)
Thank you, Father. We are the Body of Christ and need each other to survive. Amen.
I need to go to confession. I haven't went in a couple of years. I will go to confession before Easter this year.
Thank you Fr. Mark-Mary. I needed to hear this.
Thank you, really needed this, I too keep confessing the same sin ☹️🤦🏻♀️
Yes. You're right. You're confessing also hear. It is possible to get rid of all sins, even venial ones, by God's grace. Grace is more powerful than any temptation. We sin because we find it difficult to deny ourselves. Now, by God's grace we can win all temptations always, immediately and easily. The secret is by growing in our love for God. The more we love God, the easier it becomes for us to win temptations, please God and do his will joyfully: ruclips.net/video/5XmeGWZhV44/видео.html
God bless you and thank you for this video Father Mark Mary! You give inspiration, and I'll give you good directions around NY/NJ👍😁
Amen Father l need you Jesus for your help and support for Virtue 📿🙏🏻🕊
Very consoling and liberating! Thank you brother
I'm with you Fr. I'm bad with directions.
Noooooo, not the Holland Tunnel 😱😱 . Im sorry that it also cost you time & money (frustrating!!). This made for an Powerfully, Important video. Thank you for relating this story.
Make sure you have a local guide if you come to Brownsville TX. Wrong lane on the Interstate on your way to Holy Family parish will trap you in a lane to Mexico.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOu father and Our Good Lord JESUS CHRIST and mama MARY!!!!!! THANK YOU! U R A BEAUTIFUL PERSON!!! GOD BLESS YOU!! Please pray for KOBE AND GIGI AND FAMILIES HURT!!! PLEASE
Sometimes I feel like going to a priest who does not know me because of this problem, same sins again. It's very embarrassing. Pray for me please
I SO needed this video! Praise be Jesus Christ! JA
Thanks, Fr Mark-Mary!
Have never thought of seeking assistance...thank you!
But still have no idea how to have one, and whether I'm dare enough to confess 🙏
Simply excellent!
Thank you, for this timely video! This IS what I needed. I am going to copy Brother's Isiah's prayer so that I can recite it often.
I would have sent a private message if I could because the Sacrement of reconciliation has always been so freeing to me. I had a recent experienced though of confessing the same sin for the 3rd time. I’m really trying to work on this and returning weekly to confession was to humble myself and keep working on it because I truly have a contrite heart. I left the confessional feeling worse than when I went in. The impatience I felt was so shaming to me I was tearful when I left and had a very heavy heart. Fortunately for me we have Adoration of Blessed Sacrement during the time our priest is hearing confession so I was able to give that sadness to our Lord. I was reminded that Jesus knows everything about me and loves me completely. Perhaps Father was having a hard day. He is replacing our priest while he is away. Don’t think I’ll return to confession again though until our regular priest returns.
We will pray for you. 🙏🙏🙏
Remember, the priest is just a "veil" for Jesus, so even if you don't "feel" like you have had a good confession please remember you confessed to Jesus. I have been in your situation and this thought helped me a lot.
I have been shamed in confession also to the point I cried also, it really deterred me from going again with any trust and damaged me spiritually. I reached out to another Priest who reassured me and since I go back to confession , I have had some wonderful and merciful Priests since then. Even though we fail we never fail God when we reach out to him- we only fail if we don’t rely on him for mercy. Raise up your bad experience for the salvation of souls that way nothing is wasted, and it will please God. Shame is a bully, Grace is a shield , that quote is by Ann Voscamp . Keep going to confession and you are a beautiful most loved child of God. Peace, hope, love🙏🏽
@@katkat2340 That is an amazing quote, "Shame is a bully, Grace is a shield." Please pray for me. God bless and take care! Viva Cristo Rey y La Virgen de Guadalupe!
Carmen, yeah, I had a bad confession once too. It was quite damaging. However, we have to forgive and not let pride make the situation in our heart even worse.
Priests are human, too, and can fall short, unfortunately. God bless them, though! 🙂
Praise God for you and your videos. The last video with the prayer about asking the Father to take from us what we are not strong enough to give. And now this, how to cling to Jesus. Thank you Father Mark-Mary.
Thank you brother, God's timing is perfect. I so needed to hear this. May God's love increase in your heart. Keep on clinging!
Totally irrelevant comment, but the hair and the beard are the perfect awesome-friar semi-biker length. Rocking it!!!
Fr. Mark Mary you have become such an inspiration for me! ❤ and prayers for you, Kristy 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
God bless you father❤ thank you ❤❤❤❤🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thank you father...thru you God answered multiple questions I've been mulling over and over and over. God bless you father
Thank you for this video, Father. I think this is your most powerful video yet. Cling to Jesus!
Two Scripture verses that have helped me tremendously were Sirach 5:4 "Do not say 'I Sinned, and what happened to me? For the Most High is slow to anger. Do not be so confident of atonement that you add sin to sin. Do not say "His mercy is great, he will forgive the multitude of my sins, for both mercy and wrath are with Him and his anger rests on sinners."
1 thessalonians 4:3 "For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you obtain from unchasity.
Who ever disregards this, disregards not man, but God."
Two major verses that helped me have better decision making skills! Let's keep praying for each other! 😁 im praying for you!
Thank you for this - I added a new playlist titled "Prayers" just for this video, will continue adding prayers to it in the future. I listen to various Catholic playlists while on long drives, or when working around the house or out in the yard. Thanks again for all you do. God bless you.
This is just what I have needed lately. Thank you !
Don't feel bad. New York is hard to navigate for anyone. And traffic is terrible.
I needed this message! Thank you!
We all get lost at times but through his light we will find and we will be found.
🤯 Wow. Great video. THANK YOU Father Mark-Mary!
This is definitely for me
Thank you so much Father. You are so gentle with us, making it easy to run to Jesus.
Lord Jesus have mercy for me for I am a sinner
love this song
Needed this. Great video and advice. Thank you! Happy Friday
This is what i needed thank you gods using you so much and i trusted god something ive struggled with for so long with his word and made him pround celebrate yourself!!
Awesome JESUS CHRIST bless!!! Needed this video 🙏
Thank you!!!!!
Excellent Fr M/M.
As St. Paul said, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak". In one way we are unlike Christ and His Mother in which we are conceived in original sin not in a State of Grace we are fallen sinners. Even after we are Baptized born again in which the original sin is forgiven and we enter into a State of Grace made a people of God we are still under the effects of original sin therefore we still struggle with our sins in a cycle of falling from Grace repenting for our sins and being restored to God's Grace until the last hour of our lives. God places no restriction on the num!ber of times we repent for the same sins we commit over and over again which is St. Peter came to the Lord and asked, "Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times? 'No, not seven times, 'Jesus replied, 'but seventy times seven!". Put that together with what St. Paul stated about the the spirit is willing but the flesh being weak we we all succumb to our sins even those which we repeat over and over again in a struggle to overcome them.
This is how I see it the penitent already knows what they had done was wrong which is why they confess their sins they already acknowledge their guilt for having committed these sins. The Priest should be like Christ and forgive them their sins absolving them. In my opinion giving advise to the penitent is a waste of time because they already know what they done was wrong and therefore they already know what they need to do in order to prevent themselves from committing those sins again but as St. Paul stated the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I think it would be better for the Priest to listen rather giving them advise which could be taken by the penitent as judging them. So listen to their confession withholding your judgement and absolve them of their sins and prescribe their penance.
Thank you. Praise God
I will pray for everyone and please pray for me
An excellent prayer.Thank you.
Thank you Fr Mark Mary.
Exactly what I needed to hear, thank you Father
Great insight Fr. God bless you and your family. 😌🙏
Thank you for the practical steps!
thanks Fr
Thank you. Your videos are priceless to me. Thank you
POWERFUL.
Amen.💜✝🙏All prayer is powerful but I think the most powerful prayers are from those who struggle in the same areas who have the same weaknesses and who have been through the same types situations as the ones are praying for.
Thank you, Father! This sounds like the same first steps that Alcoholics and Drug Addicts have to take. Beautiful!
Thank you! Amazing wisdom words
Thanks!
Thank you, James!
Thank you 🙏 for this message
Thank you for this one!!! This was very helpful for me I appreciate it very much.
I'm going to confession multiple times per week at this point. Letting go of lust feels impossible. Despair and self loathing permeates my every waking hour and haunts my dreams.
Ive repented and im crying as we speak i need help 😞
Pray for conversion to Christianity for all the world's people.
Perfect video!