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Änσnymσus

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Re: Confession and scrupulosity
« Reply #30 on: June 24, 2021, 12:09:58 PM »
Quote from: Änσnymσus on June 24, 2021, 12:05:36 PM
This is not correct.  The first general confession must be for sins committed since attaining the age of reason or since baptism.  Any general confessions after that should begin with sins committed since the previous general confession.
You cannot just "pick and choose" during a general confession.  Otherwise, this is simply a normal confession where you are confessing some past sins.
You are not obligated to confess a sin that has already been confessed and absolved. Though with general confessions it is recommended to confess all the sins but if you committed a sin that you don't wish to discuss and its already been absolved in the past you don't have to confess it.
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Re: Confession and scrupulosity
« Reply #31 on: June 24, 2021, 04:08:47 PM »
Quote from: Änσnymσus on June 24, 2021, 12:09:58 PM
You are not obligated to confess a sin that has already been confessed and absolved. Though with general confessions it is recommended to confess all the sins but if you committed a sin that you don't wish to discuss and its already been absolved in the past you don't have to confess it.
You are if you are performing a general confession.  You need to review what a general confession is.
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Re: Confession and scrupulosity
« Reply #32 on: June 25, 2021, 03:52:54 PM »
(OP here) Thanks for the helpful responses.

I guess, for me, the question boils down to: if I have the desire to confess everything possible at my next confession but, my confessor is telling me not to confess any past sins (even if I may have forgotten to confess them previously) other than those from the previous week or, anyway, curtails what I wish to confess, does that still count as omitting things from the confession? I would think that it wouldn't, considering the circuмstances but, I basically want to avoid unworthily receiving Holy Communion, thereby, committing a sacrilege.

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Re: Confession and scrupulosity
« Reply #33 on: June 25, 2021, 04:16:58 PM »
Quote from: Änσnymσus on June 25, 2021, 03:52:54 PM
 I would think that it wouldn't, considering the circuмstances but, I basically want to avoid unworthily receiving Holy Communion, thereby, committing a sacrilege.
You're correct. Make obeying your confessor an act of trust in God. 
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Re: Confession and scrupulosity
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2021, 01:06:01 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on June 21, 2021, 09:36:52 PM
So, with this example, if your "bad-mouthing" involved calumny or detraction, then that would be detraction and calumny.  But if it's something short of that, such as "boy he gives lousy sermons" or "that priest has a bad temper" or "I really don't like him." ... which is typically what is meant by bad-mouthing rather than "this priest is having an affair with a female parishioner".

So just to clarify this; if you encounter a priest who had, for a lack of a better term, a "bad bedside manner" in that he was, for example, inexplicably or unnecessarily rude or condescending, would expressing frustration over something like that by saying "I don't really like that particular priest; I found him to be uncompassionate and uncharitable" on the basis of his personality be considered bad-mouthing or a sin of any sort?
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