Now that you have fallen once, it will be easier to fall again, do not become overconfident or lax once you have been to Confession.

Pray daily for the graces needed to keep purity, and seek to avoid, and know how to avoid the occasions of these sins which you can easily overlook.

It can be easy to overlook lesser temptations of the mind and dismiss them, and then neglecting this fall and fall farther.

Yes read the desert fathers and saints!

And avoid the world's entertainment!

and thanks for nothing guest #2.

Real charitable reply, bud.  This is the internet.  Trolls are common.  The first answer you received was qualified and rightfully concerned.  You clarified your comment further on, but considering the good possibility that you could have been a troll,and you posted it in the anonymous comment section, that was a fair reply and he recommended a priest.  "thanks for nothing" ?  really ?  A priest sounds like real good advice to me.  He's the only one to forgive the mortal sins you committed.  1.5 hours to get to a traditional priest with such serious sin and the distress you were experiencing?  No contest with that decision.  Instead you took out your frustration on someone who was being cautious while trying to help. For all you know it could have been a cleric who responded.  Water under the bridge now but we'll all pray for you.  

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If you have made an act of Contrition and begged God for his mercy, you most certainly will not be burning in hell, maybe in Purgatory, but not in Hell.

Saying an act of contrition doesn't forgive mortal sins unless you have the grace of perfect contrition. So if your contrition is not perfect, if you die you will go to hell.

If he is sincerely sorry for his sins and intends the earliest possible Confession he will not go to Hell. Stop your stupid "theological" nit-picking.

He is right, you must have perfect contrition.

How do you know you have perfect contrition ?- You do not, you will never know. Simply believing you are truly sorry and resolving to go to confession is not going to cut it.

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with the good possibility that you are a shill, but the remote chance you are not, the best answer is for you to make an appt w/ a trad priest.  

The topics you introduced are inappropriate for discussion,  You need a priest.

Please fellow Cathinfo members, don't feed this,  A priest will handle it, if it's legit.

The person who posted this should probably practice what he preaches and stay off the internet.

I am so sick of this "Don't listen to anybody here, you need a priest.' garbage.

You don't need a priest, you need a shrink.

I honestly think the issue is not that you think he needs a priest, you just don't like people posting anything that would go against your point of view.

If someone posts asking for advice, who are you to shut them down ?

????????????    I read your comments and try to give you the benefit of the doubt, but lately wow.  You often cause trouble in innocent situations for bizarre reasons. Are you  dry drunk or something?  What is the matter with you? No wonder so many people don't like you.  You're as overreactive as a girl but with a cutthroat mean streak.. To heck with the others you're the one who needs a priest. Oh, never mind, you just said you're tired of that 'priest garbage'.   God help you with your mean heart, man.  You're a mess.

Hello everyone,

please forgive this crazy post.

I became a Catholic this year, and it is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me.

Before I became a Catholic I was a drug addict, a liar and a thief. I was addicted to opiates, cocaine, and pornography. I would do anything to please myself, and our Lord in his infinite and unfathomable mercy called me to be a part of his Church.

This morning I was on my way to the church to pray the Rosary. The devil put impure thoughts in my mind and I acted on them. It is 2:00 where I live and by noon I was drunk, looking at pornography, and impure with myself several times.

I want to do Gods will. This is the first time that this has happened. I have completely relapsed today into my former way of life.

Please, anything you might have to say about these things. Anything. I want to be a good Catholic, and am going to confession tomorrow. Anything you might have, any encouragement or insight from your own life. I cannot go to confession right now because I am still drunk and only about 15 minutes ago snapped out of my stupidity.

I am terrified.

Please help me.


-A wretched sinner

I was thinking about you just now. Had an impression about you...that God allowed your fall, in part because of His great love for you. When you had fallen, the humility and feelings of nothingness draws the Lord towards you for He is infinitely repulsed by the proud. In fact, since the Lord loves you so much; he wants your interior to be first and foremost one of dependence and a turning towards to Him (not creatures)...as you would your best friend...and your God.

Not constantly being aware of the necessity of Christ and our nothingness without Him -- over time; we all fall into a lackadaisical sense of going through the motions; and not giving Him our best. Leads to not living out the truth that all that we are and can become is only through His gratuitous grace. It is our sin that we can truly call our own.

It is first and foremost: 1.)Satan, that is dragging you down to not get up. He is the "accuser" subtely trying to influence you that it is no good to get up and to "go ahead and stay in sin for another day or two...it won't matter anyways." and 2.)your own pride. Not about baseline, for your baseline may actually be more "humble" than most here. However, when God is involved; He may want a higher degree of holiness from you than from me (let's say); again because He loves you in particular and may in fact be related to a higher degree of holiness intended for you in Heaven.

Your crosses, when united to the Cross of Christ has supernatural merit. Suffering souls carrying faithfully their crosses in perserverance in union with the Masses said around the world are protecting this world to a great degree from it all ending.

If you suffer loneliness or bewilderment because you see others in this world happy or glorified; remember Christ's words to those of this world: "Woe to you that are filled, for you shall hunger; woe to you that now laugh, for you shall mourn and weep." -- In the big picture, it is Christ's final neglect and creeping sign of damnation when you see people in this world filled in all of their desires, riches, and pleasures --  and in particular when it is acted upon in violation to the maxims of our holy religion leading to their will choosing a Heaven on earth in exchange for Hell for all eternity.

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If you have made an act of Contrition and begged God for his mercy, you most certainly will not be burning in hell, maybe in Purgatory, but not in Hell.

Saying an act of contrition doesn't forgive mortal sins unless you have the grace of perfect contrition. So if your contrition is not perfect, if you die you will go to hell.

Wow! It seems that BOD and BOB are acceptable in certain situations for non-Catholics but a simple Act of Contrition is problematic in an emergency situation for a Catholic?