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Offline Incredulous

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Re: Delaying Confession
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2021, 08:35:12 AM »
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    • Consider all the glamor, politics, temptations, intrigues and distractions surrounding the president....



    And through all of it... the most important thing boiled down to his last Confession.

    His eternal destiny was decided the moment he asked his secret service agents to set his priestly appointment for Confession.
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    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Delaying Confession
    « Reply #16 on: March 29, 2021, 08:43:18 AM »
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    • Quote from: Stubborn on March 29, 2021, 05:45:46 AM
    Contrition and confession...



    Father Wathen!
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    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Delaying Confession
    « Reply #17 on: March 29, 2021, 09:07:03 AM »
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    • In another sermon, Fr. Wathen says: "...If anyone falls into mortal sin, the first obligation of his life is to go to confession, he's not allowed to linger in this condition. As soon as possible I repeat, he should go to confession".
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    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    Re: Delaying Confession
    « Reply #18 on: March 29, 2021, 09:19:00 AM »
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    • Quote from: Incredulous on March 29, 2021, 08:35:12 AM
    His eternal destiny was decided the moment he asked his secret service agents to set his priestly appointment for Confession.
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    I've never heard of this. What is this story you are referring to?
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    Re: Delaying Confession
    « Reply #19 on: March 29, 2021, 10:21:39 AM »
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    • Quote from: Yeti on March 29, 2021, 09:19:00 AM
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    I've never heard of this. What is this story you are referring to?
    The story is pieced together in accounts found in the body of this blog.
    JFK's last Confession
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    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Delaying Confession
    « Reply #20 on: March 29, 2021, 12:29:45 PM »
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    • CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Attrition (newadvent.org)

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    [color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Wherefore attrition, the [Trent] in Canon v, Sess. XIV, declares: "If any man assert that attrition . . . is not a [/color]true[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] and a profitable sorrow; that it does not prepare the [/color]soul[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)] for grace, but that it makes a man a [/color]hypocrite[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)], yea, even a greater sinner, let him be [/color]anathema[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]"[/color]
    Fear of damnation is enough for absolution, and attrition is in fact probably the best way to seek true contrition, because it puts your soul back in order. 

    As long as you desire to have your sins absolved and intend to do the penance prescribed by the priest, you have the right disposition for confession and there's no good reason to delay it.
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