No it's when someone else takes advantage of you and your inoccent and they use you against your will . That's worse than personal wilful sin. Also drugs and alcohol leave us defenseless and than we really fall into unintentional sin.
Oh for crying out loud. It's called a guilt trip. You are listening to your parent's voice, not any god. Do you feel "filthy and empty" because you sometimes feel attracted to somebody? That's just life as a live being. No big deal. if the god you believe in thinks you deserve eternal punishment for that then he is a monster. If you think you deserve eternal punishment for that then go to a therapist.
My dearest prayers go out to those souls who die unexpectedly without having a chance to confess a mortal sin. May the Lord have mercy on their souls and find true repentance deep within their hearts.
Too late, why do Catholics believe in purgatory? You have your life in the hands of a false teacher! You’re last breath is final, mercy on you for not searching the scriptures!
It is too late to pray for the dead. I pray, rather, that more people that are alive will repent and come to Christ (Ephesians 6 :19). After death, there is no use praying to the dead (praying to saints) nor praying for the dead, you can only hope that they will go to heaven, but their eternal destiny is set when they die. In Galatians 4:19, Paul has a burden to pray for believers in the Churches of Galatia (Galatians 1:2). In Ephesians 1:16-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21, Paul prays for the believers that are in the Church in Ephesus. I have prayed the prayers in Ephesians for myself, and it is like getting a doctorate in theology, the revelations that I received transformed my life, the lives of relatives and the lives of neighbors. For example, I made the decision to pray these prayers the entire year of 2006. God revealed to my conscience to sell my house and buy it back 5 years later. I sold the house and bought it back for 1/3rd the price.
The bible says that all sins are mortal. Romans 6:23 says: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, there are no venial sins. All sins are mortal. Only by faith in the accomplished works of Christ at the cross, can a man be saved forever. See John 3:16...and I quote: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
@@virginiafonacier8795 When we have Jesus living in us then we believe that the Lord Jesus is our savior. I’ve subscribed to your TH-cam channel and now press the subscribe button in Jesus name
Can a believer saved by grace, born of God, commit mortal sin? Mortal sin is obviously an unrepentant act of sin in a practiced nature. And if so, how do you deal with 1 John 3:9 with the greek saying those born of God are not ABLE to keep on sinning? If those redeemed are not able to practice sin, how do they commit mortal sin???? This dilemma comes around again in 5:18. Again those born of God do not practice sin. Paul says - 1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit. You need to ask God to save you. Only then will he give you a new heart and renewed mind. Do you believe the Gospel? Joel 2:32 ESV - And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Since August I've prayed a rosary every day and gone to daily Mass. All my prayers have been that my six children (and one daughter in law) would get into a state of grace because I fear the coming chastisement. They had all drifted away, as young adults do. I put it in Mary's hands. My Christmas gift this year is that they all went to confession today (Dec. 26) and I'm so happy I could cry. Pulled up this video as a way to help them.
This video made cried because I've committed sin that I couldnt forgive myself. I felt I am not worthy of forgiveness. After watched this I realised how much God love me and how wonderful His love is. His Grace is beyond my imagination. Thank you for this message. Now I have courage to go to confession and come back to Him.
Okay so cool story - I just got into a fight with my brother over a petty matter and I was regretting it as I walked to my room. Almost as soon as I felt this regret, my iPod lights up with the notification for this video. Weird
I heard a preacher say "you can't outsin God's grace." I like that saying a lot, and it keeps the door to God open to me. (I'm not Catholic but I learn a lot from Fr. Mike and his talks.)
It's better if you start your research about the Catholic Church and find God. Catholic Church is the true Holy and Apostolic Church and the beauty of it can be seen. I shall pray for you brother. Pax Christi
@@austinjy Catholicism is counterfeit Christianity. Jesus never gave a name to His church. No church can save a man. Cause salvation is by faith in the accomplished work of Christ at the cross for us. 1 Corinthians 15, verses 1-4, Ephesians 2: 8,9, Galatians 2:16, Romans 6:23. Believe in Jesus Christ and be saved today and forever.
Thank you father, 😭😭 i just realize that God will still love you and give you grace even if you turn your back to him doing mortal sin 😢 GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!!!!
VocalMaster Repent and confess your sins to the Lord right now from where you are at... You don't have to wait and confess to another finite sinner (Priest). This is something man made up. The bible or Jesus himself never told anyone you have to go to "Confessions" to repent and in order to be saved and forgiven (Give me proof with scriptures if you disagree). The bible says the second coming of Jesus will come like a thief in the night... You don't know when Jesus is coming again it can be anytime. repent while you still can don't wait for a false approval of a pharisee... sorry priest... you get my point...
yes I agree but I still went to confession anyway because I really enjoy it. I think it's good for us to sit down with someone of faith in any religion to talk about our sins and pray to Jesus together. so that why I still go any way
That's heresy. Scripture tells us to "confess our sins to one another". Jesus told St. Peter "Whoevers sins you forgive are forgiven, and whoevers sins you retain are retained." Why would Jesus give the power to forgive sins to His Apostles if He didn't intend for them to forgive sins? Makes no sense. Jesus created the Sacrament of Confession, and wants us to go confess our sins to the priest so that we can receive absolution. We can confess our sins directly to God in what we call an "Act of Contrition" prayer, but it still requires us to go to Confession as soon as we are able to.
You shouldn't agree with him. What Nj Nj said is totally against what the Bible says and what the Church teaches. We go to Confession because Jesus created the Sacrament as a means to be absolved and grow in graces. We do not go merely because we enjoy it. (Although it is good that you do enjoy it!)
Mark 2:7-8 (KJV) 7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? 8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Pharisee, Jew, and protestants still thinking who can forgive sins but God only? Jesus ask you Nj Nj and protestant ...Why reason ye these things in your hearts? sorry protestants.
I have been trying to avoid looking at Porn. Not easy to do. Every time I do it I feel guilty, and feel like God hates what I did. I am a single man, so you probably get this sin from a lot of guys. I am trying to break the cycle, but it is very difficult.
Matt B Go to the confessional the sooner than you can, with the Grace that you will recover, it will be easier. And also the security that the Grace gives, imagine when you have the Grace you're sure to go to heaven!!! Do you understand? a lot of your fears will disappear.
Matt B it is hard to break. W.e. accesory you use to watch it. Put it away at night. Pray and read yoyr Bible tgen pray again before bed. Stay on Gods path and it will be eassier. Activate the HolyvSpirit within you.
Try giving something up, fasting from something you enjoy. I did this with sweets ( fatty sweet food) and found that combined with prayer this fasting helped me very much in overcoming this exact sin. God bless, and run to him with all your heart, and he will save you
whenever you get the temptation, look on youtube for some videos to keep your mind focused - e.g. check out this documentary of Our Lady: th-cam.com/video/2lA5NUHqC88/w-d-xo.html& - Just keep looking at these types of videos to keep you occupied.
Grammer is horrible Father Mike you brought me to tears. I walked away from the church as a child and stayed lost for 40 years. As a child with a childs brain I could not understand. I have always been searching, Sep 30, 19 I meet with my pastor for a deep confession and a rejoining of our church.
God Bless you, man. I hope you've been able to reconcile yourself with God and his Church. I know it's been a year but, I'll include you in my rosary today.
Had tears in my eyes seeing and listening to you Father, the last thought crossing my mind was, it’s like seeing and listening to Jesus, may God bless you Father
I'm a Protestant. This video was good. I would confess my sin first to God through Jesus then I'd talk to either the minister of the church I attend or one of the elders. Repentance follows and I would stop living in that particular sin. I'm so grateful for grace which sets us free to live light without the burden of slavery to sin. Living a good life feels good too :)
This is how it should be! Even you are not Catholic, you are doing what the Bible commands, that we confess to one another, ask the elders to pray for us. The Lord bless you for keeping His word.
Your Protestant church doesn’t have the blessing of Christ to forgive or retain sin passed through succession. Your sins are retained, despite confessing to your church leadership
@@alextison9707I don’t think he was saying he’s asking the pastor for forgiveness. I think he means he prays to God for forgiveness, and asks for prayer and advice from his pastor.
You better not have any bad thoughts or else you'll lose your salvation. You better not struggle with lust or masturbation or you will really lose your salvation. I was about to take rcia classes until I realized how salvation wasn't possible through the Catholic Church
@benmiddleton9984 Bro. Be careful with the salvation-in-a-box packaging. You are to work out YOUR salvation in fear and trembling. The Catholic church merely provides resources to help you abstain, guide back to the narrow path, and tools to help you keep your weaponry sharp. Don't throw baby Jesus out with the bath water. If you are particularly pleased with hearing what you want to hear, maybe the protestant road will suit you. But if you want to experience Christianity in its most true form, come on home to Rome. Yours truly, A DEEPLY PROTESTANT CONVERT
And just because we commit the same sins over and over again, which we all do, we all struggle with different things, and we all fall, but what's important is that you go to confession and truley mean that you're sorry and do not want to sin again. If you happen to commit that same sin again, you are still forgiven becasue you tried, and God loves you even when you fail. What is NOT true repentance is when you go to confession knowing full well you PLAN on committing the same sin again. And you're just confessing so you can get forgiven until you sin, or so that you can recieve communion. Or skipping confession altogether because you know you will commit sin again. Yes we all fall, but with Gods grace, the longer we work hard and trulwy repent, eventually His grace will save us from that particular sin. He saved me from drugs. After years. And im back home in the church and I go to confession weekly because I'm human and I fall in other ways. But don't let anyone tell you confession is pointless or anything like that. Every time we go and r truly sorry, we recieve more grace and get closer to the perfection God's molding us into.
@@benmiddleton9984Salvation is absolutely possible! I’m praying that you will take RCIA classes. In the Agony in the Garden Jesus prayed that you would be a part of THIS Church. Everyone struggles with sin. And God wants to help us so we don’t have to struggle anymore. I love you and I’m praying for you. Repent and believe in the Gospel.
"I confess to the Almighty God, I recognize in front of my brothers and sisters in Christ, that I have sinned in thoughts, in words, by actions and by omissions...Yes I have truly sinned. That's why that I implore the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the saints and you too my brothers and sisters to pray for me the Lord our God...Amen"
Well said Father.... way to go in explaining the difference between the two and how grave even Venial Sin is and how it wears you down over time and weakens you
Thankyou Father Mike , your hundreds of talks really help clarify issues and help me see more clearly problems that I have struggled with. I am sure I am rather older than most people who watch you but you have helped me to see that the Catholic Faith is full of kindness and compassion , not a position I held when I was younger and I never thought I would go near a Catholic Church let alone be going through the process of becoming a Catholic. thankyou .
wow. I can't stop crying ryt now but I need to post this though I've NEVER posted on a public forum. for a long time now I've been going so far away from god and the farther i went the more difficult it was to even approach him . It was so hard to lose my best friend and my father and my rock. today I take my phone to text someone to ask for prayers and I actually type out Is there a point of no return with sin?.. but I couldn't send it cuz I knew the theoretical answer. but it's so difficult to believe that when u feel like filth. I try to pray and on failing I come on TH-cam on an impulse and i find this. Your grace can still find me where I am! I can't thank u enough fr mike.. love from India.
+Philothea Rachel ,I will be praying for you as well, don't let shame lay the foundations of a wall between you and Our Father,Jesus Christ . Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and strengthen you. We are all human. When we have acted poorly or caused pain to another and our Lord , it is sometimes very hard to " show your face" you just want to hide away. Be not afraid to go to God ,let your burdens and tears go . Return lighter ,free of the weight of sin , thankful for forgiveness and happy to move forward! May God grant you peace, protect you and keep you close. My prayers will be with you. * edited for grammer
I’m reconnecting with God. And I want to thank you for your videos Fr Schmitz (I’m sorry if I just butchered the spelling of your last name). Anyway your videos have been such a bright light shining the way on my path back to Him. Thank you 🙏🏼
Tysm, father. I have been agonizing over sin and doing things that I didn't know were grave matters at the time. It's so frustrating because some people will say "that's a grave matter, therefore it's a mortal sin"...and I'm like...well I want to say sorry to God, but I honestly didn't know. If I had known, I wouldn't have done it. The worst was entering into a civil marriage with my husband, not realizing that as baptized and confirmed Catholics, it was required that it be sacramental. Didn't know any better at the time, and are going through convalidation now....but man. I was panicking thinking this was a state of mortal sin and I shouldn't have been taking Eucharist....but it's not in this case, right? It can't be mortal if you didn't realize it was a sin when you did it and are taking steps to fix it now that you know, right?
Thank you Fr. Mike for this teaching. I thank God for your work. All praises, honor and glory to God!!!!🙌 God bless you and everyone who listens to this teaching.🙏
Thank God this video popped up at the right time. I will hopefully be scheduling a confession this Saturday and making things right with God. I thank you for making this video for me. God bless.
The only reason blasphemy is the unpardonable is because you can’t ask for forgiveness for that sin, thankfully every sin can be forgiven by the lord if you’re TRULY sorry and asking for forgiveness, not for forgiveness out of fear of loosing heaven.
@@toxbic That's a kind of weird question, because the idea of mortal sin is biblical even if non-catholic christians reject that notion. Its the Catholics who make the mortal and venial sin notion explicit in the church, but non-catholic christians do not adhere to that but will somewhat acknowledge that there are seriously grave sins. So its a Christian concept, not all christians adhere to that concept. Hope that helps dear friend in Christ ❤️ Venial sin in the Bible: All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. 1 John 5:17 Mortal sin in the Bible: If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life-to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. 1 John 5:16-17 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Colossians 3:5-8 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21
What I liked about this video is the grace part. So feeling guilty afterwards is God's grace working on us, that's all I need honestly. Works won't bring us into heaven, only God's grace will. It's reassuring especially when you do indeed sin.
Your ministry is truly helping me understand things as a former protestant. I was taught that the unforgivable or deadly sin was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. This makes so much sense
Oh Priest! Thank God for you! All your videos have come to me the moment I committed a mortal sin and I am like "I wish I saw your videos sooner". I have to go to confession ASAP. Thanks again so much!
The story about the matador is so accurate.. I have return to my faith in God a couple of years by accepting his call. I have been to general confession but after I would realize I forget this and that. 🙄😭 I felt bad. I even made a list because I do not want to forget but ended forgetting the list. I pray God would forgive me...
I too made a list and sometimes forgot to say them but I understand from the holy spirit that God sees and knows all, in making the list he sees that, bring it next time, God bless you
Gabby Cheever Regarding scrupulousity, it's good to meditate on God's love for the individual. For spiritual reading, I'd recommend St. John of the Cross' Romance on Creation. A translation can be found easily online.
Can you do a video on sins of thought? That is something I struggle with everyday. I have a certain thought and think that I sinned. This would be helpful also. Thank you.
That can drive a person crazy because it's impossible to think about not thinking, which is basically an unswitchable demand that you're setting for yourself.
Your a wonderful priest and perfect you know how to talk to us with kindness and wisdom and. You don't give us fear..a priest at my church screams and makes me feel fear and afraid to talk to him..I converted to catholic. I need to know I did the right thing..my health stops me alot from Mass...I took care of my priest in this home till he died..and we had mass and Communion hear all the time...but I pray every day or rosery..I want to go all the time....the whether affects my health...Amen I confess every day father Mike.
Fr thank you for this message! Your explanations of the different types of sins: venial and mortal is necessary. You are inspiring-beautiful ending as well.
I've been trying to get rid of a sin I've been committing for many years, this year I started to get closer with God. Everytime I commit this sin I confess, I feel awful, but I'm making progress.
Thanks Fr. ......! I pray for myself and all my family members living and deceased. God and We ourselves should keep away from all sins and wrong doings which will lead us into hells and death and away from God and his love and blessings and mercy and protection. Fr. Please pray for us and all who needs prayers, especially all babies and boys and girls.
Thanks for the video Fr. Mike, If there isn't already one, it would be really nice if you could make a video specifically on the sin of lust, and how to tell when you're just being tempted and when you're giving in. I don't know if anyone else would find it helpful, but I know I've been struggling with that a lot lately.
If it involves prolonged staring at a person or images so as to inspire arousal, then it is in the realm of lust. If it is simply a momentary glance at someone who is attractive and then a turning away, it is not lust. A very good tip against this sin is weekly fasting and daily mass and reception of the Eucharist. Also, living with a Christian roomate or someone who you can pray with together in the evenings can help enormously.
Thank you soooooooo.... much Fr. for this relevant talk Fr.. I know of so so so many Catholics taking their Sunday obligation so lightly for flimsy reasons. God bless you and protect you.
okay I just finished watching this video and guess what before I watched this I asked God to confirm to me if I should go to confession because it's been a couple of weeks that I'm hesitating and taking communion while battling myself should I should I not but this and that now I asked Him to confirm to me ,if I don't have to go, in a way that won't cause me to rethink and rethink or to help me out if I should go that my confession may go well. and then this video comes along saying "maybe this is God telling you.. it's time."
Hi Mikee, just to say that if you're in a state of Mortal Sin, you shouldn't receive the Eucharist. Glad this video helped you. God bless you. Niall. All the way from Ireland.
Niall McCall yea I was actually battling if I really was in mortal sin (I'm bad with the memory and discern-admit thing) or not because I can get quite scrupulous so I hear something like "you worry about the smallest thing" a lot lol but thanks! Maybe I should take that as a sign that I really may be in mortal sin God bless!
Ohhh right, I get you now actually! I suffer with scrupulosity too Mikee. My friend Seán told me in the summer that the rule for people with scrupulosity is if you're not 100% sure if you're in a state of mortal sin or not, you go to communion. My friend suffers with scrupulosity too. I completely understand the whole scrupulosity thing though! It can be tough. I hope that helps! :)
Niall McCall thanks a lot! It's quite refreshing to know others that suffer what i may be suffering from. the thing is.. okay this may sound extremely splitting hairs but how about 90% lol no really like I somehow remember having a reason before I did something but I'm not sure about that memory so I'm leaning towards "I'm in mortal sin". yea I know I can get too specific that I'm not even sure if I have scrupulosity or I'm just overreacting *I'm all over the place*
Why don't you just pray, repent, and confess your sins to God right then and there from where you are at??? Did Jesus ever say to go to a church and confess your sins to another man in order for God to forgive you? Where in the Bible does it say to do that and that's the only way? You really think God would forgive you any less if you don't repent at a church to another man? Jesus made it so simple for us yet us humans twist it and make it more complicated then it needs to be....
I am so thankful Father that our pilgrims in our religion has a confession process every lenten season especially when it comes again as our religious tradition and rites I always ask an enlightenment to Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit for me to be ready and all Honest of what am I about to confess on all of my venial sins but I got to be honest aswell I am fortunate enough that I can personally distinguished my sins as only venial Father, but I never took it for granted, as always asking God's help for forgiveness and turning myself to him with a greatest effort so that forver after He can abide me till to the sweetiest time as my time, or of that day of his return hopefully I am still barely alive with my body and spirit of that promise time from Christ Jesus' to witness it personally and as of the moment in time God knows trying my hardest aswell to turn away from the types of sins you mentioned Father Mike', please as always Father Mike Bless me with your prayers too, and the entire Nations and the whole Planet and it's entire living Species,.
Thank you Father Mike, for these videos, I was baptized and raised catholic until I was around 9 or 10 (I honestly can't remember), and I had my first confession and Communion, but then my family just stopped going to Mass, and I began calling myself an atheist, for about 10 years. I'm 19 now, and have recently been trying to reconnect with my faith through the Catholic Student Ministry on my campus, and I have questions as I prepare myself for my first confession in 10 years: how general can I be? If I don't remember the exact act that I did that was sinful, but I remember it happened, can I just say "I know I said something blasphemous against God, but I don't remember exactly what I said" in the confession? I also feel like if I sit there pouring out 10 years worth of sins the priest will judge me for everything I did (it's a long list, I'm not proud of that, but that's the truth). I know they are supposed to be non-judgmental, but this is what happens when I think about this for too long: my anxiety gets hyperactive. Any words of advice or encouragement?
Father Mike, I'm so grateful you are giving these messages through this venue. My mother is about 90 and she watches the Mass online. She also had a lung condition and in oxygen tank. I'm a pastoral care minister and I bring the Host to her. Now also, sometimes I'm not able to go to Mass because I don't have someone to stay with her. Is this consider this a mortal sin?
Would you go meet your friend, shopping, or somewhere else if no one is there with your Mom? If you also say NO, then shouldn’t be. But please check with your priest.
If you truly ask yourself that you tried but could not make it then it isn't mortal. Just confess to a priest when you get the chance and he will try and help you with your problem. Maybe get a bike and bike to church?
I don't know why, but this video made me cry at the end.... :'( Jesus still wants to fix my life. I pray that this will continue and that the Holy Spirit will draw me to confession. It's really hard for me right now because of my personal questions, doubts, bad experiences in the past, recent depression, my losing of faith, my kind of tendency to agnosticism in the past recent years, my sins, etc. I pray that God will give me the grace to go and do, 'cause personally I am really struggling as of the moment. I just always pray to God to always help me to strengthen my faith again, 'cause honestly I admit that it is weaker right now with all of the questions and doubts in my mind. My mind right now is struggling between believing all in science but with less love to Jesus or loving Jesus fully and having deeper relationship with God. I need prayers. I always had been a part of the church, prayerful, and I even did catechism works and serving as a lector or commentator in the church before or the one who's reading a passage from the Bible or leading the responses for the mass. I remember that everything changed after I chose to focus on my studies in school (high school) while leaving fully my service in the church. Since that, everything went fine and good in my schooling but I felt so empty and misguided, and then everything went wrong, from my quitting of school due to depression, my anxiety problems, my personal fears increased, I became less sociable and afraid to leave our house or becoming sociophobic, and started to lose my diligence for prayer life and mass. Maybe God's grace is still trying to call me through this video. I do pray and cry in prayer when I confess my sins in prayer to God, but I never had confession with a priest since that day I have my first confession before my first communion. It's been a long time since I kind of neglected God in my life, though from that day I do pray, go to mass, attend religious observances, and wanted to have a deeper relationship and understanding of God, etc. but I felt so empty at those times, like there's something lacking within me. I know God will help me and through me to do it. I pray that He will destroy my doubts and questions in mind as well as my fears especially in going to confession. Many people see me as a good person, positive, helpful, intelligent, wise, wide-reader, etc. but they don't just know how I struggle everyday with no proper and clear direction in life, suffering fears, anxieties and depression, that my curiosity in learning lead me to doubt and question everything I believed in strongly before. People don't just know how much sinful I am, and though i never did kill anyone or do murder, but I always compare my sins in life as mortal equal as killing, murdering, stealing, or breaking all the commandments of God at once. I even thought of before that I am not worthy anymore of God's love and forgiveness. I am still in wandering about my life's meaning and purpose, 'cause I tried to give it my own meaning, but it never went right and I am still unfulfilled. I had many good successes, but they're all not fulfilling. I know I am really lacking God in my life unlike the way I started to have relationship with Him when I started to learn how to pray from my grandma and mother. I know I lack God now unlike that time before my mind is opened about the concepts that in the world, there are right and wrong, and that some people are praised while some are punished. I still remember those time of innocence and those times when my mind slowly learned about the world around me, and how complex and wide life and the world are, how I encountered for the first time that there are multitudes of beliefs in the world, that people are different and divided, that some people are judged. I still remember those times of innocence and the times I am not innocent anymore to the worldly things around me, to the goodness and evil of humanity, to the concept of sin, to the concept of divisions and differences, to the concepts of different beliefs and "truths", to the concept of science vs religion, to everything. I hope I just remained as an innocent young child who still do pray with my grandma (may her soul rest in peace) and who never had doubts, questions, and fears, but love, faith, innocence, and seeing everyone as equal to my eyes. Those times when I still see no divisions, no differences, no good and evil distinction, no people receiving awards while others are put to jail, and those times when I knew not more about the world to question and doubt. I am an introvert and all my life I am more of a listener and observant to the things around me than an active speaker. I still remember those very times I knew about that people do die, question why people do get sick, question why there are so divisions, and the first time I question of my very purpose and existence. I hope to be back or even a bit more closer again to God. I know that praying while crying and confessing in my room about my sins to God and other people is not enough and that I need to go to confession, but please pray for me to do so, I am in a great dilemma or problem especially my fears, questions, and doubts getting on me these recent years. I always to teach my brother to be humble and not narcissist, but here I am living in pride of not putting myself in humility to confess before Jesus through the priest. I am also ashamed and embarrassed to go and confess. I know God and the priest will not judge me, but still I feel so bad about my sins and still think that I am so sinful that I am not worthy of God's grace and love anymore. Please pray for me. May the Holy Spirit guide me and give me strength and especially humility to bow down and cry before God and confess my sins in all humility.
Thank YOU Father Mike for being the servant and orator that you are for our Father! Thank you for submitting yourself and listening to Him! YOU Rock! :-)
Okay, Capt. Prot., riddle-me-this: You've received justification before God through valid baptism, then, one day, you utter, "No, honey, you don't look fat in those pants". You've voluntarily, willingly, nullified your justification through willful sin, but, hey, wink, it's all good, right? Worse yet, after valid baptism you look at your neighbor who just took your shoveled-out parking space with murderous intent. But it doesn't matter how grave your sin was, does it? You should pay some attention to the Church founded by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, just as the Apostle Paul tells you to, by making reference to tradition in his writings.
All wrongdoing is sin. rome 6:23 doesnt even say anything about mortal sin. It talks about the qonsequence of the original sin that brought us to the incarnation of jesus. but not all sins are mortal 1 john 16-20.
Douglas do you not read the scripture. Romans 6:23 says for the wages of sin is death. (All SIN!) were does the Bible say some sin is lessor and will not separate you from God? How do we know when Venial sin ends and a mortal sin begins? There is no such line made in the Bible. But by man only. Any sin I commit is covered by the blood of Christ. His death was the God given atonement for the sin of mankind. Hebrews 10:12 “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;” King James Version (KJV) Jesus told the Pharisees that they would have greater condemnation for what they taught. This shows that some sin will cause greater condemnation, but not there is a sin that will not separate you from God.
Occasnl Trvlr where does the Bible say that you’re justified through baptism🤔. Ephesians 2:8-9 New International Version 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. Baptism is in compliance to the faith we received from God. But baptism does not bring salvation or justification! Read the Bible not the magisterium..🙂
Douglas Matthew 5:28 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” King James Version (KJV) The it’s not physically necessary Jesus teaches about the spirit of the law. You don’t physically have to have sex with somebody else as wife to have committed adultery and be charged for it in your heart by God.
If you're still wondering about this, lots of places around the country livestream Mass on TH-cam and Facebook. While it's not the same as physically being to Mass, it's a decent substitute if you're stuck at home and can't go out.
God bless you Father Mike! may our heavenly father continue to use you! and may he make you a saint! Your videos are so helpful, I pray he gives your health and wisdom each and everyday in the name of Jesus, intersession of Mother Mary and Saint John paul ii
Can you make a video about faith and good works and the difference between the Catholic church and protestant church teachings? I'm going through RCIA right now, and I'm just having a tough time fully understanding the differences. Thanks! #askfathermike
Maybe this willl help. Many (not all) Protestants believe that faith alone in Christ is all that matters due to their misunderstanding of the words of St. Paul, in which they believe Paul speaks in favor of faith over works. But in fact, Paul is not speaking of works in the sense of doing good deeds, but rather what he terms "works of the law" - which were all of those traditional repetitious acts Jews had to perform each week, such as ritual washings etc. The Catholic position, therefore, has always been that faith goes hand in hand with works (good deeds), for as St. Augustine famously said, 'God does not choose to save us without our own cooperation.' Hope this helps!
Hey Meghan, two great speakers on this are Steve Rey and Tim Staples who are both converts to the catholic faith and we’re devout Protestants before. They are phenomenal !!! They do multiple videos on the difference between the two beliefs and give deep rooted examples and evidence dating back to the first Christians and church history along with quoting directly from scripture . Check them out 😀
@The Miserable Man The difference is just more kneeling, right? Just kidding. Another major difference is The Magisterium. When a catholic goes to the Priest with a problem, the priest arrives at a dictum after consulting with The Magistrate (a hierarchy of men). For example: homosexuality used to be against the rules, now, it has been deemed by these men, to be an acceptable practice; Divorce was once a grave offense (sin) against persons, the family and the whole culture, now it's just fine. When Protestants go to the church with a problem, the Reverend says: "Let's go to The Book for an answer". For The Protestant, The Bible, the Divinely inspired Word of The Lord, is the source for answers. A true believer in Christ calls no earthly man "Father". As it is written: "But you are not to be called ‘rabbi,’ for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called ‘masters,’ for you have one master, the Christ" (Matt. 23:8-10).
What if you pass away with mortal sin and your highly remorseful, will God give you a second chance at your judgment to get rid of your sin and at least go through purgatory instead of eternal damnation
All sin is forgiven by grace through Faith. For it is imputed (laid to our account) righteousness. He (God) is faithful and Just to forgive all sin and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. We have a great High Priest, Jesus. He is superior to all man-made priests. He lives forever, and intercedes on our behalf. We are clothed in HIS righteousness. We are called children of God and no longer slaves. Amen!
I highly encourage that you research multiple known-to-be-valid Catholic resources like websites and books to see what the Church's teaching is on this, as I know that your question is answered somewhere at some point. Infact I believe it is mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so that's a great place to begin looking.
@@egschmad8867 From what I've read from various sources, including the Catechism, Jesus is not bound by His Sacraments, so He does make exceptions. Each of us is judged on a case-by-case basis, and Jesus does everything He could to save a person if they have repentance in their heart.
Well I would like to say I have been struggling with this horrible sin of cheating in school.I am fully aware it is wrong and aware of the costs.I still pray often and go to mass regularly and do the best I can as a catholic besides this point.I know it is probably a mortal sin and I commit it constantly and am struggling with it and think it’s faster etc.I However am resolving to go to confession after I complete the school year next month and completely relieve myself from cheating ever again.I am just scared I will lapse back into this horrible habit.It is even worse that I am waiting for after school to confess my sins I know but I am truly sorry and feel anguish for what I have done and yet to do.I am fine if nobody reads this but I couldn’t talk about it to anyone so I put it somewhere . If you can please pray for me or just send a thought to god for me
You could even make an appointment with your local priest to go to confession. I'm sure that's a great option. Let me know if you do go or when you do.
I have a question... If one were to commit what would be a mortal sin, but it's missing one of the three requirements for a sin to be mortal, would the act not be a sin altogether then? Or would it be a venial sin? Or would it depend on the specific act?
Nick Your boi I'm late, but I'll try to answer anyway. Well, I would try and remember that no matter what you've done, chances are that the priest has heard the same sin or much worse. He's probably heard decades of sins, chances are he's heard yours. Also, priests aren't perfect either, I'm sure they have committed mortal sins as well whether that be before the priesthood or during. They might have even done your exact sin as well. So, it is scary to confess your sins, there is no way to get around the fear most of the time, but I think you can get through it (and maybe you already have considering it's been 3 months😂). Praying for you❤️
Do not be afraid! I fell away from my faith and was ashamed and broken for the last 12 years of my life and stayed away from confession but knew I couldn’t receive the precious Eucharist . All I can say is grace is real and I felt so compelled to go to confession. My life changed the day I walked out of confession and I go every 3 weeks or so and receive the Eucharist. I am happier than I’ve ever been. I highly suggest reading St. Faustina diary. I also suggest reading the 7 secrets to confession. Life changing. Also find a priest you can truly make a regular confession to. They are your spiritual guide. You are going into the confessional to meet Jesus truly present . He already knows your sins, but it takes humility to kneel down and tell Jesus you are sorry. I was so prideful for so many years harboring sin and anger. Once I let that go I was free. My first confession back was on the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows! I love confession now. It is truly a gift and when you can receive the Eucharist it restores your life. Also go to Adoration and tell Jesus you are scared and to give you the grace and the push to go . I hope this helps.
+Sébastien Bédard I masturbated ONLY once as a child, but as a 22 years young adult I never masturbated again, but what I'm asking is are EVIL and blasphemous thoughts a sin?
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The worst thing about committing a sin you have been trying to break is feeling filthy and empty immediately after :(
God tries to protect us from that feeling but we're too difficult to inspire. It's sad, sad that we keep doing it.
No it's when someone else takes advantage of you and your inoccent and they use you against your will . That's worse than personal wilful sin. Also drugs and alcohol leave us defenseless and than we really fall into unintentional sin.
I say, “I give my heart to Jesus, I give my mind to Jesus, I give my body to Jesus.”
David Gaines but it’s still a sin to over dose in alcohol or drugs
Oh for crying out loud. It's called a guilt trip. You are listening to your parent's voice, not any god. Do you feel "filthy and empty" because you sometimes feel attracted to somebody? That's just life as a live being. No big deal. if the god you believe in thinks you deserve eternal punishment for that then he is a monster. If you think you deserve eternal punishment for that then go to a therapist.
My dearest prayers go out to those souls who die unexpectedly without having a chance to confess a mortal sin. May the Lord have mercy on their souls and find true repentance deep within their hearts.
Amen to that!
I honestly believe God uses discretion. He knows people's heart.
Too late, why do Catholics believe in purgatory? You have your life in the hands of a false teacher! You’re last breath is final, mercy on you for not searching the scriptures!
It is too late to pray for the dead. I pray, rather, that more people that are alive will repent and come to Christ (Ephesians 6 :19). After death, there is no use praying to the dead (praying to saints) nor praying for the dead, you can only hope that they will go to heaven, but their eternal destiny is set when they die.
In Galatians 4:19, Paul has a burden to pray for believers in the Churches of Galatia (Galatians 1:2). In Ephesians 1:16-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21, Paul prays for the believers that are in the Church in Ephesus. I have prayed the prayers in Ephesians for myself, and it is like getting a doctorate in theology, the revelations that I received transformed my life, the lives of relatives and the lives of neighbors. For example, I made the decision to pray these prayers the entire year of 2006. God revealed to my conscience to sell my house and buy it back 5 years later. I sold the house and bought it back for 1/3rd the price.
The bible says that all sins are mortal. Romans 6:23 says: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, there are no venial sins. All sins are mortal. Only by faith in the accomplished works of Christ at the cross, can a man be saved forever.
See John 3:16...and I quote: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
It is time to get back in relationship with God.
Amen...
@@virginiafonacier8795 When we have Jesus living in us then we believe that the Lord Jesus is our savior. I’ve subscribed to your TH-cam channel and now press the subscribe button in Jesus name
Amen
Mac
Chemically addicted 25 years I need Jesus 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I once forsaken God, cursed his name, doubted his entire existence. Now i'm brought back before the alter on my knees, seeking God's mercy
Awesome, my fellow Elder Scrolls fan! May God bless you and the Blessed Virgin guide you!
Can a believer saved by grace, born of God, commit mortal sin? Mortal sin is obviously an unrepentant act of sin in a practiced nature.
And if so, how do you deal with 1 John 3:9 with the greek saying those born of God are not ABLE to keep on sinning?
If those redeemed are not able to practice sin, how do they commit mortal sin????
This dilemma comes around again in 5:18. Again those born of God do not practice sin.
Paul says -
1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
You need to ask God to save you. Only then will he give you a new heart and renewed mind. Do you believe the Gospel?
Joel 2:32 ESV - And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Go to confession
if Gods seed abides in you then confess to God alone for help
God bless you, Brother!!! Jesus loves you.
Since August I've prayed a rosary every day and gone to daily Mass. All my prayers have been that my six children (and one daughter in law) would get into a state of grace because I fear the coming chastisement. They had all drifted away, as young adults do. I put it in Mary's hands. My Christmas gift this year is that they all went to confession today (Dec. 26) and I'm so happy I could cry. Pulled up this video as a way to help them.
Praise God, Blessed Virgin Mary turned her eyes of mercy upon them! Glory to God and Mary!
So happy for you and them! That's our Blessed Mother, she is always watching over her children!
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Praise God !!
😢 thank you so encouraging
This video made cried because I've committed sin that I couldnt forgive myself. I felt I am not worthy of forgiveness. After watched this I realised how much God love me and how wonderful His love is. His Grace is beyond my imagination. Thank you for this message. Now I have courage to go to confession and come back to Him.
Okay so cool story - I just got into a fight with my brother over a petty matter and I was regretting it as I walked to my room. Almost as soon as I felt this regret, my iPod lights up with the notification for this video. Weird
Now we just made up 👍
I love it when God does stuff like that :)
Ozymandias King of Kings
A similar thing happened to me with one of these videos a while back! Great feeling.
Ozymandias King of Kings isn't blasphemy the only sin never forgiven?
Marianna Zavadskaija no, a grace of god is forgiveness of all sins if you ask for forgiveness
I heard a preacher say "you can't outsin God's grace." I like that saying a lot, and it keeps the door to God open to me. (I'm not Catholic but I learn a lot from Fr. Mike and his talks.)
It's better if you start your research about the Catholic Church and find God. Catholic Church is the true Holy and Apostolic Church and the beauty of it can be seen. I shall pray for you brother.
Pax Christi
@@austinjy Catholicism is counterfeit Christianity. Jesus never gave a name to His church. No church can save a man. Cause salvation is by faith in the accomplished work of Christ at the cross for us. 1 Corinthians 15, verses 1-4, Ephesians 2: 8,9, Galatians 2:16, Romans 6:23.
Believe in Jesus Christ and be saved today and forever.
Come in through the door and join
@@strongheart6297 Jesus is the door. John 10:9 Not you!
@@donaldgodin3491 I never said I was but you would prefer to block the way whereas I am speaking to the invitation he already feels!
Thank you father, 😭😭 i just realize that God will still love you and give you grace even if you turn your back to him doing mortal sin 😢 GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!!!!
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Thanks Father I'm going to confession this Saturday.
VocalMaster Repent and confess your sins to the Lord right now from where you are at... You don't have to wait and confess to another finite sinner (Priest). This is something man made up. The bible or Jesus himself never told anyone you have to go to "Confessions" to repent and in order to be saved and forgiven (Give me proof with scriptures if you disagree). The bible says the second coming of Jesus will come like a thief in the night... You don't know when Jesus is coming again it can be anytime. repent while you still can don't wait for a false approval of a pharisee... sorry priest... you get my point...
yes I agree but I still went to confession anyway because I really enjoy it. I think it's good for us to sit down with someone of faith in any religion to talk about our sins and pray to Jesus together. so that why I still go any way
That's heresy. Scripture tells us to "confess our sins to one another". Jesus told St. Peter "Whoevers sins you forgive are forgiven, and whoevers sins you retain are retained." Why would Jesus give the power to forgive sins to His Apostles if He didn't intend for them to forgive sins? Makes no sense. Jesus created the Sacrament of Confession, and wants us to go confess our sins to the priest so that we can receive absolution. We can confess our sins directly to God in what we call an "Act of Contrition" prayer, but it still requires us to go to Confession as soon as we are able to.
You shouldn't agree with him. What Nj Nj said is totally against what the Bible says and what the Church teaches. We go to Confession because Jesus created the Sacrament as a means to be absolved and grow in graces. We do not go merely because we enjoy it. (Although it is good that you do enjoy it!)
Mark 2:7-8 (KJV)
7 Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?
8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Pharisee, Jew, and protestants still thinking who can forgive sins but God only? Jesus ask you Nj Nj and protestant ...Why reason ye these things in your hearts? sorry protestants.
I have been trying to avoid looking at Porn. Not easy to do. Every time I do it I feel guilty, and feel like God hates what I did. I am a single man, so you probably get this sin from a lot of guys. I am trying to break the cycle, but it is very difficult.
Matt B same
Matt B Go to the confessional the sooner than you can, with the Grace that you will recover, it will be easier. And also the security that the Grace gives, imagine when you have the Grace you're sure to go to heaven!!! Do you understand? a lot of your fears will disappear.
Matt B it is hard to break. W.e. accesory you use to watch it. Put it away at night. Pray and read yoyr Bible tgen pray again before bed. Stay on Gods path and it will be eassier. Activate the HolyvSpirit within you.
Try giving something up, fasting from something you enjoy. I did this with sweets ( fatty sweet food) and found that combined with prayer this fasting helped me very much in overcoming this exact sin. God bless, and run to him with all your heart, and he will save you
whenever you get the temptation, look on youtube for some videos to keep your mind focused - e.g. check out this documentary of Our Lady: th-cam.com/video/2lA5NUHqC88/w-d-xo.html& - Just keep looking at these types of videos to keep you occupied.
Grammer is horrible
Father Mike you brought me to tears.
I walked away from the church as a child and stayed lost for 40 years. As a child with a childs brain I could not understand. I have always been searching, Sep 30, 19 I meet with my pastor for a deep confession and a rejoining of our church.
Ranchu Goldfish, pastor is for protestant. Priest is for Catholic. So don’t confuse. Welcome home.
God Bless you, man. I hope you've been able to reconcile yourself with God and his Church. I know it's been a year but, I'll include you in my rosary today.
Had tears in my eyes seeing and listening to you Father, the last thought crossing my mind was, it’s like seeing and listening to Jesus, may God bless you Father
I'm a Protestant. This video was good. I would confess my sin first to God through Jesus then I'd talk to either the minister of the church I attend or one of the elders. Repentance follows and I would stop living in that particular sin. I'm so grateful for grace which sets us free to live light without the burden of slavery to sin. Living a good life feels good too :)
This is how it should be! Even you are not Catholic, you are doing what the Bible commands, that we confess to one another, ask the elders to pray for us. The Lord bless you for keeping His word.
there is a biblical precedent for what he is saying if you are curious....
i've been doing this, i'm a Catholic btw
Your Protestant church doesn’t have the blessing of Christ to forgive or retain sin passed through succession.
Your sins are retained, despite confessing to your church leadership
@@alextison9707I don’t think he was saying he’s asking the pastor for forgiveness. I think he means he prays to God for forgiveness, and asks for prayer and advice from his pastor.
I am a new Catholic. This may be the explanation about the two types of sin that I have heard so far.
You better not have any bad thoughts or else you'll lose your salvation. You better not struggle with lust or masturbation or you will really lose your salvation. I was about to take rcia classes until I realized how salvation wasn't possible through the Catholic Church
@benmiddleton9984 Bro. Be careful with the salvation-in-a-box packaging.
You are to work out YOUR salvation in fear and trembling. The Catholic church merely provides resources to help you abstain, guide back to the narrow path, and tools to help you keep your weaponry sharp.
Don't throw baby Jesus out with the bath water.
If you are particularly pleased with hearing what you want to hear, maybe the protestant road will suit you. But if you want to experience Christianity in its most true form, come on home to Rome.
Yours truly,
A DEEPLY PROTESTANT CONVERT
And just because we commit the same sins over and over again, which we all do, we all struggle with different things, and we all fall, but what's important is that you go to confession and truley mean that you're sorry and do not want to sin again. If you happen to commit that same sin again, you are still forgiven becasue you tried, and God loves you even when you fail. What is NOT true repentance is when you go to confession knowing full well you PLAN on committing the same sin again. And you're just confessing so you can get forgiven until you sin, or so that you can recieve communion. Or skipping confession altogether because you know you will commit sin again. Yes we all fall, but with Gods grace, the longer we work hard and trulwy repent, eventually His grace will save us from that particular sin. He saved me from drugs. After years. And im back home in the church and I go to confession weekly because I'm human and I fall in other ways. But don't let anyone tell you confession is pointless or anything like that. Every time we go and r truly sorry, we recieve more grace and get closer to the perfection God's molding us into.
@@benmiddleton9984Salvation is absolutely possible! I’m praying that you will take RCIA classes. In the Agony in the Garden Jesus prayed that you would be a part of THIS Church. Everyone struggles with sin. And God wants to help us so we don’t have to struggle anymore. I love you and I’m praying for you. Repent and believe in the Gospel.
@@benmiddleton9984 God is always offering you a chance to repent and come back to him, all the way until the day you die.
"I confess to the Almighty God, I recognize in front of my brothers and sisters in Christ, that I have sinned in thoughts, in words, by actions and by omissions...Yes I have truly sinned. That's why that I implore the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the saints and you too my brothers and sisters to pray for me the Lord our God...Amen"
Well said Father.... way to go in explaining the difference between the two and how grave even Venial Sin is and how it wears you down over time and weakens you
Thankyou Father Mike , your hundreds of talks really help clarify issues and help me see more clearly problems that I have struggled with. I am sure I am rather older than most people who watch you but you have helped me to see that the Catholic Faith is full of kindness and compassion , not a position I held when I was younger and I never thought I would go near a Catholic Church let alone be going through the process of becoming a Catholic. thankyou .
wow. I can't stop crying ryt now but I need to post this though I've NEVER posted on a public forum. for a long time now I've been going so far away from god and the farther i went the more difficult it was to even approach him . It was so hard to lose my best friend and my father and my rock. today I take my phone to text someone to ask for prayers and I actually type out Is there a point of no return with sin?.. but I couldn't send it cuz I knew the theoretical answer. but it's so difficult to believe that when u feel like filth. I try to pray and on failing I come on TH-cam on an impulse and i find this. Your grace can still find me where I am! I can't thank u enough fr mike.. love from India.
Beautiful! Praying for you!
In the bible it says there is no sin that humans can commit that is unforgivable by God... As long as you humble yourself before the Lord and repent.
+Philothea Rachel ,I will be praying for you as well, don't let shame lay the foundations of a wall between you and Our Father,Jesus Christ . Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you and strengthen you. We are all human. When we have acted poorly or caused pain to another and our Lord , it is sometimes very hard to " show your face" you just want to hide away. Be not afraid to go to God ,let your burdens and tears go . Return lighter ,free of the weight of sin , thankful for forgiveness and happy to move forward! May God grant you peace, protect you and keep you close. My prayers will be with you.
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i am from kerala too:)
@ascension presents thank you so much! :)
I so needed to hear this today! PRAISE BE JESUS NOW AND FOREVER ❤️🔥
Hello Lula
How are you doing today?
So helpful! So clear! Thank you Father Mike!
I’m reconnecting with God. And I want to thank you for your videos Fr Schmitz (I’m sorry if I just butchered the spelling of your last name). Anyway your videos have been such a bright light shining the way on my path back to Him. Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you Father Mike. You make the Catholic religion so much easier to understand. Thank you and GOD BLESS.
Thank you Father. It’s been too long since my last confession. I’ll be there Saturday after 8am mass
God is so good to us. The end gave me hope! He truly loves us.
Going to Confession is a MINI Exorcism. ....it's extremely good for your soul.
Cant go to church now because of the virus
😂😂😂 very true
natasha williams it’s heresy. Only God forgives.
@@nolant6772 „Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained."
Tysm, father. I have been agonizing over sin and doing things that I didn't know were grave matters at the time. It's so frustrating because some people will say "that's a grave matter, therefore it's a mortal sin"...and I'm like...well I want to say sorry to God, but I honestly didn't know. If I had known, I wouldn't have done it. The worst was entering into a civil marriage with my husband, not realizing that as baptized and confirmed Catholics, it was required that it be sacramental. Didn't know any better at the time, and are going through convalidation now....but man. I was panicking thinking this was a state of mortal sin and I shouldn't have been taking Eucharist....but it's not in this case, right? It can't be mortal if you didn't realize it was a sin when you did it and are taking steps to fix it now that you know, right?
Even though the bullfighting analogy is violent, it helps me to know the seriousness of mortal sin
Thank you Fr. Mike for this teaching. I thank God for your work. All praises, honor and glory to God!!!!🙌 God bless you and everyone who listens to this teaching.🙏
Thank God this video popped up at the right time. I will hopefully be scheduling a confession this Saturday and making things right with God. I thank you for making this video for me. God bless.
Wow Fr.Mike that's is so mazing about grace and mercy from God.
Thanks Father. You are saving souls here.
The blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is the unpardonable sin which is to continue to reject the spirit and doing our own will and not Gods will...
The only reason blasphemy is the unpardonable is because you can’t ask for forgiveness for that sin, thankfully every sin can be forgiven by the lord if you’re TRULY sorry and asking for forgiveness, not for forgiveness out of fear of loosing heaven.
@@slopcrusher3482 so are mortal sins in christianity or only in catholic
@@toxbic That's a kind of weird question, because the idea of mortal sin is biblical even if non-catholic christians reject that notion. Its the Catholics who make the mortal and venial sin notion explicit in the church, but non-catholic christians do not adhere to that but will somewhat acknowledge that there are seriously grave sins. So its a Christian concept, not all christians adhere to that concept. Hope that helps dear friend in Christ ❤️
Venial sin in the Bible:
All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 5:17
Mortal sin in the Bible:
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life-to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 5:16-17
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
Colossians 3:5-8
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
What I liked about this video is the grace part. So feeling guilty afterwards is God's grace working on us, that's all I need honestly. Works won't bring us into heaven, only God's grace will. It's reassuring especially when you do indeed sin.
Your ministry is truly helping me understand things as a former protestant. I was taught that the unforgivable or deadly sin was blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. This makes so much sense
Oh Priest! Thank God for you! All your videos have come to me the moment I committed a mortal sin and I am like "I wish I saw your videos sooner". I have to go to confession ASAP. Thanks again so much!
I was literally just thinking about the differences between mortal and venial sin on Sunday!
This is exactly what I need today.
This is a good video to have. I'm always worried about this.
The story about the matador is so accurate.. I have return to my faith in God a couple of years by accepting his call. I have been to general confession but after I would realize I forget this and that. 🙄😭 I felt bad. I even made a list because I do not want to forget but ended forgetting the list. I pray God would forgive me...
I too made a list and sometimes forgot to say them but I understand from the holy spirit that God sees and knows all, in making the list he sees that, bring it next time, God bless you
God has blessed you Father Mike . Keep up the good work . You are the best option on TH-cam .
Could you do a video on scrupulosity and discerning sin?
Same here. I would find it really helpful too! #askfathermike
#askfathermike
Gabby Cheever Scruples is my main spiritual struggle. It's been causing me issues for years
A video on scruples would be great!
Gabby Cheever Regarding scrupulousity, it's good to meditate on God's love for the individual. For spiritual reading, I'd recommend St. John of the Cross' Romance on Creation. A translation can be found easily online.
God Bless you also, Father Mike. Thank you.
Father Mike, keep up the good work. The harvest is great but labourers few. I pray to the Father to send more labourers in his vineyard.
Thank you for your content in this channel. This content help me to have an understanding, that I must beware of all sins, and not belittle them.
Can you do a video on sins of thought? That is something I struggle with everyday. I have a certain thought and think that I sinned. This would be helpful also. Thank you.
That can drive a person crazy because it's impossible to think about not thinking, which is basically an unswitchable demand that you're setting for yourself.
That helps
That helps. Thank you
Your a wonderful priest and perfect you know how to talk to us with kindness and wisdom and. You don't give us fear..a priest at my church screams and makes me feel fear and afraid to talk to him..I converted to catholic.
I need to know I did the right thing..my health stops me alot from Mass...I took care of my priest in this home till he died..and we had mass and Communion hear all the time...but I pray every day or rosery..I want to go all the time....the whether affects my health...Amen I confess every day father Mike.
Fr thank you for this message! Your explanations of the different types of sins: venial and mortal is necessary. You are inspiring-beautiful ending as well.
Thank you Father, God bless you.
Continue to evangelize the young.
I've been trying to get rid of a sin I've been committing for many years, this year I started to get closer with God. Everytime I commit this sin I confess, I feel awful, but I'm making progress.
What is it
As long as you WANT to stop and pray. God will help you.
@@chloekit4861 Not your place to ask
@@dankmatter3068 so why say it if you can’t elaborate
@@chloekit4861 For hope
Fr Mike, your talks are so good. I don't know if you have any idea just how good. Many thanks and keep them coming. ))
#Askfrmike can you please do a video on scrupulosity? I really need some advice on it, and I'm sure others do too.
Thanks Fr. ......! I pray for myself and all my family members living and deceased. God and We ourselves should keep away from all sins and wrong doings which will lead us into hells and death and away from God and his love and blessings and mercy and protection. Fr. Please pray for us and all who needs prayers, especially all babies and boys and girls.
Thanks for the video Fr. Mike,
If there isn't already one, it would be really nice if you could make a video specifically on the sin of lust, and how to tell when you're just being tempted and when you're giving in. I don't know if anyone else would find it helpful, but I know I've been struggling with that a lot lately.
If it involves prolonged staring at a person or images so as to inspire arousal, then it is in the realm of lust. If it is simply a momentary glance at someone who is attractive and then a turning away, it is not lust. A very good tip against this sin is weekly fasting and daily mass and reception of the Eucharist. Also, living with a Christian roomate or someone who you can pray with together in the evenings can help enormously.
Thank you soooooooo.... much Fr. for this relevant talk Fr.. I know of so so so many Catholics taking their Sunday obligation so lightly for flimsy reasons. God bless you and protect you.
Thank you so much! God bless you, father Mike.
Hello
Thank you. I needed this. Your way of speaking is as if god spoke through you to me.
Confession is what I need too do.God bless
So helpful, thank you Father!
okay I just finished watching this video and guess what
before I watched this I asked God to confirm to me if I should go to confession because it's been a couple of weeks that I'm hesitating and taking communion while battling myself should I should I not but this and that
now I asked Him to confirm to me ,if I don't have to go, in a way that won't cause me to rethink and rethink or to help me out if I should go that my confession may go well. and then this video comes along saying "maybe this is God telling you.. it's time."
Hi Mikee, just to say that if you're in a state of Mortal Sin, you shouldn't receive the Eucharist. Glad this video helped you. God bless you. Niall. All the way from Ireland.
Niall McCall yea I was actually battling if I really was in mortal sin (I'm bad with the memory and discern-admit thing) or not because I can get quite scrupulous so I hear something like "you worry about the smallest thing" a lot lol but thanks! Maybe I should take that as a sign that I really may be in mortal sin
God bless!
Ohhh right, I get you now actually! I suffer with scrupulosity too Mikee. My friend Seán told me in the summer that the rule for people with scrupulosity is if you're not 100% sure if you're in a state of mortal sin or not, you go to communion. My friend suffers with scrupulosity too. I completely understand the whole scrupulosity thing though! It can be tough. I hope that helps! :)
Niall McCall thanks a lot! It's quite refreshing to know others that suffer what i may be suffering from. the thing is.. okay this may sound extremely splitting hairs but how about 90% lol
no really like I somehow remember having a reason before I did something but I'm not sure about that memory so I'm leaning towards "I'm in mortal sin". yea I know I can get too specific that I'm not even sure if I have scrupulosity or I'm just overreacting *I'm all over the place*
Why don't you just pray, repent, and confess your sins to God right then and there from where you are at??? Did Jesus ever say to go to a church and confess your sins to another man in order for God to forgive you? Where in the Bible does it say to do that and that's the only way? You really think God would forgive you any less if you don't repent at a church to another man? Jesus made it so simple for us yet us humans twist it and make it more complicated then it needs to be....
Father Mike, you really make it understandable. Thank you 🙏
Wish there were more Father Mikes in the world!!
Hello father Mike. Thank you for clarifying this. I appreciate it!
Can you please make a video that talks about scrupulosity? #askfrmike
Thank you for teaching me another part of God’s grace. I understand now and. That gives me hope, something I felt I lost.
Thank you for this video, father. It helped me clarify some questions I had.
May God bless you father Mike!
I am so thankful Father that our pilgrims in our religion has a confession process every lenten season especially when it comes again as our religious tradition and rites I always ask an enlightenment to Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit for me to be ready and all Honest of what am I about to confess on all of my venial sins but I got to be honest aswell I am fortunate enough that I can personally distinguished my sins as only venial Father, but I never took it for granted, as always asking God's help for forgiveness and turning myself to him with a greatest effort so that forver after He can abide me till to the sweetiest time as my time, or of that day of his return hopefully I am still barely alive with my body and spirit of that promise time from Christ Jesus' to witness it personally and as of the moment in time God knows trying my hardest aswell to turn away from the types of sins you mentioned Father Mike', please as always Father Mike Bless me with your prayers too, and the entire Nations and the whole Planet and it's entire living Species,.
His preaching today was so meaning full for me amen god bless you
Thank you Father Mike, for these videos, I was baptized and raised catholic until I was around 9 or 10 (I honestly can't remember), and I had my first confession and Communion, but then my family just stopped going to Mass, and I began calling myself an atheist, for about 10 years. I'm 19 now, and have recently been trying to reconnect with my faith through the Catholic Student Ministry on my campus, and I have questions as I prepare myself for my first confession in 10 years: how general can I be? If I don't remember the exact act that I did that was sinful, but I remember it happened, can I just say "I know I said something blasphemous against God, but I don't remember exactly what I said" in the confession? I also feel like if I sit there pouring out 10 years worth of sins the priest will judge me for everything I did (it's a long list, I'm not proud of that, but that's the truth). I know they are supposed to be non-judgmental, but this is what happens when I think about this for too long: my anxiety gets hyperactive. Any words of advice or encouragement?
Thank the Lord and you Farther Mike for that message, it just made my day 😇
Felony versus misdemeanor.
What a great comparison!!
Exactly!! This is funny cuz I've explained law to my family like "a misdemeanor is like a venial sin and felony is mortal"
for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." 1 Peter 1:16
Father Mike, I'm so grateful you are giving these messages through this venue. My mother is about 90 and she watches the Mass online. She also had a lung condition and in oxygen tank. I'm a pastoral care minister and I bring the Host to her. Now also, sometimes I'm not able to go to Mass because I don't have someone to stay with her. Is this consider this a mortal sin?
Would you go meet your friend, shopping, or somewhere else if no one is there with your Mom? If you also say NO, then shouldn’t be. But please check with your priest.
Thank you Father for this video . You have taken me closer to my Lord .. You have made this easy . God Bless you .
Fr. what if my parents never took us to HolyDays when I was growing up and I also don't drive so I have hard getting to Holy Days .
If you truly ask yourself that you tried but could not make it then it isn't mortal. Just confess to a priest when you get the chance and he will try and help you with your problem. Maybe get a bike and bike to church?
I don't know why, but this video made me cry at the end.... :'( Jesus still wants to fix my life. I pray that this will continue and that the Holy Spirit will draw me to confession. It's really hard for me right now because of my personal questions, doubts, bad experiences in the past, recent depression, my losing of faith, my kind of tendency to agnosticism in the past recent years, my sins, etc. I pray that God will give me the grace to go and do, 'cause personally I am really struggling as of the moment. I just always pray to God to always help me to strengthen my faith again, 'cause honestly I admit that it is weaker right now with all of the questions and doubts in my mind. My mind right now is struggling between believing all in science but with less love to Jesus or loving Jesus fully and having deeper relationship with God. I need prayers. I always had been a part of the church, prayerful, and I even did catechism works and serving as a lector or commentator in the church before or the one who's reading a passage from the Bible or leading the responses for the mass. I remember that everything changed after I chose to focus on my studies in school (high school) while leaving fully my service in the church. Since that, everything went fine and good in my schooling but I felt so empty and misguided, and then everything went wrong, from my quitting of school due to depression, my anxiety problems, my personal fears increased, I became less sociable and afraid to leave our house or becoming sociophobic, and started to lose my diligence for prayer life and mass. Maybe God's grace is still trying to call me through this video. I do pray and cry in prayer when I confess my sins in prayer to God, but I never had confession with a priest since that day I have my first confession before my first communion. It's been a long time since I kind of neglected God in my life, though from that day I do pray, go to mass, attend religious observances, and wanted to have a deeper relationship and understanding of God, etc. but I felt so empty at those times, like there's something lacking within me. I know God will help me and through me to do it. I pray that He will destroy my doubts and questions in mind as well as my fears especially in going to confession. Many people see me as a good person, positive, helpful, intelligent, wise, wide-reader, etc. but they don't just know how I struggle everyday with no proper and clear direction in life, suffering fears, anxieties and depression, that my curiosity in learning lead me to doubt and question everything I believed in strongly before. People don't just know how much sinful I am, and though i never did kill anyone or do murder, but I always compare my sins in life as mortal equal as killing, murdering, stealing, or breaking all the commandments of God at once. I even thought of before that I am not worthy anymore of God's love and forgiveness. I am still in wandering about my life's meaning and purpose, 'cause I tried to give it my own meaning, but it never went right and I am still unfulfilled. I had many good successes, but they're all not fulfilling. I know I am really lacking God in my life unlike the way I started to have relationship with Him when I started to learn how to pray from my grandma and mother. I know I lack God now unlike that time before my mind is opened about the concepts that in the world, there are right and wrong, and that some people are praised while some are punished. I still remember those time of innocence and those times when my mind slowly learned about the world around me, and how complex and wide life and the world are, how I encountered for the first time that there are multitudes of beliefs in the world, that people are different and divided, that some people are judged. I still remember those times of innocence and the times I am not innocent anymore to the worldly things around me, to the goodness and evil of humanity, to the concept of sin, to the concept of divisions and differences, to the concepts of different beliefs and "truths", to the concept of science vs religion, to everything. I hope I just remained as an innocent young child who still do pray with my grandma (may her soul rest in peace) and who never had doubts, questions, and fears, but love, faith, innocence, and seeing everyone as equal to my eyes. Those times when I still see no divisions, no differences, no good and evil distinction, no people receiving awards while others are put to jail, and those times when I knew not more about the world to question and doubt. I am an introvert and all my life I am more of a listener and observant to the things around me than an active speaker. I still remember those very times I knew about that people do die, question why people do get sick, question why there are so divisions, and the first time I question of my very purpose and existence. I hope to be back or even a bit more closer again to God. I know that praying while crying and confessing in my room about my sins to God and other people is not enough and that I need to go to confession, but please pray for me to do so, I am in a great dilemma or problem especially my fears, questions, and doubts getting on me these recent years. I always to teach my brother to be humble and not narcissist, but here I am living in pride of not putting myself in humility to confess before Jesus through the priest. I am also ashamed and embarrassed to go and confess. I know God and the priest will not judge me, but still I feel so bad about my sins and still think that I am so sinful that I am not worthy of God's grace and love anymore. Please pray for me. May the Holy Spirit guide me and give me strength and especially humility to bow down and cry before God and confess my sins in all humility.
I am not a catholic, but I have come to embrace this doctrine.
I'm so grateful for you Fr. Mike!!
THANK u brother
Glory be to God, I needed this video❤❤❤
Fr. Mike, will you ever be making a video to answer this question: Why should one not receive Communion when not in the state of grace?
and you should talk about the spiritual communion for people in state of mortal sin and divorced people.
Wrong. Confession.
And lost souls... I thought that was why Jesus came in the first place. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
john then I guess Paul(Saul) should not be a saint. Rescuing lost souls is the work of the Lord's church.
Thank YOU Father Mike for being the servant and orator that you are for our Father! Thank you for submitting yourself and listening to Him! YOU Rock! :-)
All sin is Mortal!
Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.
Okay, Capt. Prot., riddle-me-this: You've received justification before God through valid baptism, then, one day, you utter, "No, honey, you don't look fat in those pants". You've voluntarily, willingly, nullified your justification through willful sin, but, hey, wink, it's all good, right? Worse yet, after valid baptism you look at your neighbor who just took your shoveled-out parking space with murderous intent. But it doesn't matter how grave your sin was, does it?
You should pay some attention to the Church founded by Jesus Christ and His Apostles, just as the Apostle Paul tells you to, by making reference to tradition in his writings.
All wrongdoing is sin. rome 6:23 doesnt even say anything about mortal sin. It talks about the qonsequence of the original sin that brought us to the incarnation of jesus. but not all sins are mortal 1 john 16-20.
Douglas do you not read the scripture. Romans 6:23 says for the wages of sin is death. (All SIN!) were does the Bible say some sin is lessor and will not separate you from God? How do we know when Venial sin ends and a mortal sin begins? There is no such line made in the Bible. But by man only. Any sin I commit is covered by the blood of Christ. His death was the God given atonement for the sin of mankind.
Hebrews 10:12
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;”
King James Version (KJV)
Jesus told the Pharisees that they would have greater condemnation for what they taught. This shows that some sin will cause greater condemnation, but not there is a sin that will not separate you from God.
Occasnl Trvlr where does the Bible say that you’re justified through baptism🤔.
Ephesians 2:8-9
New International Version
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Baptism is in compliance to the faith we received from God. But baptism does not bring salvation or justification! Read the Bible not the magisterium..🙂
Douglas Matthew 5:28
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
King James Version (KJV)
The it’s not physically necessary Jesus teaches about the spirit of the law. You don’t physically have to have sex with somebody else as wife to have committed adultery and be charged for it in your heart by God.
Thank you Holy Spirit for forgiving me
Nice bit about bull fighting. Thanks for this, Fr. Mike!
Father Mike your simply awesome!!!!!
Is it bad if I can’t go to mass during quarantine? Because I’m starting to feel guilty about it.
If you're still wondering about this, lots of places around the country livestream Mass on TH-cam and Facebook. While it's not the same as physically being to Mass, it's a decent substitute if you're stuck at home and can't go out.
God bless you Father Mike! may our heavenly father continue to use you! and may he make you a saint! Your videos are so helpful, I pray he gives your health and wisdom each and everyday in the name of Jesus, intersession of Mother Mary and Saint John paul ii
Can you make a video about faith and good works and the difference between the Catholic church and protestant church teachings? I'm going through RCIA right now, and I'm just having a tough time fully understanding the differences. Thanks! #askfathermike
Maybe this willl help. Many (not all) Protestants believe that faith alone in Christ is all that matters due to their misunderstanding of the words of St. Paul, in which they believe Paul speaks in favor of faith over works. But in fact, Paul is not speaking of works in the sense of doing good deeds, but rather what he terms "works of the law" - which were all of those traditional repetitious acts Jews had to perform each week, such as ritual washings etc. The Catholic position, therefore, has always been that faith goes hand in hand with works (good deeds), for as St. Augustine famously said, 'God does not choose to save us without our own cooperation.' Hope this helps!
Hey Meghan, two great speakers on this are Steve Rey and Tim Staples who are both converts to the catholic faith and we’re devout Protestants before. They are phenomenal !!! They do multiple videos on the difference between the two beliefs and give deep rooted examples and evidence dating back to the first Christians and church history along with quoting directly from scripture . Check them out 😀
@The Miserable Man The difference is just more kneeling, right? Just kidding. Another major difference is The Magisterium. When a catholic goes to the Priest with a problem,
the priest arrives at a dictum after consulting with The Magistrate (a hierarchy of men). For example: homosexuality used to be against the rules, now, it has been deemed
by these men, to be an acceptable practice; Divorce was once a grave offense (sin) against persons, the family and the whole culture, now it's just fine.
When Protestants go to the church with a problem, the Reverend says: "Let's go to The Book for an answer". For The Protestant, The Bible, the Divinely inspired Word of The Lord, is the source for answers. A true believer in Christ calls no earthly man "Father". As it is written:
"But you are not to be called ‘rabbi,’ for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
Neither be called ‘masters,’ for you have one master, the Christ" (Matt. 23:8-10).
Thank you, Fr. Mike! Needed this!
What if you pass away with mortal sin and your highly remorseful, will God give you a second chance at your judgment to get rid of your sin and at least go through purgatory instead of eternal damnation
All sin is forgiven by grace through Faith. For it is imputed (laid to our account) righteousness. He (God) is faithful and Just to forgive all sin and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. We have a great High Priest, Jesus. He is superior to all man-made priests. He lives forever, and intercedes on our behalf. We are clothed in HIS righteousness. We are called children of God and no longer slaves. Amen!
I highly encourage that you research multiple known-to-be-valid Catholic resources like websites and books to see what the Church's teaching is on this, as I know that your question is answered somewhere at some point. Infact I believe it is mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so that's a great place to begin looking.
@@egschmad8867 From what I've read from various sources, including the Catechism, Jesus is not bound by His Sacraments, so He does make exceptions. Each of us is judged on a case-by-case basis, and Jesus does everything He could to save a person if they have repentance in their heart.
"In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."
Well I would like to say I have been struggling with this horrible sin of cheating in school.I am fully aware it is wrong and aware of the costs.I still pray often and go to mass regularly and do the best I can as a catholic besides this point.I know it is probably a mortal sin and I commit it constantly and am struggling with it and think it’s faster etc.I However am resolving to go to confession after I complete the school year next month and completely relieve myself from cheating ever again.I am just scared I will lapse back into this horrible habit.It is even worse that I am waiting for after school to confess my sins I know but I am truly sorry and feel anguish for what I have done and yet to do.I am fine if nobody reads this but I couldn’t talk about it to anyone so I put it somewhere .
If you can please pray for me or just send a thought to god for me
You could even make an appointment with your local priest to go to confession. I'm sure that's a great option. Let me know if you do go or when you do.
Are you sure it’s not a veinal sin, I had that problem and my priest in the eastern Catholic Church said it’s veinal
Thank you Father. God bless you.
I have a question... If one were to commit what would be a mortal sin, but it's missing one of the three requirements for a sin to be mortal, would the act not be a sin altogether then? Or would it be a venial sin? Or would it depend on the specific act?
Chaos3000and3 If it does not fulfill all three requirements, it is venial.
Chaos3000and3 I have an idea... Go check what the Bible and what Jesus says and teaches about mortal and venial sin. Oh wait...
One of the ten commandments is do not take the name of the Lord thy God in vein
Clearly explained, thank you father.
Gbu
I want to go to confession I am afraid/embarrassed to say my mortal sin how can I over come this
Nick Your boi I'm late, but I'll try to answer anyway. Well, I would try and remember that no matter what you've done, chances are that the priest has heard the same sin or much worse. He's probably heard decades of sins, chances are he's heard yours. Also, priests aren't perfect either, I'm sure they have committed mortal sins as well whether that be before the priesthood or during. They might have even done your exact sin as well. So, it is scary to confess your sins, there is no way to get around the fear most of the time, but I think you can get through it (and maybe you already have considering it's been 3 months😂). Praying for you❤️
Nick Your boi Finally, did you went to the confessional? :-) ?
Do not be afraid! I fell away from my faith and was ashamed and broken for the last 12 years of my life and stayed away from confession but knew I couldn’t receive the precious Eucharist . All I can say is grace is real and I felt so compelled to go to confession. My life changed the day I walked out of confession and I go every 3 weeks or so and receive the Eucharist. I am happier than I’ve ever been. I highly suggest reading St. Faustina diary. I also suggest reading the 7 secrets to confession. Life changing. Also find a priest you can truly make a regular confession to. They are your spiritual guide. You are going into the confessional to meet Jesus truly present . He already knows your sins, but it takes humility to kneel down and tell Jesus you are sorry. I was so prideful for so many years harboring sin and anger. Once I let that go I was free. My first confession back was on the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows! I love confession now. It is truly a gift and when you can receive the Eucharist it restores your life. Also go to Adoration and tell Jesus you are scared and to give you the grace and the push to go . I hope this helps.
Just pray about it, and when your talking to the priest, just blurt it out without thinking
+Sébastien Bédard I masturbated ONLY once as a child, but as a 22 years young adult I never masturbated again, but what I'm asking is are EVIL and blasphemous thoughts a sin?
Blockages can be an exception but not knowing or forgetting is 100% on you