Does God Forgive Sins If I Forget to Confess? w/ Fr. Mark Goring

solace griffis says uh i came back to the church last year and had my first confession 30 years glory to jesus christ i feel like i can't move on though because i keep remembering sins that i forgot ah to confess from my past oh glory to jesus christ he says how can i be forgiven of everything yeah beautiful question um i mean what what i do every time i go to confession if ever i can if i ever kind of remember something from the past that i don't think i've ever confessed before i i just mention it when i go to confession and i i think that's all the lord expects of us i mean like if there's something from the past that's weighing on you just just confess it the next time you go to confession you know and the lord is reasonable like he doesn't like if if you prepare honestly for confession and confess the sins that you you know you've you've committed that you can remember the lord forgives you all the sins of your whole life including the ones you've forgotten he forgives everything he makes you totally new um and like i said if there is something i said oh wait a minute i just remembered like for me sometimes it's more attitudes i had or just things maybe i didn't do or and it's just like ah like i i now realize at that time in my life i was so whatever you know like selfish and didn't care for this person and it's it's more kind of an insight and if it's kind of grieving me and weighing on me the next time i go to confession i'll just mention it so that i i know that i've spoken it in confession and got not off my chest so don't can i if you go ahead well i just want to quote aquinas here because aquinas would tell you you've already been forgiven and need not confess these sins again so he and i'll read from him directly so you know i'm not making this up and i know you know this father mark if if i go to you for confession and i willingly withhold a serious sin that i've committed this is a sacrilege and my confession is invalid and none of the sins that i confessed have been forgiven but if i go to father mark for confession and i confess to the best of my memory and ability all of the serious sins i've committed if i walk out of that confession after absolution and remember a sin that i forgot genuinely to confess that's been forgiven i want to i want to share here something that aquinas says in the summer he says this some say that when a man remembers a sin which he had previously forgotten he ought to confess again the sins which he had confessed before especially if he cannot go to the same priest to whom his previous confession was made in order that the total quantity of his sins may be made known to one priest but this does not seem necessary because sin takes its quantity both from itself and from the conjunction of another and as to the sins which he confessed he has already manifested their quantity which they have of themselves while as to the sin which he had forgotten in order that the priest may know the quantity which it has under both this is getting deep sorry both of the above heads it is enough that the penitent declare it explicitly and confess the others in general saying that he had confessed many sins in his previous confession but have forgotten this particular one okay that clearly is not the exact thing that i was looking for so let me see if i can find it again because i think this is really really important to people because they can get so hung up that if i don't remember every serious sin i've ever committed then somehow i'm still in mortal sin and won't be saved this is not the teaching of the church yeah you all you need to do is confess as best you can the sins you remember and and and kind of confessing something you've forgotten it it's just as much kind of for your own personal like i said if something is weighing on you just mention it in confession and you'll be free of that kind of sense of whatever guilt and shame and so yeah the lord's mercy like it's so important if you if you genuinely want to receive god's mercy and your story for your sins like don't be afraid like you're good the lord is so pleased with you you know and and then just you know do things as best you can as a and you know a guilt driven spirituality is never good and you don't advance as quickly in the spiritual life when it's guilt that's driving you you know there should be a sense that you know god loves me so much that i don't need to be afraid i i mean i need to be you know repentant of my sins but uh yeah thank you for watching this clip you can click here to watch the full episode and i want to say a big thanks to our sponsors and to our amazing patrons for making all of this possible please do us a favor before you go click that subscribe button and then the bell and that way youtube will be forced to let you know every time we put out a new episode

Channel: Pints With Aquinas

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Id: VKm7hOnDm20

Length: 5min 4sec (304 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021