Confession And Absolution Pt2

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

Pax domini...
I hear and understand most of what you both said and i had a friend tell me once to finnish ones confession with " and the sins i have forgotten that remain hidden." Which i haven't been practising but hopefully now being told a second time will. What i'm still iffy about and please forgive me if i'm showing a lack of respect by not just accepting what you both have said, what i'm iffy about is that if i'm conciouse of mortal sin than how can i take the holy eucharist without incuring the judgement of GOD because i'm not in a state of grace. I think saint paul said something like that we must examine our concience before recieving the body of christ." And the church teaches one must be in a state of grace to recieve the holy communion." Maybe i have the wrong idea as to what a state of grace is. I'm sorry i'm a bit of a hard head at times and with my paranoid psycosis and scitzo affective disorder i don't really move unless i have a certain amount of understanding. This confession and absolution thing came up for me a few years ago but hasn't surfaced since and the priest back than i think (am not 100 percent sure) that he said the sin i forgot was absolved also and i need not worry about it. I feel stupid still not understanding. I just don't wan't to defile the holy sacrament of the alter and in doing so incuring the judgement of GOD, which i know st paul says is there only to avoid us hell, words to that effect anyway. But i don't wan't to incure this anyway delibrately or stupidly.

Onward christian souls.
JESUS iz LORD.
GOD is GOOD, GOD is LOVE, GOD SAVES.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Tab'le Du'Bah-Rye

[cappie]

From the Code of Canon Law:
CHAPTER III : THE PENITENT
Can. 987 In order that the faithful may receive the saving remedy of the sacrament of penance, they must be so disposed that, repudiating the sins they have committed and having the purpose of amending their lives, they turn back to God.

Can. 988 §1 The faithful are bound to confess, in kind and in number, all grave sins committed after baptism, of which after careful examination of conscience [b]they are aware,[/b](emphasis mine) which have not yet been directly pardoned by the keys of the Church, and which have not been confessed in an individual confession.

§2 The faithful are recommended to confess also venial sins.

First off --when you confessed all mortal sins you were conscious of after your good examine (I assume you were sorry and amended not only for them but for all..which would include any you forgot) --then any forgotten ones can be said to have been "indirectly absolved". Thus you would have been restored to grace...to life.

Now secondly, We are[u] obliged[/u] to confess forgotten mortal sins (if they do not remain forgotten) in the next confession if we remember them.

So as it stands now --(since you made that good confession thinking all was confessed) without the committing of new mortal sins-- one would be in a state of grace (and can receive Holy Communion) but in ones next confession one would need remedy the past...then go on for the future.

But remember...honestly forgotten mortal sins..are absolved at the same time as those confessed --so long as one is of course contrite etc for all ones mortal sins. One has to confess them still if they emerge from unconsciousness but no worries if they never do for it is impossible to remember something one can not remember (though of course we are to make a good examine).