Concerning Mortal Sin...

[Selah]

Okay, I have a question...let's say I commit a mortal sin. later, I realize what I have done and confess them to God. I also make a plan to go to confession. However, I realize that the Priest at my home parish is out of town, and the other Priest is holding a wedding celebration, so he will not be able to hear my confession.

So, I schedele a confession with my Priest in 2 days. Now, in those two days, before I could get to confession, say I die suddenly...because I never made it to confession, would I merit hell? or, because my intent was to go to confession, would I merit heaven, or even purgatory?

I have another question. Say I don't die (lol, sorry I'm being so confusing) and that in those 2 days, I work at repairing my relationship with God. I say the rosary, I spend time reading the Bible, etc...now, would God still be able to hear me and commune with me, even though I hadn't made it to confession to confess my mortal sin?

Hope that wasn't too confusing. If it was, let me know! Thanks!

Ida

Edited November 17, 2008 by Lil Red

[cappie]

canon 916:

[i]A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition which includes the resolution of confessing as soon as possible.[/i]

What this canon is talking about is a person who has not been to confession and who can't go. That person needs to make an act of perfect contrition in order to get back into a state of grace and thus able to take Communion, and making an act of perfect contrition includes the will to go to confession when it is possible (and reasonable) to do so.

The Code formulates this in terms of going "as soon as possible," but what it means by this is as soon as it is possible and reasonable for a person to go.

That being said then one would be able to "commune" with God in the normal way