How To Have A Great Confession | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 

Wow! Thank you, Father Pine

The more frequently you go, the easier and more complete the confession is as you become more aware of your faults and sins. Also, the priest is there in persona Christi meaning you are actually in the presence of Christ Himself (who already knows everything about you) fear not, His love and mercy knows no bounds!!!

This cannot be just a coincidence. I was praying about this topic just yesterday. God is good and works in mysterious ways 🙏

I am converting to Catholicism; I am completely intimidated by confessing a lifetime of sin. Can I even recognize it all? God worked through me, this sinner, with such grace-- as both a social worker and a Pastoral Clinical Counselor. I trust my will to convert. I look forward to my very first confession. I appreciate your distinction between regret and contrition--and this state of recounting our sin, with great regret, as something God has allowed so we can be contrite and seek sincere redemption). I seek redemption. However, I am still quite nervous about "doing confession wrong." Thank you for this tutorial, Father Pine. The act of contrition you provide is nice to have. Thank you. Peace

Every catholic needs this type of instruction and guidance for the great healing sacrament of confession. Thank you Father. Great.

Lots of little, yet profound gems. Love hearing Fr. Pine speak

What a saintly Priest. Thank you fr. Gregory!

Oh my Jesus. Forgive us our sins. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.

Father Pine, this is the best talk on confession I've ever heard! Brilliant, clear, beautifully helpful! Thank you. Ps: you're an excellent teacher.

Wow, I like this priest.

Thank you for repeating the Act of Contrition! That prayer is very similar to the one I was taught many decades ago in Catholic school. Thank you and God Bless.❤

Fr Pine I heartily would like to thank you for this beautiful and useful teaching. Being Easter/Lent, I needed it now more than at any other time. May GOD bless you and protect you always.

I simply love Fr. Gregory's expressions, both verbal and facial 😂

Confession is one thing, being able to truly repent is a gift of GRACE.

Father Pine you have a wonderful way of communing with your audience. Really perfect for the younger population. God Bless you Father Pine.

I’m not a person to have my ears tickled anymore the truth set me free so I don’t mine to hurt from the truth now I’m so glad there’s people out there tell as is amen

Yes, you are a nerdy, churchy, kinda Dominican doggie, Fr. Pine. God is so happy with you!! Great job sharing your special talent so we sinful plebians can be more pleasing to God as well. Thank you St. Dominic for nabbing this guy into your awesone Order of Preachers.

Thanks be To GOD and Blessed Virgin Mary 🙏🏽 I chance upon this, excellent explanation of Sacrament of Confession 🙏🏽 To GOD BE THE GLORY 🙏🏽 Thank you Fr. Pine 🌲

Thank you Fr. Greg...just what I needed✝

Awesome👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼... Outstanding preacher. Prayers Fr Pine

Condensed Catholic teaching. Many thanks, Fr. Pine for this presentation. God blessmyou and your followers.

Where was this talk when I was going through RCIA. Maybe I have grown in my faith enough to now understand you. Fantastic talk. Thank you. Praying for you.

Thank you father for being helpful to us that is gods grace. You are giving forward his love! Many blessings to you!

Amazing... Hey to my fellow Catholic-curious, y'all should start Here!!! 📣

I recommend this Act of Contrition, coming from our hearts ❤️ “O my God, I am heartly sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend you, my God, who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.”

Confess when the moment has matured to do so, not just because. Confession is per se for mortal sin; therefore, anything else would be a devotional confession, devotional as different from necessary. Dont just do the list, confess what is your struggle

God Bless you Fr Pine, thank you!!

This would help me the next time i do confession. Thank you, Fr. Gregory! May the grace of God be with you.

This is one of your best talks…usually I feel like you are over my head with content and words…maybe it’s beyond needed this. Played on way to confession.

Wow.. I literally watched this video at 4am because I couldn’t sleep, decided to go to confession two days later only to have Fr. Gregory pine himself as my confessor and then do a bad confession 😭😭

this gives me joy and hope, amazing

Thank you for your speech, it filled some empty thoughts and questions. God bless you

Good!! But sometimes difficult, NOT to become emotional while confessing...

sweet Christmas! love this priest

Thank You for the tips!

Superb! This should be in every religious ed program as well as on a card with a link in churches.

Thank you father

Thank you!

thank you so much for this talk I wish i had heard it many years ago you have cleared up so much for me that i have been holding in ways negative to me and my Chritian life God bless you ! You are doing Gods work

I grew up in a Dominican parish 80's-90's, and NONE of the friars explained confession like Fr. Pine. It was no mercy, no help, no hope. In fact, I had a priest tell me I ruined my life...led me into intense scrupulosity and then a downward spiral of despair , self harm to stop myself from sinning, mental hospital, substance abuse etc

I have never heard an explanation of confession. I am a convert and I realise all these years later how little preparation to be received into the was actually given by the priest who prepared me. I am 89 in a country that it is difficult to find Mass and the church I attended used the confessional as a storage area. Americans do not think you are being deprived of access to the TLM have no idea what it is like in other countries Pray for us.

Thank you for your effort. Praying for you continue to grow in holiness🙏🏻

Thank you Fr. Pine, for your guidance to a good confession. God bless!! 🙏🙏🙏

Amen Amen Amen Thank you Thank you Thank you

Father, seriously, I would be worse than a mess if following the "minimum requirements'" of One Confession & One Communion per year... The Sacrament of Confession is much more helpful every 2'weeks, if spiritual progress is not to be impeded/ delayed And Communion on Sundays+ Would be wonderful to receive Communion at daily mass - and those who still are able to get to a Mass daily ....would benefit greatly to do so.💐🙏✨ Btw: as a former smoker: I needed 15 YEARS of efforts to finally arrive at self-identifying as a non-smoker What makes quitting difficult: Over 100 pleasurable elements are mixed in with dozens of poisons, a few examples: Sugar, Chocolate, Orange flavoring Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove, Lavender, Strawberry flavor... ALL of the hundreds of poisonous chemicals & pleasurable nutritional/ flavorable features woven into cigarettes used to be listed on the Philipp Morris Website (20 years ago) Anyone working at getting free of any addiction: Holy God will help you If you do not give up+💖

Thank you Fr Pine.

Thank you so much for this! I so needed this! ❤

21:42 thank you. The assurance I have now is because I know with certainty that God took from me that which with my own will I could not overcome in 33 years.

For your guidance and help. Fr.Pine Thankyou..

Thank you for this! I really needed to hear this. I will listen to it a couple more times.

THANK YOU FATHER! Words I needed to hear. God Bless you. Pray for me a poor sinner! Amen

Perfect, perfect,❤

Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins save us from the fires of hell lead all soles to heaven especally those in most need of thy mercy.

Thank you Lord for answering my problem today.GOD IS SO GOOD .sana masolve pa ang iba kong kahilingan.Love you Jesus .

Thank you, Father ✝️

Thank you Father🙏❤️

Thank you, this is helpful

This is the true Contrition Prayer that touches my heart: Act of Contrition O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen.

Thank you Fr.for your guidance for the healing sacrament of penance

This is such great guidance and information

Thank you Fr Gregory🙏🏻

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO YOU SIR ..... AMEEN

Thank you Father! Very helpful video.

T 32:27 hank you very much Rev. Gregory Pine, OP. Your guide re confession is greatly appreciated. 23:17 23:24 ❤

Thankyou fr. For a good confection

Praise be to God!

Thank you father and reviewing our sins repentant conversion sorry ray before confession repentance thanking fiat fiat fiat Jesus desires all to live in Gods Divine Will Thanksgiving fiat fiat fiat ❤❤❤

Thank you Father pray for you Amen.

Thank you for posting, thank God for sending my way. Not by chance I stumbled here. “Worthy Churchy Causes”

Thank you so much for helping and guiding those like me who have been away from the Church some time 🙏🏻😌

On my way to confession, thank you for this 🙏

thank you for this. i made a wonderful confession yesterday with the thoughts from your video

You are the cutest!!! Such a Gina comment. ❤

Thank you Father .I had problems with going to confession

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Your pretty cool father.❤🎉

Knowledge.

Thus a good information and thank you Father for the talk regarding confessions. 😊

I would love to see Fr. Gregory's notes - what he wrote in there, how he wrote them.

Thanks so much Fr. God Bless. PS: We still have magistrates and magistrates courts in South Africa today 😊 Then high courts with judges 😊

I confess to Almighty God. Jesus,and Mother Mary. I ask and pray to heavenly Angels and Saints. I pray forgiveness of my sins.

I'm waiting for my priest to call me to set up a time to talk with me I recently started going back to church and have not done a confession in 20 years or more. I'm a bit nervous but I bless the Lord to help me and I know he will. I was not married in the church so therefore I cannot receive communion until everything is taken care of. I have however been receiving communion but will no longer do so until this is Justified I love the Lord and he has done great things for me and I'm just trying to do the right thing by him thank you for sharing this has made me feel a bit better. God bless you

Amen🙏🏻❤️

Wow. I love this. It is great. And yes, I never thought a few Hail Mary's, or Our Fathers was very just considering my sins. God is So Merciful❤ P.s., I hated smoking. For the last 20 years of my 40 years of smoking, I would hide it from people. I never smoked in public; or in my residence. I was ashamed that it had control over me. I was completely addicted to it. I despised the stench of it. I despised how old and unhealthy it made me; both in how I looked and how I felt. Mother Mary broke the chain. It was her. I couldn't have done it without her. It's been 7 years now smoke free. Thank you Blessed Mother.🙏🕊❤✝️📿

While I had exactly the same reaction as Fr. Mike regarding a flood of tears (even sobs) that I had to stifle so as not to disturb the others in the small theater, I disagree with his critique that it lacked explicit "God" references. I felt God's presence enormously. I am reminded that "naming You is all in vain." God is the unnanable. As beautifully shown in Exodus when Moses cries out "show me your face." God puts him in the cleft of the rock, covers him with His hand and passes by so Moses can only see him from behind. This is more, I think, our experience of God. We understand afterwards what has happened to us. I felt God's presence fully and quietly throughout the movie and as such was overwhelmed with emotion and tears. Explicit God references MAY have defeated the movie's impact on the unchurched or even nonbelievers. For the believer, for the Catholic, I contend that the movie clearly showed God's presence in Cabrini's life.

Bless you Father, I have sinned. Pray for me.

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Thank you, Fr Gregory

If I don’t go every week, I can barely stay in the state of Grace.

Thank you and God bless you Father Pavone and Alex McFarland for all you do. 🙏

Please link to the examination of the virtues by the Dominican sisters.

Our priests ask us to go confession no oftener than once a month.

please pray for me .

Lord forgive me for all my sins.I repent all my sins.Have mercy on me im a poor sinners.

Si helpful .Please write the act of contrition in the description? Thank you

Amen alleluia alleluia amen ✝️💝✅🌎🌟…

ST. TERESA OF LISIEUX: “It is not because I have been preserved from serious sin that I lift up my heart to God in trust and love. I am certain that even if I had on my conscience every imaginable sin, I should lose nothing of my confidence, but would throw myself, my heart broken with sorrow, into the arms of my Savior.”

What I hate is going into a confessional to find it fully lit with the priest behind a transparent screen and nothing but a comfortable chair to sit on instead of a kneeler..all anonymity is gone and that does not make me feel like I can be truly open and honest about my sins..I don't go to confession to have a friendly chat with a priest, it's a real put off to me.

I try to go every two weeks. AVE MARIA…

John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness