How to Make a Good Confession ~ Fr Ripperger 

I’m going to confession tomorrow after 40 years… the devil is messing me up now… guess he knows what’s coming.

I never tire listening to Fr. Ripperger. He explained very clear and elloquently. God bless priests

I'm preparing for a confession after 7 years away in confusion and pain. I am troubled due to abuse from my family, my mother and my grandmother. However, my mother did not abort me, she allowed me life and gave me to my grandmother. My grandmother abused me but she was the one that made sure I was baptized and attended the catholic school. She didn't follow the church's teaching due to her own history but I do recognize that this was one of the most important things that she for me. I will learn to deal with my anger and pain over my past through the grace of God and learn to pray for my abusers (most are dead now) who are either in hell or in purgatory. Please pray for me to make a good confession today. We Catholics are so blessed to have the holy sacrament of confession. God is good.

Best advice I ever had regarding Confession: Be brief, be brutal, be gone.

I seriously could listen to Father all day !

Confession makes me a better person and it makes it easier to forgive those who have offended me.

Eloquent and well defined, this is the talents God gave to Fr Ripperger. I love how he has no delusions when freeing a soul of demons that IT IS Christ, not himself, that frees them. Amen, Father!

Thank God in my church Father is always in the confesional 30 minutes before mass and a good number of penitents are always in line. 🙋🏻‍♀️

One quickly realizes why being a truly consistent Catholic is so difficult. In the end, it seems, very few of us will make it to heaven.

Thank you Fr God Bless you - praying three Hail Marys for you and all Priests - all y'all please pray for mercy & conversion of sinners

Remember demons can try to confuse you and sidetrack you while compiling your list of sins for confession. They can even mess with you during confession if you're not careful. It happens to me so I'm sure it happens to others too.

I've been embarrassed to confess. Need to prepare and need to make my list.

That was helpful, Father. Thank you and God bless you.

Lord today will be the confession of all confessions for me. Today at 4 pm I will go and look into your eyes and pour out my heart, like never before. Lord my god I am grateful for this beautiful sacrament. This repeat sin cycle I have been trapped in is about to disappear finally. You have moved my spirit burning with a FULL contrition. A lesson within lessons. I am ready lord. I will complete this today and changed forever

Remind as many priests as possible that they should be available for confession 30 minutes before each mass, sitting in the confessional. They should also remind their flocks of the importance of Confession

Father you made me more scared of confessing than I always have been, God bless you father but it seems very complicated now especially that I’m not very sure about the mortal sin except the obvious ones, and that’s why I don’t feel relieved or clean after confession I feel like somehow I did it wrong and committed a sacrilegious instead, may the Holy spirit guide us all 🙏

Do not take Confession for Granted.. It is heart breaking when it is hard to find. Sometimes even when its scheduled that the Priest should be there.. They aren't. That is why... I am so grateful to God every time I finally get to one. It is frustrating to try and keep up with the Sacraments when those shepherding us don't do it. Confession is a Gift!!

Learned so much from this quick RU-vid video. I've listened to it before and will listen again. I just keep my old habits and forget this beautiful tutorial on something it seems I need constantly.

I feel so nervous before confession

Thank you Lord and our Blessed Mother for Father Ripperger. I love how he gives specific instructions, his directness is a huge help.

Thank you Father. Had my confession last year after over 20 years probably or more and I was so nervous and it was kinda messy, unorganized! Blessings to the priest who tried his best to understand me!

Although this video is not about the Rosary, can we get everyone who reads this comment to start / continue to pray all 15 decades of it every day? It definitely aids in understanding and properly using the sacraments and thus builds up virtue and contrition for sins, thus enabling us to have better confessions by increasing our holiness through good habits.

I’m almost 75 and I still don’t know how to really catalog and remember all my sins. I wish priests would teach more about sin in homilies.

Fr. Chad R. I give praise to the Lord for crossing our paths.

Very concise and to the point discussion. Thank you Father Ripperger . It is much appreciated. +

Confession is good. I went to confession and my addiction got eradicated.

Amazing clear on point. God bless fr Ripperger

God Bless you Fr!

Thanks Fr. Ripperger for these words on confession.

Thank you

Well. There were a few good tips here. However, mostly it made me more uncomfortable about going to confession. I mean, it seems to be a whole lot of things I can do wrong more than right while trying to confess the wrongs I have done. Also, I am older and still not clear on what a mortal sin is. The lesser sins give me enough trouble with guilt and cons of disappointment in me. Sometimes I feel like I’m seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion and other times I wish I was seven again and getting ready for a first holy communion.

Veterans: The beginning healing of my spiritual wounds that translated clarity of mind, body and soul, carried away after 40 years of saying, I confess my sins to God, not man (I was ignorant of persona Christi). A beautiful stripping of sickness. Don’t walk to the confessional, run!

Thanks father.

God bless you. Thank you. Bless God. Bless His Church.

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis.

Best advice, guidance I have ever heard on confession.

Love you Fr

Thank you for this clarifying information. Hopefully, my confessions will be much better for me and the priest!

Thank you this will help me out so much. Awesome

Thank you Father 🙏🙏🙏

I love Confession . It cleans your consciousness and makes you feel so much lighter .❤

Thank you, Father!! So helpful!

Thanks Fr. Now I know more on how to properly do it. 🙏

I have deliverance list, meaning bad habits that I have collected over a few decades. I highlight what is actually a sin. This narrows down my confession list.

I used to do confession when I was a little girl

Thank you Fr. It was very instructive. However the recording I received appears to have skipped the explanation regarding the obligation of one who hears another person's confession. Thank you.

At 0:22, this is how I made my confession while visiting in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Born & raised in N.O. rite, with closed door confessionals, this made me so nervous to be so out in the open, with the confession line just a few feet away. I know now this is the traditional way men make confession.

I think that at 14: 50 Father was about to say that if we overhear someone else's confession, we are never to divulge it. I think the recording just had a skip in it.

this priest is tough 😮

In the last 10 years of going to confession the priest have stopped me or said to me that's enough. I do go over my sins before going into confession!

I will love to give all my sins to Jesus inorder to change my life from bad to good.

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Glory be to God through Jesus, Mary and StJoseph! Respectfully, plz remain on complete guard my brothers and sisters through Christ for your soul and the souls of others! That includes families and friends and yes our enemies! Learn to recognize your enemy as a soldier in battle. God save us!

Jesus is our High Priest.❤

Nice to see how to go to confession fiat properly and get absolution . And forgiveness fiat ❤

75 and cradle Catholic and Latin Mass ....i found this profoundly important and informative. I have been so grateful that i learned about & bought The New Roman Missal. Fr. Lasance. I read and applied all in the section of preparing for Reconciliation...went to Latin Mass at a NO parish w/a NO Priest that can say Latin Mass ( not a high mass yet) and he said that most all i was confessing was not a sin! 2nd NO priest that has said that. I feel they are too out of touch because of the NO seminary training I guess.

John 20:23

I never knew you were supposed to say how many times you committed a sin. Thank you, Father.

There is also *IMPERFECT CONTRITION* - - which is expressing contrition (not because you believe you’ve offended God) but because of other reasons (i.e. - you believe it’s wrong, you regret doing it, concern about the consequences, etc). It’s important to be honest and tell the priest if it’s *imperfect contrition* - - which is still helpful because (1) you’re being truthful, (2) it helps the priest understand where you are in your spiritual life / growth. (Many people - perhaps most - are initially more concerned with being punished themselves - before they even realize the idea of offending God. Just as children are more concerned with getting in trouble with their parents - before realizing that their parents could be upset by their actions.)

14:26 "but the seal of confession also applies to people that aren't the priest...we're not talking about the person who's confessing because he has a right to say things on his own provided prudence and these other circumstances which I've mentioned before. Observe, but he has a right to divulge what's in his own interior life, he has that right; however, if you happen to hear someone else's confession..." it get's cut off to 14:52 "...also make sure to mention your state in life" I'd like to ask what the end of the first statement was, concerning what happens when a person who is not the priest hears another person's confession. Thank you.

Love the appropriate facepalm at 1:18

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if anyone wavers if they should go to confession, I can share that a great remorse can come even after the confession. It is hurtful but also beautiful to see the seriousness of one's sins. I also had a demon encounter once at night after. So i know it does work, just sayin'

I want to go to confession but I’m a little nervous it’s been 46. Years 🤷‍♂️ Nothing serious a lot of your basic sins ! None the less there sins I don’t know where to begin 🙏

7:45 - - species, number + circumstances

Father can you plssss tell us sins that we do them during the day and we Don t know it a sin pls

They edited This video? Why?

It's a trend right now for priests to take a long time in confession. That's fine if you're one of the first five people in line, but for the other twenty people in line who don't get to confess it's not so good.

Father, The part where you explain the seal of confession as it pertains to persons who have for some reason overheard someone’s confession . What should be done. It seems like the instructions where incomplete or cut off. I also have question concerning priest and confessor bringing in cellphones into the confessional.

What is the music at the end of the video? Thanks!!

Will someone explain the "I'm a married man" thing to me?

Does Father Ripperger have an e-mail address?

Im confused about the part where Father says not to reveal our sins because it causes scandal aren’t we supposed to confess our sins to one another? Can someone please explain. 14:34

I don’t ever go to confession don’t feel comfortable telling an stranger my personals problems . I believe that you’ll examine yourself and pray in on your own for the wrong you had done . Meditations helps me to be a good person . Is what I do .

What's emotional state?

How can i get in touch w/Fr?

14:50 audio shifts to different part of sermon

5:51 - - a vice called *loquacity* - - it means *talking too much.*

It’s hard enough to go to confession with ALL the lists of sins the Church gives. If I have anger in my heart against another I believe that’s a sin even though it’s not an action. This priest makes confession even harder.m

One time a priest accident brought a hands free mic into confessional. I heard 4 full confessions before they told him his mic was on and playing through loudspeakers in the church!!!!

Anyone knows what was the word the father said in 5:56? Lupocity? Or what word is that?

Why was what he says about overhearing confession cut? I assume he just says it's a sin to repeat what you hear, which is pretty much gossiping anyway.

A Priest said that a marriage between two Catholic baptized people can not get divorced. Even if they had married at the justice of the peace… so all this time I thought I was living in sun. Then I heard another Priest saying differently. Which is what?

I was away from the Church for many years. I could not find a Church offering confession. When I did it was an old confessional with two doors. I went in to find a priest sitting on a chair, and a second chair for me. I cannot describe the shock. ( My first thought was this is unsafe. I had not discovered the sexual problems but I felt uncomfortable) That was definitely not a good confession. I think the priest was confused as it was normal to him. The parish I attended offered confession once in the open. COVID was not long after and I had recourse to the internet and looking for Mass on line led me to the SSPX. Unfortunately are only in the big cities and not in line here. The found the Novus Ordo mass in the dark east for Sunday's. This led to my finding the SSPX and have heard Mass from Australia at 2am and the USA. in the mid afternoon 0 There is no Catholic Church where I live and at one stage a priest used to say mass in a private house Now the Catholics are going to the Protestant Church. Please pray for South Africa

confession is not an easy thing to undefstand 😩

“If you hear someone else’s confession...” What is it?

What about people with mental health issues?

So does species mean if we entertained a lustful thought, we should say who it was about?

Just wondering, if, for example, you kill someone. does confessing it take the sin away or will you be required to go to the authorities and admit the killing too complete.the repentance process?

what if im kind of low iq so its hard for me to be so precise?

In the Bible sin is generally excused if done to save a life that you should live by my Commandments and not die. How is lying something to avoid even if you are killed?

Jesus Christ gave us the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). He saved us baptized with the Holy Spirit from original sin we inherited. Sins committed after have to be confessed, absolved and penance served to be forgiven by God. 2 Corinthians 5:18 But all is of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19 For certainly God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not charging them with their sins. And he has placed in us the Word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God. John 20:21 Therefore, he said to them again: “Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” John 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: “Receive the Holy Spirit. John 20:23 Those whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and those whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” Matthew 16:17 And in response, Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven. Matthew 16:18 And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall release on earth shall be released, even in heaven.” Matthew 18:18 Amen I say to you, whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven. Luke 9:1 Then calling together the twelve Apostles, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. Luke 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the infirm.

Her husband didn't like the cake so he shot the dog 😂

This isn’t a good video to watch before my very first confession coming up. Makes me nervous to mess up. Thanks Fr.

At 5:03, Father, you state "this is a tribunal of justice". Yet, in St. Maria Faustina's Diary, Our Lord tells her it is "the Tribunal of MERCY". Our Lord is very clear about that. The court is at the moment of death---"Settle with your opponent while on your way to court..." (Mt. 5:25). Court, in the passage refers not to the confessional, but to the Lord's Court of Justice that occurs at the end of or lives. Jesus---and the Church's teaching--is clear that while on earth, we are given Our Lord's mercy. His Divine Justice occurs once we leave this earth.

Cos ones I hear that we sin 7 time a day

Father said, in this video, that all sins are forgivable save one but he didn’t say what that one is! Could someone explain?

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