Father Larry, you are the best. In the mid 90's (I forget the date) I attended one of your 4 day sessions in Exeter NH. There was a sign in front of the church that said: YOU WILL NOT BE BORED, AND YOUR LIFE WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER. It sooooooooo was changed. You brought me back to the church. I had been gone for decades. I can never thank you enough.
This is EXACTLY what I needed to hear before attending the Penitential Mass tomorrow night, I was feeling so anxious about my Confession for many of the same reasons as the writer. I'm feeling much more at ease...thank you Father Larry, may God continue to bless you.
It's weird that I found you and you told me exactly what I needed to hear...I've been grinding about this same exact problem for a long time...so thank-you and thank-you God or maybe the other way around .
Thank you father you will never know how much that meant to me! Thank you for your wise words! I am focusing on The Almighty one my father Jesus Christ ❤
I've been struggling this with for the last 2 years since coming back to the Church. Not even a week ago though, another Priest made a video about this same topic with a complete different answer. This is killing me.
Thank you father Larry , for it is my anguish not knowing how to do it rightly. Jesus, l ‘m sorry for my sins, Jesus, l trust in You, amen! Jesus, forgive me, pardon grant me, amen
When I confess my sins in confession I end it with “For these and all the sins of my past life, I am heartily sorry”. I have done this for every confession in my life since I was very very young. 🙏❤️🙏 I can’t remember correctly, but I think one of my grade school Nuns taught me this.
I have asked a number of priests, and half contradict the other half. No wonder there is so much anxiety. Surely something like this should be standard no matter which priest you ask.???
Be comforted then - you missed the vital context! "God knows your sin, but he calls you by name. The devil knows your name, but he calls you by your sin".
Doesn't the church teach that one is obligated to bring unconfessed mortal sins from the past to confession, and if one doesn't do so, it is a sacrilege?
This is Moe from Fr Larry's office, I will put out your question for his LIVE Thursday 3pm EST podcast - www.youtube.com/@frlarryrichards He will not be on this week because of Holy Week.
36 And when you take a girl that a man brought into the world and dishonour her without dowering her, that is to say that you sleep with her without dowering her, whether she wanted it or not, you are a thief and the Bible says that thieves will not go to Heaven. If a wandering chicken has a guardian, it is not a girl who will not have any. And I cannot understand how such men repented and they are pastors in the evangelical churches. It is in the house of your husband that you must lose your virginity, otherwise you are a curse for your parents and for the whole earth. And a man has no right to sleep with a woman that he has not dowered. Such a man is a curse for himself, for his house and for the whole earth. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. [Kc.18v8] [Kc.52v6] #ProphetKacouPhilippe
See now I always learned that yes, all your sins are forgiven in confession, but if you remember a mortal sin you forgot you still have to mention it at your next confession. Maybe this isn't true for a convert who can't possibly remember everything from decades ago.
