To those who complain about the children in this recording and at Mass: Children are the future of the church. They must be present and not hidden away. Rejoice the new generation and the parents that take them to Mass. As a parent, it's hard. I'd rather leave mine at home, but that's not what God wants. Have tolerance and pray for these young Catholics.
You are right to bring your children- it is easier not to but all those children, who are baptised, have just as much right to be present in the Church as anyone else. All baptised Catholics have the right to be in the church.
Salty Idaho. Some time ago there was a complaint against noisy children at the Latin Mass I attend. The chapel leadership responded by placing a notice in the weekly bulletin: "The presence of children is a gift to the Church. They are members of our community, and a reminder that our congregation seeks to grow. We welcome ALL children, and offer a smile of encouragement to those parents who make the effort to bring them." This notice is now in the bulletin each week.
Bring your children, but teach them how to behave and be reverent in Gods Church. If they can’t be quiet, bring them in the cry room, that’s what it’s for!
Thank you Father, for telling me the truth on what a "valid" confession is. This brought me to tears, because of my many sins. I used to go to confession almost every two weeks, but because of health reasons, I haven't been able to attend Mass that often or to go to confession. Please pray 🙏 for me. That I can obtain a holy confession before my death. St. Joseph, I pray for a provided holy and happy death. For I know not the day nor the hour. I pray I am prepared 🙏🕊️. Please St Joseph and our blessed mother Mary 🙏, pray for us. +
I'm struggling indeed. I pray for all my fellow Catholics who also struggle with sin. The world we live in sure doesn't help... but as long as we keep fighting, and ask God for help, he will prevail and so will we, with his help!
Dont know when the last time I heard a homily on confession. Thank you for this, it's so important, yet priests dont talk about it as often as they should, especially when the world has lost the meaning of mercy and forgiveness.
Going to confession is one of the last things that I like to do. But, it is one of the most rewarding things that I've done. I missed several years here and there; but I've been back more readily, more frequently. Confession is a gift. We don't need intercession for reconciling things with God. People without a priest, need to hire lawyers and psychiatrists to get things off their chest! Today I've found a priest that I have a good regard for. ~~~Nancy
@@nosmoke247 It's not delusion, it's simple fact. The media is the one who lies to you, slanders the name of good cardinals, bishops, and priests. May God have mercy on us, we deserve everything we get down the line.
@@nickcardone8787 so you are calling the thousands of abused children they are liars? Seems you're deaf n dumb to the truth. Already left the proof about your delusion. Like when I tell Catholics your practicing things God hates n I quote scripture as my source n they quote the catechism which GOD hates.
I go to Confession once a month and having just listened to this very special presentation by this priest I thank God for his presentation.God bless him always.
I would happily go every month if I could simply confess everything that was against my conscience. When I made I act of contrition I would add a prayer that the Holy Spirit would convict me of anything else in the future.
This is great reminder to Catholics. The Sacrament of Penitent is one of the 7 Sacraments of the Church. and we are so blessed to be forgiven our sins at the Confession as we journey towards a promised Heaven with God if we have clean souls.
The issue of children at Mass. I cringe sometimes at the screams or such that happen, but Christ stated: ..." Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven". As for the issue of 'yoga' .. I've heard several priests and bishops state it is not wise to do if you are a Catholic, as it comes into contact with the occult, and as he stated, you open yourself up to 'things' you cannot see or are aware of, but 'they' are well aware of you.
Just a heads up to those who feel they are moved to comment innocently on posts, think twice. I recently posted a simple comment on how I miss the Latin Masses and that I personally found them more reverent than the Novus Ordo Mass, my PERSONAL opinion. My main comment to this talk was referring to what Father said about receiving our Lord in the Eucharist while in mortal sin and that it needs to be addressed more from the pulpit. That's all!! As you can see from the below comments, everything I said was misunderstood, re-worded and taken out of context. Taught me a lesson to just come quietly to these talks, thank the priest, and keep my personal opinions to myself. What a shame. As we enter into the Lenten season today let us all take this time to pray for each other, the Church, our priests, and pray that our Lord reveal in ALL of us anything that is keeping us from becoming closer to Him. God bless and have a fruitful Lent.
Too bad you don't understand the written word of God. You would get so much comfort in it. Instead your beliefs in the man made rules of the CC, and the institution itself give you a heartache. Go out and buy a Bible, read the 27 books of the New Testament and learn something about Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father, that has been held back from you by the CC
@@billsmith147 To assume the person who made this post does not have a Bible and then to also assume that they haven't even read the New Testament is extremely judgemental. The Catholic Church has Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. You'd do well to meditate on the Bread of Life Discourse in John Chapter 6 and join the hundreds of Protestant Pastors who are sacrificing much and converting to the Catholic Church for the Truth.
Thank you father. Very helpful. Re the yoga debate, it turns out that many poses were actually adapted from Danish gymnastics at the YMCA in India! This happened in the 1920s. But it remains difficult to sort out one from the other.
I have confirmed that fact more than once about Yoga. It's just gym exercises and I do a couple of them daily to keep flexible, without the new age garbage.
I was married 21 years ago outside the church and recently started going back to mass and following my faith but I never confessed the sin of not marrying in the church. What will happen to me after I confess this? Will I be kicked out of my church?
No. I had the same sins (2 marriages outside the church) I confessed these a year ago thinking naively that they didn’t count as separate sins due to not being married in the church. The other son I needed to confess was wrongfully receiving Communion while having these sins on my soul. You will be forgiven and be as new as the day of your baptism. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
TT H I recently went to a church and asked for confession and it was received on the spot. You should always have the option of requesting it at any time.
A lot of these videos talk about numbers for sins committed, if you were doing a lifetime confession and commit a sin continuously what do you say as far as the numbers are concerned?
Father, this was wonderful and much needed especially as we enter into Lent tomorrow. However, I think you should talk more on receiving our Lord in the Eucharist when in mortal sin for those of us who do not have the privilege of attending the Latin Mass as there is absolutely none in our area, so we don't have the benefits of the beautiful teachings it imparts. We never hear, or rarely I should say, teachings about sin in most Novus Ordo Masses, that's why a lot of us seek out websites like yours. Have pity on those of us who don't get fed with the True teachings of the Faith the way we should. God bless you. Three Hail Mary's for this priest.
I suspect if all the Mass were Latin Mass, we'd still have garbage Homilies in most parishes. Latin does nothing to change the heart and mind of the Priest, it just says the liturgy in a different language. Everyone at Vatican II said the Latin Mass and the worst bit of the "folk revival" was headed by people who were confirmed in the older rites.
A M All I know is what I experienced growing up and the reverence and sacredness of the Latin Mass , the Gregorian chant, and sacred music had a great impact on the people. You didn't dare have conversations with your neighbor before Mass started right in front of the Tabernacle like they do now or receive our Lord in the hand irreverently, etc. When you entered the church you knew you were in the Presence of Christ and you acted accordingly, no one had to tell you. As far as the homilies go, we had very Holy priests who taught without fear of hurting anyone's feelings, the Truth and we were better for it. I never said that just because the Mass was said in Latin that the homilies would be "moving" every time, but they were in the church I attended, I guess I was one of the fortunate ones. If you put the Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo Mass side by side, you'll see the difference and the lack of reverence in the new Mass right along with the folk music, guitar and drums and hand clapping that go on frequently. '
I do have to agree with you that a lot of the abuse of the Liturgy that is happening now did come from those in the early Vatican II days. Pity. Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way.
"As far as the homilies go, we had very Holy priests who taught without fear of hurting anyone's feelings, the Truth and we were better for it. " Unfortunately, I doubt that. It was different era, but every era had good Priests and bad Priests and in between Priests. My first Confession at 7 was with a fire and brimstone Priest who made me confess that I didn't go to Mass, because my parents didn't. What was 7 year old suppose to do, anyway about that? Yet the Priest wanted me to feel bad about it, rather than talking to my parents. It only took me 30+ years to go back to Confession. The reaction inside the church is to something real, to a culture that was too rule bound and lacked love. That said, we're too far gone the other way, with too much emphasis on feelings and not enough on the rules.
"I guess I was one of the fortunate ones. If you put the Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo Mass side by side, you'll see the difference and the lack of reverence in the new Mass right along with the folk music, guitar and drums and hand clapping that go on frequently. " I do see that. I've also been to enough Episcopalian Masses as child to say definitively that Latin is entirely unnecessary to a devout and reverent Mass. I'm not joking either, that a Latin Mass would do nothing to change the heart and mind of a guy like Fr. Martin. If it fortifies you, I'm all for having them and they should have never been "stamped out" the way they were. But Latin is not "magic" and never was. Part of me is convinced that God allowed for the Latin to be taken away so we could start to remember who we were and who were supposed to be, even if we overreacted.
I truly love you all and come here with only truth and good intentions for those that I end up cursing at because you will not provide an answer to my question but keep changing the subject my apologies I should be better but I'm working on it. so please feel free to answer me only if you can provide scripture that backs the questions I have asked eternity is forever life is short and you are not promised tomorrow
Tho I feel unqualified to answer this, I see no answer has been posted. I would let the priest know your concern upon your glorious return. Also go to this website (related to this youtube page) sensustraditionis.org/texts-online and find the document on examination of conscience.Also Fr Broom has great videos on "General Confession" where you go back over your whole life and confess all your sins. The Holy Spirit will guide you along with Our Blessed Mother to remember. Sometimes it only takes desire to remember and time. If I have said anything wrong here, I welcome additional comments for this humble soul. Joseph, Scripture states...there will be a celebration in heaven upon your return. Praying for you!
God bless you! Remember in the video the narrator says if you forget sins, they are forgiven, but you must confess them if you remember them in a later confession. God knows our hearts and has compassion on our best efforts.
I did my first communion when I was a child. I have not done my confirmation. Do I need to be confirmed before I go to confession? I have never confessed my sins.
Thank you for this information on confession. I returned to the Catholic church several years ago after having been gone for 15 years and made a general confession to a N.O. priest. I received absolution and did my penance but have since begun attending a traditional Latin mass church. I'm wondering if my original general confession was valid. Can you advise me? 3 Hail Mary's for the priest.
Of course your confession was valid. Jesus was there. That's who does the forgiving. The traditional definition of sacraments is that they are "ex opere operato Christi". "The Blood of Jesus forgives you." God is good.
Surely the priest is the person you ought to be referring your question too; not a bunch of strangers! But since you asked anyway, it's simple. Confession is about feeling the power of God's forgiveness in experiencing a great sense of 'release'. If you didn't have that, then you didn't make a valid confession. Easy! Go and visit a priest!
The truth is if you did not go to a priest ordained by June 1969 you Confession was not valid. Visit MHFM and find out the reasons why. Also without a validly ordained priest there is no absolution. The other answers were Protestant. There is perfect Contrition, but that is not about what you are asking.
Thanks for the vedio! I believe if you do stretches you are doing yoga, most stretches are derived from yoga poses (since it's been around for so long). What exactly are these poses that are so wrong to use???
You can hardly sit, stand, twist, bend, walk, or stretch in any direction without doing Yoga. Look at a comprehensive list of Yoga postures and then think of how you can position your body to avoid all of them. Hmmm..... Pilates, ballet, even football requires stretching exercises. Notice the pictures of people with hands in prayer position in the Yoga section of this video. Look familiar? That's how the sisters taught us to place our hands when I was in Catholic school in the 1950's.
@@mfcabrini, you are absolutely right... For ages I took yoga as an exercise that helped my health in many ways, now I enjoy the more relaxing Yin Yoga. Suddenly I started hearing this conflicting religious rules and is making me very confused. Priests I spoke to are either not convinced themselves or unable to provide convincing arguments. To me it sounds illogical, confusing the body movements with beliefs. I do the stretches because they help my body, I don't meditate or relate it to any religion, when I relax my mind I cancel all thoughts to help unwind. At the end of my practice I make the sign of the Cross and thank my Lord for the benefits. Now how could that be against Christianity??? Are they just trying to burden our conscious unnecessarily?? Would love to hear a logical explanation from the church...
@@suegz139 the priest said it's wrong to do these things because all yoga poses were taught by Hindu gods! you are opening doors to demons when you practice yoga. & NO, they are NOT "trying to burden your conscious unnecessarily"!!! instead they are trying to protect your soul from evil entities! if you had ears you would've listened to the great spiritual advice the priest gave!
@@audreysaberhagen875 , I do have ears, I listened and learned, otherwise I wouldn't be questioning. If you practice any sort of exercise you would know that they contain movements originally used by yoga. The stretches you do before walking or jogging goes back to yoga, as simple as that. That's what I'm asking, how do you cancel this out of your life???
@@suegz139 , Father said he had no intention of promoting controversy. He said, "I don't know, but..." and only then did he reference Hindu experts about not being able to remove the religious elements from the practice of yoga. Then he said, "That doesn't mean there is anything wrong with stretching..." So, what I get out of this is that those who closely follow Yoga, who "do yoga", using mantras (or whatever) and seeking out yoga instructors, studying re-incarnation etc. etc. (you know the type) are opening doors to the occult. But those who are just doing yoga exercises, not "doing yoga" per se, are okay. Like, what you are doing sounds fine. Hasn't the Catholic Church always baptized pagan cultures, keeping the good and only forbidding the bad?
@@nosmoke247 Well, first off chief: we live in a society, we’re supposed to act in a civilized manner ok. Secondly, Christ instituted the sacrament of confession in order to save us. Ok.
@@nickcardone8787 Christ said confess to the Father of Heaven! Not a man in a dark box! No where does God say man can forgive sin nor grant you passage into heaven! You DECEIVE yourself.💯🙏🏼🤔
Regarding the question of yoga, the reason Hinduism Today decries the commercialization and separation of hatha yoga from its traditional context is that it debases it and renders it spiritually ineffective. Intention is everything in Hinduism, nothing works ex opere operato. Even with the best intentions and initiation from a guru, a person may struggle with the practices for years and still have no results or effects. Of course many yoga studios mix in all sorts of Eastern and new age teachings into their curriculum and Catholics should avoid those, but the postures in and of themselves are merely physical. Catholics should be cautious, but I believe it to be entirely contextual as to its potential spiritual harm.
OPINION: 1) PARISHIONERS MUST REQUEST THE PARISH PRIEST TO BUILD A CONFESSION BOX, OR HOUSE; RATHER THAN OPENLY-SEEN OR FACE-TO-FACE CONFESSION . 2 )CONFESSION IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE HOLY MASS; AND THE HOLY COMMUNION; SO THE PRIEST MUST THINK OF THAT, AND THE SINNERS, TOO. 3) IMPORTANT TO EXPRESS REGRETS OR SORROWS ; AND SO DO PENANCE(S). ******* ******* *******
confession is a positive attitude . No one can argue against . But if it were direct to our Creator . In sins all human beings are equal and temptation of fall no one is in secure of . So to do it to whoever of blood and skin like you is a matter to ponder on . And there is no certitude and no comfort however hard you try to convince yourself as when you do it to the Only forgivable God .
I wish i could get our parish to understand the dangers of doing yoga. I would like to see them doing Soul Core which is a Catholic stretching and strengthening exercise that doesn't use the hindu poses or meditation.
That is an old style confessional -- a "box." The priest is in the middle. I've never seen one that is so open for the people making their confessions. If one can be heard by the person on the other side and then recognized when you go in and out, I'd be very uncomfortable making my confession there.
There is a slide hatch on each side, the priest opens one side and closes the other and hears a confession while the person on the other side who has just given his confession moves out and another person gets ready, then the priest opens the window and closes the other to hear the next confession
I just saw a repost of a photo of him on instagram, set up on a college campus with a laptop, writing a homily, next to a sign that says, "Got questions about God? Want to make Confession?"
We know that the Lord Jesus is the lamb of God who took away the sins of the world . Believers believe that they are now forgiven of all sins because they have called on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and salvation and eternal life. Now when believing mess up then they can boldly come to to the throne of grace to receive grace and mercy. Abba Father I’ve messed up again and thank you for the blood of Jesus which cleanses me from all unrighteousness. The New Covenant declares that God will never remember our sins anymore Hebrews 10 16-21 Believers believe that they are forgiven and only God can forgive sins.
What really baffles me about this is that we address the priest as 'Father', thereby denoting that it is God the FATHER who gives us His absolution, but when we come out of the Confessional, we speak as if it were Jesus-Christ who pardonned us... I guess this is because God, being transcendant, all three Persons are 'seen' by us 'ad extra' as ONE so we can speak of them 'interchangeably'. Protestants are especially prone to this kind of confusion: they NEVER say things like 'God the FATHER forgave us our sins and bestowed His love (Holy Spirit) upon us': they always say 'Christ died on the Cross for our sins' - it's pretty much as if God the Father DIDN'T even EXIST and had nothing to do with it! Not to mention that this phrase has become so common and overused that it's just irritating 'noise' at this point, devoid of any meaning... If we're going to use 'appropriations', we should do it right - or forget it altogether and simply speak of 'God' when speaking of God 'ad extra'... Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason the second Person took on human flesh and died on a Cross is not 'to forgive us our sins' - that's the Father's prerogative: rather He came to MERIT the Love of the Father for us, since we were radically incapable of doing so. Of course, that's an act of Mercy but I don't see it as 'forgiving our sins', in and of itself... Do I have a blind spot in my heart or something? So, by making a 'promise' to Christ that I will sin no more and by avoiding near occasions of sin, that should suffice? That will probably work for sins against the 6th Commandment but what if I have to put my life on the line? How is this different from having what Natives called a 'Blood-brother'? Is that what Christ is, a 'Blood-brother'? Are we to be made 'Good' simply by giving in to EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL and GUILT TRIPPING? Is that how it works? What about Grace??? How is this not semi-pelagian at best??? Human frailty is the PROBLEM - not the solution!!! Am I expected to thrust myself onto the battlefield, hoping that a sword and shield will be handed down to me from Heaven at the very last moment - isn't that how 'actual' Grace works (by the way, 'actual' Grace was nowhere to be found in the Magisterium until Suarez introduced it in the XVIIth century)? What kind of General would ever ask such an act of 'Faith' - and yet that's exactly what the Church asks of us? Who would even go into battle under such conditions?!? The fact of the matter is that most people simply abandon large swaths of the spiritual battlefield to the Enemy... Without Faith in EFFICACIOUS Grace, we CANNOT be saved (2nd Council of Orange, 531). What if an OMNIPOTENT and OMNISCIENT 'Person' dwelled within you whose sole purpose was TO DO GOOD? If your intentions were pure, wouldn't you simply 'move over' and give that Person the driver's seat??? That's what we're called to do as Christians, for such is the gift of Grace: the indwelling of the Holy Ghost... Satanists are possessed by Satan and Christians are possessed by God. Am I missing anything? Thanks in advance!
The Holy Spirit and the Holy Ghost refer to the same Divine person. In earlier English what we mean by spirit is what they meant by ghost. So in more traditionalist circles (i.e. this channel), many will say "Holy Ghost" instead of "Holy Spirit." So both are equally correct and it's just a matter of personal preference on which one you use.
Isn’t it not for the purpose of encountering God physically should that be granted by God not to encounter him to show the power you possess. But as a son who wishes to be with his father and mother.. if the response from other comments is a no. Then how the saints of old become saint. Is sainthood a state of mind. Padre Pío as is described that he was an angry saint I am sorry but God in Jesus Christ is Gentle and merciful his yoke is easy and burden is light. Roman Catholic saints are not European not of Sweden not of France but of heaven is there is their place of origin
Children are the future of the church. They must be present and not hidden away. Rejoice the new generation and the parents that take them to Mass. As a parent, it's hard. I'd rather leave mine at home, but that's not what God wants. Have tolerance and pray for these young Catholics.
Was the Gospel first preached in Latin is that what God is asking for. Satisfaction to whom to God . Where is the Love . Because I sense pride could enter because I see people come out from confession with nose up and appear to look down upon you like the the Pharisees . I am
We are not praying to a priest. We are coming to the church, confessing our sins. When we sin we hurt the body of Christ and that must be repaired. In John 20:22-23 Christ breathes on the apostles, giving them the Holy Spirit saying, whose sins you forgive are forgiven and whose sins you retain are retained. Would that have stopped when the apostles died!? No!
Question: "What does the Bible say about confession of sin to a priest?" Answer: The concept of confession of sin to a priest is nowhere taught in Scripture. First, the New Testament does not teach that there are to be priests in the New Covenant. Instead, the New Testament teaches that all believers are priests. First Peter 2:5-9 describes believers as a “holy priesthood” and a “royal priesthood.” Revelation 1:6 and 5:10 both describe believers as “a kingdom of priests.” In the Old Covenant, the faithful had to approach God through the priests. The priests were mediators between the people and God. The priests offered sacrifices to God on behalf of the people. That is no longer necessary. Because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we can now approach God’s throne with boldness (Hebrews 4:16). The temple veil tearing in two at Jesus’ death was symbolic of the dividing wall between God and humanity being destroyed. We can approach God directly, ourselves, without the use of a human mediator. Why? Because Jesus Christ is our great High Priest (Hebrews 4:14-15; 10:21) and the only mediator between us and God (1 Timothy 2:5). The New Testament teaches that there are to be elders (1 Timothy 3), deacons (1 Timothy 3), bishops (Titus 1:6-9), and pastors (Ephesians 4:11) - but not priests. When it comes to confession of sin, believers are told in 1 John 1:9 to confess their sins to God. God is faithful and just to forgive our sins as we confess them to Him. James 5:16 speaks of confessing our trespasses “to one another,” but this is not the same as confessing sins to a priest as the Roman Catholic Church teaches. Priests / church leaders are nowhere mentioned in the context of James 5:16. Further, James 5:16 does not link forgiveness of sins with the confession of sins “to one another.” The Roman Catholic Church bases their practice of confession to a priest primarily on Catholic tradition. Catholics do point to John 20:23, “If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” From this verse, Catholics claim that God gave the apostles the authority to forgive sins and that authority was passed on to the successors of the apostles, i.e., the bishops and priests of the Roman Catholic Church. There are several problems with this interpretation. (1) John 20:23 nowhere mentions confession of sin. (2) John 20:23 nowhere promises or even hints that apostolic authority of any kind would be passed on to the successors of the apostles. (3) The apostles never once in the New Testament acted as if they had the authority to forgive a person’s sin. Similarly, Catholics point to Matthew 16:19 and 18:18 (binding and loosing) as evidence for the Catholic Church’s authority to forgive sins. The same three above points apply equally to these Scriptures. The ability to forgive sins is God’s and His alone (Isaiah 43:25). The better understanding of John 20:23 is that the apostles were given the responsibility of declaring with utmost certainty the terms on which God would forgive sins. As the church was being founded, the apostles declared that those who believed the gospel were forgiven (Acts 16:31) and those who did not obey the gospel faced judgment (2 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Peter 4:17). As the apostles proclaimed salvation in Christ (Acts 10:43) and exercised church discipline (1 Corinthians 5:4-5), they were wielding the authority Christ had given them. Again, the concept of confession of sin to a priest is nowhere taught in Scripture. We are to confess our sins to God (1 John 1:9). As New Covenant believers, we do not need mediators between us and God. We can go to God directly because of Jesus’ sacrifice for us. First Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.”
Jesus founded a Church. 12 is the number of authority -- 12 tribes, 12 judges, 12 apostles. And He told Peter that he was the rock (Petros) on which He would build his Church. Furthermore, He gave him the keys to the kingdom and said explicitly, "whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." In Acts you can read about the laying on of hands by which the priestly functions have been passed down. Early Christians confessed their sins publicly (glad we don't do that anymore!). When the people gathered together, there was liturgy involved and a belief that the bread and wine became Jesus' body and blood. Notice that Paul talks about receiving the body of the Lord unworthily.
Hello, please humbly pray to God for His guidance . Also check out catholicanswers.com for clarifications regarding purgatory, why we Hail Mary, the papacy, why we confess to priests, the Eucharist, Apostle Peter and the Keys,..etc. You can also check out Steve Ray here on RU-vid. He clarifies some of the teachings in a way that is easy to understand.
Jero interesting points but 1) 1 John 1:9 doesn’t say to confess your sins to God. It simply says if we confess our sins then God will forgive us. *To whom* we are to confess the sins is not made explicit. 2) You stated that God is the only being who can forgive sins immediately after you referenced the fact that Jesus granted the apostles’ authority to forgive sins. So, evidently, you’re wrong on that point.
Or fell asleep, as the Eastern rites believe -- "dormition." She didn't need to die because she was free from original sin. The Church has never decided officially.
Hello, please pray to God for His guidance. Also check out catholicanswers.com for answers regarding Mary, the papacy, purgatory..etc. You can also check out Steve Ray here on RU-vid. He explains many of the teachings in a way that is easy to understand.
@@CelestineKirui are you deaf, catholic beast is against scripture! So you give me a catholic link to more lies? Devil got you blinded till your in hell with him. Purgatory was invented by Satan! Like confessions, Mary, statue worship, lent, etc. All against God!
This is sick beyond belief you're supposed to be confessing to a weirdo that has taken a vow never to be intimate with a woman and this clown thinks he's normal do you need to hear any more
You can't go in and listen to your kid's confession. What 10 year old is going to confess shoplifting a candy bar with mom or dad standing over his shoulder? No brainer! The old style confessionals have a barrier so the kid and the priest can't reach each other or usually even see each other. Newer churches have a single room and you can choose face to face or behind the grill, and there is a window in the door. If you are worried, you can watch but not hear. Naked priest? With 20-30 people of all ages making their confessions, many face to face on a Saturday afternoon, do you think no one would notice?
Carolyn Riddle No one noticed priests raping kids before Mass, in confessionals for years and all over the world! That or they didn't care/covered it up. It's better to be safe than sorry in these dangerous situations!!!
@@mikel7467 what about teachers molesting kids? Protestant leaders, non denominational leaders, Baptist leaders, political leaders are also molesting kids. Why are you not on their youtube videos condemning them?
Good confession?? Father, would you like to be Christ and the sinner asking for forgiveness, behind a wall?? 🙄🤣🤣 Father, you Catholics, have very strange ideas! 😁
@@76katster Not relative! Do you know what is the central meaning of Confession; You need internal power to knee before a stranger and telling him everything about you, leveling yourself to the ground!!! Humbleness, decency!! That's the Central idea: Crash your egoism. Lucifer can't suffer this one:Right; Now,.. you go to the priest to confess: But behind Priest, is hiding Him! The Mighty One. The example in Paradise show us exactly this: Lord wants you to stand before Him and ask Forgiveness. What is the meaning of your Catholics wall? You feel shame? When you made the sin,you didn't??😏 Since you made up your mind that you're guilty and you need His forgiveness, there's no wall can stop you. Otherwise you're not ready.Your egoism is bigger than your sin! When you you've been in Court before the Judge, is there any wall between? No! When you are before your father or mother and ask forgiveness, is there any wall between? No! How much more in front of THE KING OF THE KINGS; Pope and Catholic Church, has made a lot of weird unacceptable demands!!! An Orthodox Greek, greetings💖
@@petrosmpampalis6097 And for the record….God is everywhere at all times. He is in the confessional. The priest, who has received the Holy Ghost, just like the apostles are ministers of Christ’s forgiveness. We go to the priest who represents the church, the body of Christ , the same church we have hurt with our sins. We go and confess our sins as an act of humility. When you made a mistake as a child, did you apologize to your parents or siblings? Why would you have done that if you could just ask God for forgiveness in the privacy of your room? You did it to make amends. The sacrament is Christ instituted. I am sorry you do not have eyes to see.
@@76katster You're confused.. Priest is not His minister, as you say: 1) Priest is His servant! 2) Priest doesn't represent any Church: Priests and US is the Church: Together! In one body. I'm adking you again: When you you've been in Court before the Judge, is there any wall between? No! Have you any idea what happened in Paradise after the Sin; God is asking from Adam and Eve to come in front of Him: He protests: Why you've been hiding?? Bible is my martyr. And when Bible talks, we don't need any other human testimony😉
