3 Reasons You Still Feel Bad After Confession

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We know this: when we go to the sacrament of reconciliation with a truly contrite heart and receive absolution, we are forgiven of our sins by the blood of Jesus Christ. So, if you've ever left the confessional still feeling bad, you might wonder... "What gives?"

Today, Fr. Mike identifies 3 reasons why we might be experiencing a lingering feeling of guilt after confession, and he gives us a bit of advice to deal with those feelings.

"I'm forgiven, but I still have to deal with the consequences."
"Someone else knows what I did."
"I've broken God's heart."

Finally, Fr. Mike reveals the source of these lingering regrets. The solution is deceptively simple.

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0:00.0	I've gone to confession and I still feel badly.
0:03.6	Like I've gone to confession and I still, it still eats me up inside.
0:07.1	What do I do?
0:07.9	Well, the first thing I would say is, well, how my name is Father Mike Schmitz
0:10.6	and this is a sense of resistance.
0:11.8	One of the things that happens, and then not infrequently, right?
0:15.0	It can happen pretty often, is that someone goes to confession
0:17.7	and they trust in the mercy of Jesus, right?
0:19.8	They trust in God.
0:20.9	They know, and this is the important thing, they know the two miracles that are real, right?
0:24.9	The first miracle is the conviction of sin.
0:27.3	We've talked about the two-four.
0:28.4	That, that, without the Holy Spirit,
0:30.6	convicting us of sin, we don't even know ourselves
0:33.6	and we don't know the reality of what's going on.
0:35.2	So that conviction of the Holy Spirit is a miracle.
0:38.5	But the second conviction of God's mercy is also a miracle.
0:41.2	To be able to know, okay, I'm guilty and the Lord loves me.
0:44.7	And His mercy He wants to forgive me, massive gift,
0:47.0	to also know the next gift, which is that Jesus Christ has given the ministry of reconciliation
0:53.5	to His church through the ministry of the priests.
0:56.1	At the end of John's Gospel, what happens?
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