Confessing the Same Sins Over and Over Again
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike discusses why confessing the same sins over and over isn’t entirely a bad thing. He also offers some ways we can make our confessions more effective in helping us avoid those same sins in the future. The practice of naming, confessing, and renouncing our sins in Jesus’ name before, during, or after confession is one suggestion Fr. Mike shares. He also encourages us to move past simply wanting forgiveness and into having true repentance so we can experience deep conversion and freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmidt and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:11.2 | So one of the things I'll talk people will say to me is that they'll complain that they |
| 0:15.8 | go to confession for the same thing over and over again. |
| 0:18.5 | And if you're anything like that, you are in good, good company because it's not a bad |
| 0:25.1 | thing. |
| 0:26.1 | It will be clearly clarified. |
| 0:27.3 | There's two reasons why go into confession for the same thing over and over again. |
| 0:31.8 | Our simultaneously, not a bad thing and at the same time, which means simultaneously, |
| 0:36.6 | it means at the same time, is something to take a look at. |
| 0:39.9 | Now first, people say, wow, the priest must be really annoyed with me because he hears |
| 0:45.1 | me saying the same thing every time I go to confession. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, he's probably not annoyed with you. |
| 0:52.8 | Me, whenever someone says, I just have the same sins over and over again, I think that's |
| 0:57.4 | really, really good news. |
| 0:58.6 | Why? |
| 0:59.6 | You should take encouragement with that. |
| 1:00.6 | Why? |
| 1:01.6 | Because imagine you were an athlete and so you're a baseball player. |
| 1:05.3 | Every time you got up there, you dropped your elbow. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm just going to go off the assumption that dropping your elbows is bad and baseball. |
| 1:10.9 | I don't know if it is, but just I remember them telling me, hey, keep your elbow up so |
| 1:14.5 | I don't know if that. |
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