Going to Confession for the First Time in a Long Time
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn more about the Pocket Guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation with Fr. Mike Schmitz and Fr. Josh Johnson.
Confession is a place of never-ending mercy and forgiveness and is one of the most beautiful parts of our Catholic faith. But for many, it can also be a very daunting experience, especially if it’s been a long time since your last confession. Whether it’s the first time you’ve gone in a year, or it’s the first time you’ve gone in your life, God is ready and willing to forgive your sins. All we have to do is let him into our hearts.
Today, Fr. Mike explains how to approach going to confession for the first time in a long time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey there! |
| 0:01.6 | Oh, sorry, the Kent microphone was in my pocket and I hit it with my hand and then I thought |
| 0:06.8 | I'm knocking off my off of my leg but it's not in my pocket so how could I knock it off my pocket? |
| 0:19.2 | How many of you have spoken to Mike Schmitz and this is a centrum presence? |
| 0:21.5 | So recently I was talking with someone who has not been to confession in a really, really long time. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm they had seen some of some of our other videos about confession in a place of victories, some of the |
| 0:30.0 | other kind of ways in which you can like prepare for confession so they wanted to go right? |
| 0:33.6 | They wanted to go but they'd been so long for them they had some questions and I thought well |
| 0:37.4 | let me I can try to give you some answers. Sometimes when I have students who are coming into the |
| 0:41.5 | church and they're going to go to their first confession in their entire lives they look back |
| 0:45.3 | and they say okay so everything here I am I'm 24 years old or however old that means it's been 24 |
| 0:51.1 | years since I've ever been to confession since this is my first confession if it's been that long |
| 0:54.9 | for you you might have the same question as they do which is how in the world am I supposed to |
| 0:58.7 | remember all of my sins of the course of my life and I would say okay a number one what we believe |
| 1:04.1 | and as we believe that the Holy Spirit is the one who can vixess of our sins and so when we give the |
| 1:08.8 | Lord time and space and we actually encounter his commandments that he can vixess with his Holy |
| 1:14.7 | Spirit and he reveals to us what we need to confess and so here's what I invite people to do I |
| 1:19.5 | invite them to take like a notepad or notebook or even on their phone on a computer whatever |
| 1:24.8 | interpray for a couple days and and basically in that time of prayer just be able to go through |
| 1:30.1 | the commandments and be able to ask that question in an examination of conscience okay where in this |
| 1:36.4 | stage of my life in this stage of my life or in this stage of my life might I have sinned against |
| 1:40.4 | this commandment so in we have this book it's called the pocket guides reconciliation oh sorry |
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