This is RCT number 74, making a good confession. RCT stands for the Roman Catechism of Trent.

Today we are on pages 304 to 310. God grant you his peace. In nominipatri Cifidi,

et spiti to santi, amen. O heavenly king, comforter, spirit of truth, who art everywhere present, and fillest all things,

treasury of good things, and giver of life. Come and dwell in us and cleanse us of all impurity

and save our souls, O good one. In nomi Patri Sifidi, it spriti, Amen. And the catechism of Trent reads, the law of confession.

Nor let it be supposed that although confession was instituted by our Lord, he did not declare

its use to be necessary.

The faithful must be impressed with the conviction that he who is dead in sin is to be

recalled to spiritual life by means of sacramental

confession. Okay, me for the first time today. That translation there was a little bit squirrely.

Basically, here's what is trying to tell you. It's saying that it is an error. It's an error to

believe that confession is unnecessary. The real fact is this. The only

people to whom confession is unnecessary for salvation are the babies who die shortly after baptism.

In that case, of course, baptism covers them for their salvation. But even Catholic adults who have

never committed immortal sin, you're still required to

make at least a yearly confession of your venial sins. Now, my experience is those few Catholics

living that close to God actually tend to go to confession every week or two. There's nothing

wrong with confessing venial sins. Of course, you're only required

to confess your mortal sins, but there's a lot of grace in confessing venial sins given to

the confessional to avoid those sins in the future. And of course, there's some very unusual

exceptions to everything I just gave, like, of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary would attend the masses of St. John the Beloved, but of course, she never confessed

to him because there was nothing to confess.

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