From Multiclassing Cleric @lukei4655 on Twitter:
“Folk, stop using passive language in the Confessional. You didn’t ‘fall into’ a sin. You chose it. ‘Struggling with’ something is not the same as choosing it. Only what you choose is a sin. Own the wrong and then cast it at the foot of the Cross.”
When people tell me they’re afraid of dying without absolution, my next question is, “Why weren’t you afraid of dying between the time you committed the sin, which is the reason why we need absolution in the first place, and getting absolution in sacramental confession?”
When we have begun to believe the lie that sin is only “something that happens to us” we can begin to also believe the lie that absolution is something that can happen to us without renouncing the sin we’ve confessed by a firm purpose of amendment borne out through steadfastly avoiding the near occasions of that sin in future.
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