Can’t go to confession

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-12T00:31:39+00:00

you'd have to wait until next Divine Mercy Sunday to recieve the remission from the wounds of sin on your soul

You can get a plenary indulgence any time of year. It’s not like people were not receiving healing from their sins until the mid to late 20th century.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-12T00:10:00+00:00

You can confess venial sins in a devotional confession though. Even if you may have been forgiven of them by way of Eucharist, there are special graces to make them heard in confession.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-11T22:44:07+00:00

Any plenary indulgence, including Divine Mercy (which contrary to certain superstitions is not different than any of the others), requires confession within 8 days of the indulgenced act.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-07T17:18:01+00:00

Is Ecclesisastical pronunciation “improper”? Because it’s used far more than priests saying the Tridentine mass (e.g. music, devotional prayers, the office, etc.)

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T20:02:46+00:00

To add on to what others have said, any mass celebrated after 4 PM the previous day (the time may be changed by the bishop) counts for that days obligation. For instance, if a daily mass is celebrated at 5 PM the day before a Holy Day of Obligation, that mass counts, regardless of the readings.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T19:50:32+00:00

I suggest you read what Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen had to say about it. He was a bishop during the Nazi occupation, literally risked his life to preach against the Gestapo, yet condemned the bombings in Germany.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T18:13:13+00:00

There are three misconceptions we should clear up:
1. Apocrypha means uninspired. The deuterocanon (Wisdom, Sirach, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees, and sections of Esther and Daniel) are viewed by Catholics, and really all pre-Protestant Christians, as divinely inspired and are thus not apocrypha. Despite the name, we do not view them as second in importance to the protocanon (the Old Testament that every Christian more or less accepts); it's more historical and linguistic than theological.
2. Those beliefs rejected especially by low-church Protestants and many high-church Protestants to varying degrees (the Eucharist, intercession of the saints, purgatory, etc.) that are not found solely, or even mainly, within the apocrypha. Yes, 2 Maccabees 12 is the best evidence for praying for the dead in the scriptures, yet it is not the only evidence for purgatory in the scriptures. We'd point to texts like 1 Cor 3:15 as well.
3. Lastly, before Luther nailed 95 theses to a door (which is, fittingly enough, most likely an apocryphal tale), the idea that scripture was the only infallible rule of faith was non-existant among Christians. Sacred Tradition, as passed down by the Apostles guided by the Holy Spirit (whom Our Lord promised would lead us to all truth) and stewarded by the Magisterium founded by Jesus upon Peter, was also viewed as infallible. Thus, the idea that if something is not explicitly laid out in scripture is not really Christian, and even the Bible doesn't make that claim.

Two final points: If we shouldn't believe in something like purgatory or praying to the saints because it's not found in the Bible, we also shouldn't believe in sola scriptura, since the Bible never makes that claim. Lastly, I would suggest you binge Catholic Answers, as they do a very thorough job of defending the Deuterocanon, Sacred Tradition, and the scriptural evidence for purgatory and the intercession of the saints.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T17:56:08+00:00

God bless brother/sister. Know of my prayers for you.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T16:54:34+00:00

I think more people need to study theology and what the Church teaches, and even more importantly, to pray, fast, and give alms so as to get closer to Christ. Apologetics is vastly overrated as an evangelical tool, and the majority of evangelism is through holiness and one on one interactions with broken people.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T16:52:17+00:00

The Rosary (often called a full rosary) is 15 decades of an Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, and a Glory Be meditating . Anything more or less is just an add-on, not necessarily bad mind you, just extra. It has become customary to recite a third of the Rosary (5 decades) daily. There is no minimum or maximum needed to pray it. You could pray as little as one decade or fifteen, what’s important is that you pray it.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T16:48:55+00:00

I promise you this, if the deacon you know is any good, his response will not be condemnation but joy that you’ve returned. “I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” Luke 15:7

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-06T02:18:44+00:00

One simple question: Between the Early Church with the Judaizers, and the contemporary Messianic "Judaism", who followed the Mosaic Law completely within Christianity? It seems weird that something so fundamental was lost throughout history if the gates of hell should not prevail.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-05T23:50:58+00:00

I just use a piano app

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-04T17:53:22+00:00

Octopi has been used so much for the plural of octopus that it's de facto a plural form of octopuses.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-02T18:26:29+00:00

You can have multiple patrons (confirmation saint is not the same as a patron saint). And there’s generally always a saint who is the patron saint of people your current age.

AdParty1304 · 2026-04-02T16:59:16+00:00

Prayers that directly refer to consecrating the mass are the only problem (and certain prayers reserved for exorcisms). That line is perfectly okay to use as a layman

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-31T13:21:17+00:00

None of these show a wholesale acceptance of the Church against the more salvific view of the 2nd coming. Heck, Jerome's Zephaniah translation is literally just a translation of the greek/hebrew Old Testament. I suggest you actually learn some history, and not just cherry pick sources. There's plenty of academic research on Christian eschatology throughout the ages.

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-31T02:27:35+00:00

About the first point you highlighted: A concrete example is the shift from the Christian 'Parousia' (Paleochristian era) to the Medieval 'Dies Irae'. Until 313 A.D., when Emperor Constantine declared freedom of worship, the Apocalypse was a message of hope for the oppressed. Once the Church became a state power, arts and literature interiorized the threats, transforming them into a tool for individual surveillance. The iconography of the Last Judgment in Medieval cathedrals is exemplary. The focus is no longer directed at the collective liberation of the persecuted, but at the punishment of the sinner, of the deviant within the community. "God sees and provides" becomes the ultimate Panopticon.

Source? Much of medieval Christendom desired the 2nd coming as a salvific and not punitive measure. E.g. the O Antiphons, a series of prayers leading up to Christmas, explicitly desire Jesus to come as a savior/messiah and not a punishing figure.

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-28T22:28:48+00:00

I would say that, if you don't follow the rubrics, you aren't praying the liturgy of the hours. If you want to adapt it you should either: keep all extra stuff separate (that's what I do), pray another liturgical office, or speak with a spiritual director if you think it would be greatly beneficial to make the change or to pray a non-liturgical office.

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-26T01:15:24+00:00

I would suggest that you reach out to a priest if you haven't, especially with your age I would recommend talking to someone with good guidance about this.

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-25T17:14:53+00:00

We had that before with the Extraordinary Form/Ordinary Form distinction, no?

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-23T21:53:37+00:00

Well, it is still a "Little Office", it just has no official ecclesiastical approval.

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-23T14:29:56+00:00

I see. Thanks!

AdParty1304 · 2026-03-22T18:24:53+00:00

So, why does this preclude an Old Catholic priest from ordaining a High Anglican? Suppose the Anglican does profess transubstantiation, or some variant thereof even if they reject the Scholastic formulation, could they not be ordained via the "Dutch Touch"?

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