Posted on 09/16/2016 8:56:16 PM PDT by ebb tide
Voile, this what they are taught!
I love that Scripture. Thank you for posting it.
Nope. You’re only forgiving yourself. Christ is not forgiving or absolving you of your sins."
Scuse me... Who says Catholicism says that? I've never heard "Catholicism" say such a thing. But obviously I'm missing some context.
I had always thought you to be a weak Catholic. Now you have confirmed it.
Jesus could forgive anybody of any sins in any manner and He did so. However, He instituted the Sacrament of Confession only after His Resurrection for his apostles to carry on.
First, the Lady is not a ‘weak Catholic’ ... if she were such I might have gotten through to her by now. Second, it was you who made the strange comment quoted by ealgeone to which she is objecting as said by ‘Catholics’. Sad that you are on such a page as that one.
My FSSP said that in today's sermon.
And it was in regards to today's Gospel, in the Traditional Calendar.
Any “catholic” who sides with protestants in their attacks on the Catholic Church, in general, and their specific attacks Sacrament of Confession is in my opinion a weak Catholic.
Perhaps you are confused?
I’m not confused; I am a Catholic who is confident in the One, True Faith.
I have been tempted by a temptress...I asked Jesus to help me...I made i through. It’s tough though!
IIRC, not even the Catholic Priests who post at FR would make such assertion that sins my ONLY be forgiven via the Catholic sacrament of the confession.
I’m confused.
"Jesus could forgive anybody of any sins in any manner and He did so. However, He instituted the Sacrament of Confession only after His Resurrection for his apostles to carry on."
Yes. I agree!
Jesus could still forgive anybody of any sins, and can still do so. He established the Sacrament of Confession to extend, and to distribute --- not to delimit --- the grace of His universal power to forgive.
It is an axiom of Catholic philosophy that we are bound by the Sacraments, but God is not bound by them. In other words, if we are aware that it is God's will for us to go to Confession for the forgiveness of our (mortal) sins, then we must do so because it is always wrong to refuse what we know God wants for us.
But if we didn't know, or couldn't go, God has other ways to forgive. He has not put Himself in an itty bitty locked box as if He were a prisoner of His own Sacraments.
Second, sins are also wiped away in Baptism and in the Anointing of the Sick. This is basic Sacramental theology. I have received the Anointing repeatedly, before major surgeries, and each time my sins were totally absolved.
Many saints who were privileged to receive visions of our Savior, were told they were forgiven their sins right the spot. Jesus told St. Faustina Kowalska that when He said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” (Mt. 5: 7)He was showing us the many paths of mercy.
Mind you, all these saints greatly valued Sacramental Confession and urged all sinners to avail themsleves of this wonderful gift. However, in extraordinary circumstances, Jesus can forgive in other ways as well.
He is a genius, all-knowing all-powerful, limitless. He is God!
Do you read the Catechism, my friend?
ebb tide: Nope. You’re only forgiving yourself. Christ is not forgiving or absolving you of your sins.<
Christianity says otherwise.
No you are apparently confused. Most people outside the One, True Faith are confused; otherwise they wouldn’t be outside It.
Nuff said?
We never had an agreement.
I did some contract work in Turkey in the late 1990s. There were three of us guys, and, wouldn’t you know, three beautiful Black Sea girls showed up courtesy of our driver! One was picked especially for me! Didn’t work, but she got my replacement on the next trip ;-)
Can you give me a link or contact information for your FSSP?
Kinda hard to keep track. I need a scorecard on where everyone is on the issues! :)
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