If you went to confession late on Saturday and stayed out of trouble for about 12 hours, you were good for taking communion. But the catch was that you had to not sin after that because if you did, you'd go to hell if you died.
Now, I'm sure this is going to bring out the *That's not what the Catholic church teaches* crowd, but while they may find sone technicality in official RCC doctrine which supports their positions, it still is, in reality, just what the Catholic church does indeed teach, official doctrine notwithstanding.
Catholics are in bondage to the rules and regs that the Catholic church inflicts on them. There is no freedom in Christ for a Catholic. They consider it chutzpah to believe that one can be sure of making it to heaven in spite of what Scripture teaches, which is.....
1 John 5:12-14 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Do you sin every week?
Amen.
And thus we know why Rome disparages the Scriptures so vociferously. The word of God denies their practices and beliefs.
Catholics are in bondage to the rules and regs that the Catholic church inflicts on them.
To me, the sacraments are gifts of great value.
I’ve often thought of kids who have to be acccountable to their parents..and the Priest via confessions, and the Nuns, who I hear many stories of some pretty nasty mean ones along the way for many kids. When you add school teachers etc. Golly it must have been rough for catholic kids. God must have looked pretty unapproachable I would imagine.