My dad sent me this e-mail with the act of contrition that dove into the deeper meanings and taught about the perfect act of contrition . I came to this part:
Universal
"The act of contrition must include all of the mortal sins. One may never keep even one pet sin. Thus, if a person living in adultery is very sorry for his sins of eating meat on Fridays, but will not give up his sinful life of adultery, he cannot get rid of even one sin. One either leaves all of his sins behind, or he keeps all of them for God's just judgment at the moment of death. Unlike teeth, which when left alone, will pass away, sins, however, when left alone will never pass away."
I always thought that my sins were forgiven. I never mentioned the ones that I knew I would do again, because I thought it was wrong to ask for forgiveness if you were just going to do the act again.
From what I've heard, my Church won't consider me an adulteress because I was never married in the church in the first place but was divorced twice, I don't know how you consider it, maybe I am. One thing is for sure though, I am living in sin, therefore my sins are retained according to that. All of them, It hurts in my gut, I feel all twisted up inside and I've been more than depressed, I've been distraught.
It's all my fault, I lived the life, but I honestly thought those other sins were forgiven, but I was wrong.
2007-12-10
07:48:30
·
19 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous