I came about this video at the perfect time! I’m getting ready for tomorrow’s confession. I believe this is God’s plan! Praise the Lord! My understanding of confession is clearer now! Thank our father Francis!
听完之后 好安慰。50年仍然犯同一样罪 no matter how many times 告解and numerous repentance prayers. Your explanations showing 告解is useless I didn't hear a concrete biblical perspectives.
程神父,我聽完了你對告解聖事之後,我有一個很重要的疑問。告解是七件聖事之一。因為是聖事,所以具有Divine Power. Grace is an enabling power.所以天主教設立告解聖事去幫助我們教友透過告明,改變我們沒有能力懺悔後仍然繼績犯的罪。如果照你的解釋,每次犯那罪都跑到天主面前,求他幫助我們决志定改,這是絶對謙卑地求天主的力量。問題是這和基督教個人懺悔有甚麽分別?程神攵,你能否給我一個深入的 演繹?願天主時常寵祐您。
Confession goes back to taking dominion over our own will, but only with the Absolute assistance of Jesus Christ through the Grace of His Bride, the Catholic Church. We name our Sins the way Adam and Eve named the creatures of the world. Naming a creature is to take dominion of it. (Thus, we don't honestly know the name of God but infer Titles honoring His Authority.) Sin is named after the demon who spawned the influence which offends God. Through the Grace of God, and the Name of Jesus Christ and His Eternal Sacrifice, our freedom from the Sin is restored. We need the Sacrament of Reconciliation often because of the inherited imperfection from our first parents. We are seives, or cracked vessels that leak Grace even after we've been Forgiven and in Communion. It's a lifetime worth of struggle, but it's all worth it. Perfectionism, rigorism, presumption, and despair must all be avoided as all of that is Vanity (Pride)--which is also a Sin. I learn from the Jewish traditions to understand what Jesus gives us. It's because Jesus came to us through the Jewish Covenant. The Catholic methodology of taking down Satan's kingdom on earth is from the Roman army/empire. If you study their histories, this becomes easier to understand. But, do you know what the Chinese Culture teaches Christianity???? FILIAL PIETY!!! That’s a Latin Word of a Confucius concept for honoring the family! It took a brave Jesuit missionary to visit China a learn that. As Christians, we're not just responsible for our own Salvation. We're also called to assist other souls who need to meet and even Reconcile with God. Much of the first duty, if not first opportunity, to do this is to assist family first. European/Middle East Christians knew of filial piety before encountering the ancient Chinese courts, but none had experienced such a profound example as the Chinese Culture. The Church originally thought that Chinese were diefying (making gods of) their ancestors. Thus, the original misconception was that the high honoring of ancestors was pagan and offensive--but, this was not so. Staying in a State of Grace is a means to offer our Charity and Worship in Sacrifice for others' Sins. That’s why regular Confession is also helpful.