I go to Confession every Saturday...the more often I go, the more spiritually aware I become. Catholics should focus on this sacrament more than the needless controversy of communion in the hand or mouth.

I believe the Lord truly uses you and speaks through you Fr. Casey. Your words are wise beyond your years. Thank you Father. God bless you.

@The10bren10

4 жыл бұрын

@Bert Clayton 😂😂👌

@The10bren10

4 жыл бұрын

@Bert Clayton HEhehhehe. Pasty!

As an Orthodox Christian, this spoke to me. Thank you Father.

@giovannimartini6405

4 жыл бұрын

Many Orthodox brethen in this channel! God bless you!

@Ann12098

3 жыл бұрын

Do orthodox Christians have confession too?

@michaelgallimore7360

3 жыл бұрын

Ann yes we do.

@Ann12098

3 жыл бұрын

Michael Gallimore oh I never knew, thanks!

I love that. Cuz yeah, I always feel like I miss stuff when I go to confession

@auntyfluffy

5 ай бұрын

this comment might get likes for the next 10 years lol, Hope everyone is having an amazing Advent!

I'm going to confession tomorrow so this video definitely helped me a lot in preparing for it.

Thank you for giving me faith in the christian faith again. I was not raised catholic but i plan to attend my local mass this weekend.. all i seek is Absolution. I do not care what that may entail.

Reconciliation is a awesome sacrament , source of immense grace that we can visit regularly ,I always feel a sense of renewal and strength for the journey,until and when i am called home to God,I always try to convey to others and young people the awesome nature of a loving, merciful God that made us for Himself in His image of love for eternity...

Thank you father Casey.God Bless You!!!

Yes, Yes, Yes, Keep it up the great work and job you do.

God knows my sins. But it is hard to state them out loud. Hence the need for confession. Is hard but necessary. Thank you for what you do. Oh and this new book. WOW.

@MLuisa

4 жыл бұрын

It's the best in the Christian life.

@michaelfarah7735

4 жыл бұрын

Although its amazing to go to confession and you should go if you can, you can go to God directly. Theres a vid on this channel about it God bless

Thank You Father !!!! God Bless what You do for us !!!

Thank you! I always struggled with using the 10 commandments for my examen. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Thank you Father!!! Thanking God for a wonderful priest like you!!!

I hope you'll also make a talk about our Mother Mary. Thank you Father.

I´m a 50 year old man and I recently discovered your beuatiful contribution to the sprad of the Good Word in a way that is fresh, yet accurate and available to some diversity. As a man who used to be confessed 2 or 3 times a year and been missing Confession for 3 full years, how I yearn for a conversation with a man like you, Father, who I think the Holly Spirit inspired to talk about faith in a world where faith is considered obsolet and reason for mockery. Yes, I have some theological difficulties I cannot, til this day, have the light of the Lord to be taught and educated well. I disagree with some points regarding pristhood and women, with celibacy and even with more profound theological teachings...but never with the Truth that Jesus is our Lord and our salvation, that the Holly Trinity is a fact I clearly accept without needing to understand it scientificaly because God laid His eyes over me, not for my deeds, no, but opened my eyes at least for these Truthes that feed my soul. Father, how I need spiritual guidance to overcome so many doubts, how can I help my 17 year old daughter who lives with her mother, who is an atheist, but who still agees to go to mass each Sunday with me. nevertheless, she does not feel any will to confess, surely by my miserable example, but even younger, still in the Scouts, she never felt that urge for purification and acknowlodging herself as the only person within her school mates who accepts being a Catholic....does not help ether. I´m trully sorry for this long text and I even apologise to whever loses his/her time by reading this personal confession but.....how wonderful and brave first Christians were by confessing themselves in a reunion of all the members of the group with whom they lived.... How heroic and pure that was and how I feel so far away from those models of virtue.

Thank you for the insights and thought provoking guide. Been trying to go to Confession on a more regular basis lately. This video has been very helpful.

Thanks Father Casey.

Amazing Father !! You’ve just voiced exactly wat ive felt. I’ve also thot that the examination of our conscience can’t be limited to the Ten Commandments only, but to everything Jesus has sed in the Bible. In fact going against anything Jesus has sed is a breach of Law, even something ‘as small as’ wasting food (in the sense that that line would hardly be noticed as a ‘breach of Law’) when we know our poorer brothers n sisters in so many parts of the world r struggling for the same. I don’t mean it’s wasted intentionally. Jesus says ‘let nothing be wasted’ and the food was even gathered into baskets! Shows how much Our Lord valued that. So we should in the same way. If one can’t ‘physically’ visit the sick, I feel one can call up and enquire and/or pray for them. Basically do all the good that we can possibly do, which is in our scope or limitation.

You always bring the right videos at the right time. Thank God for clergymen & religious like you!

Thank you Fr. Casey

Thank you father for this

Thank you for this!

A week after Lent started - and my confession - I've already fallen. I feel like packing it in altogether.

@debbiekowalcyk2777

4 жыл бұрын

faith isn't about making it. It's about hanging in there. It's about Gods 🤔unending love and mercy

@katiesosnowski1730

3 жыл бұрын

It is one thing to be perfect. It is another to be imperfect, to fail, and to learn what it is to be loved in your failure, to be picked back up in your failure, to learn that your failure doesn't disqualify you.

@katiesosnowski1730

3 жыл бұрын

Saint John Paul 2 went to confession once a week

This is awesome. As usual, examined with clarity and eloquence. I am privileged to teach a parish based RCIA group and have recently cover the sacrament of reconciliation and by implication, the examination of conscience. Like you, I have found the commandment based tools just adequate but not exhaustive so I’ll certainly be checking out the resources you recommend. Thank you for your vocation and God bless 🙏🏾

I enjoy listening to your videos you a fantastic vocabulary!

During the years I've tried many tools and readings to examine my Consciousness, including meditations on the Scriptures. As I do love Ignatius spirituality, I think the most efficient and powerful one is St.Ignatius' Daily Examen of consciousness. Giving thanks to God for its daily gifts and admitting my own failures helps me to see which opportunities and calls I've missed during my day, but also what God gave me generously and I wasn't able to notice. Tools base on ten Commandments aren't so helpful to me because it seems like making a list and putting a flag on the sins that I've committed. Once a priest told me that I sin when "I miss the mark". In other words, as my Confessor suggested me, the three questions before going to bed: what did I do well during my day? What could I have done better? What didn't I do well? I like the fact that, as Pope Francis said, two spouses should go to bed only after reconciliation ...the same happens with God.

Very wise words, especially the need to focus on Catholic Social Teaching and the Beatitudes.

Father Casey, I appreciate and feel very enlightened by your videos. As you speak of examining our conscience, why don't you please compile for us a booklet or something we can print out that will help us to make an excellent confession? You are so knowledgeable and a faithful, loving servant of the Lord that I am positive that you could compose what we should be asking ourselves before Reconciliation. Thank you for always assisting us in becoming better people.

God bless you more and more

Awesome video father Casey

Indeed! Many books on the sacrament of reconciliation prescribe generic methodologies of preparation for confession. It is not a one-size-fits-all thing.

Thank you - very helpful

Confession is good for the soul this definitely gives you something to think about before making a good confession.

My most fruitful Confessions have been looking at the Seven Deadly Sins (and the corresponding virtues)--that is, at broad enough categories/those attitudes that lead to other sins to organize the thoughts. And, then challenging myself to find at least one in each category. Granted, for certain ones that is harder than others (Greed--it is still there, but sins involving money are harder when you are poor--more of the, this actually falls under envy, or those couple opportunities to give where you don't--rather than, I am going to rule my business world and not pay people enough, Bwahahaha), but it is flexible enough to cover more than the 10 Commandments.

Than you fr.Your wise beyond your years.Thnc for becoming a priest

Because of my very list and task-oriented brain, I find these examination of conscience tools extremely helpful for going to confession. Usually I like to make notes on these papers and bring them into the confessional with me. But I think you rightly point out the flaws with many of them. Maybe a more comprehensive tool is in order? (like you had mentioned, a combination of the ones found on the USCCB website might be a good start)

Thank you for the video. This helped me really break down the sacrament of reconciliation and visualize what I can do to understand Jesus's plan for me. Amen.

10/10 !!

Fr. Casey I wish I could have you as a confessor. I believe my confession would impact both my life as a sinner and yours as a confessor. But alas we are to many miles apart.

This is an interesting approach to look in at from the outside. As regards whether giving to the poor violates the ten commandments, it may interest you that Jewish scholars would consider failure to make tzedekah (lit. righteousness, in practical terms includes giving) is theft (and therefore against the ten commandments, not to mention several of the 615), since tzedekah is an obligation, not an option. - a lurking Jew

@mirnacudiczgela1963

Жыл бұрын

I would think that maybe neglecting to feed someone could result in their death and thus violation of the 5th comandment.

Check out the Church's teaching on the 10 Commandments in the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" 1994 (the white little one or big green one promoted by JPII). More formation & meditation on the 10 would cover your points.

Wonderful informative lesson. Thank you. Might I suggest a less noisy, erratic background "music". It is very distracting. Thanks again. God bless you.

"confessions of living saints" :D oh yes. it's me sometimes, mea culpa :))

Lord, forgive us for the bad things we have done and the good things we have not done.

When examining your conscience, use the 10 Commandments, Precepts of the Church, Works of Mercy, Beatitudes, and the 7 Deadly Sins (PALEGAS - Pride, anger, lust, envy, gluttony, avarice, sloth) with their daughters according to St. Aquinas.

Hey Father Casey, What is your opinion on the Idente Missionaries?

I struggled with habitual sin that made me ashamed of myself going to confession.

@OrthoLou

4 жыл бұрын

You're not alone. The priests won't judge you, and the best ones will even help you find a way to break your habits.

@giovannimartini6405

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. In fact, it's normal. Imagine having all moral defects, one after others! The usual thing is failing always in the same few sins. Many of us confess this way, so don't let that stop you. God loves you!

What do I do if I forgot to mention some sins to the priest in the confessin (my confession is still valid? or should I go and confess the ones that I forgot to say?)

Fr Casey, with even Seattle releasing "Communion in hand only directive", I think you need to address that (especially for those who insist on receiving on tongue). Also whether we can NOT receive this easter.

@giovannimartini6405

4 жыл бұрын

Charity is before any other spiritual consideration. If someone prefer receiving the Lord your way rather than protecting vulnerable people, he's like the priest in the Good Samaritan parable, who prefered ritual purity rather than helping a poor man.

@rvdb7363

4 жыл бұрын

I think this is a temporary measure to prevent the spread of the new Corona virus. In my country the bishops also put out a directive that we can only receive communion in the hand. We also don't shake hands and the holy water fonts are empty. We do this to protect the elderly and the people with weak health in our parishes.

Here in Auckland New Zealand, reconciliation at most parishes inside a confessional is once a week for only an hour or so. So, you have to be on the ball and well-planned to have your time at confession. They do offer reconciliation "by appointment", but I would feel like I was "bothering" the priest and would rather be in the Church and enter an actual confessional. Is it this way in the US? How regularly is the sacrament offered in this way?

We definitely can't interpret the 10 commandments as only 10 closed yes/no questions in Old Testament. To make a proper examination we need to ponder it in the light of the New Testament, along with the capital sins and the and absence of the Virtues of the Holy Spirit, based on current style of life. Pope Francisco himself has recommended a very beautiful questionnaire for a thoroughness examination. There are good material in Catholic websites if look for it. Read and reflect on the life of Saints in which God has mystically acted, such as St. Maria Vianey and St. Pío de Pietrelcina it's helpful too. Pray for our priest is important. Jesus told Saint Faustina Kowalska his sadness for Prists who in the Eucharist and Sacraments does not truly believe or are in mortal sin.

what do you think of the tridentine mass?

A greater emphasis on repentance/ conversion/ contrition might help. The publican's Gospel prayer says much....how do I disturb my relationship with God..

💯👏🙏👍

4:51 yeasss right

The examination of Conscience isnt just about offering a weekly confession. Matthew6-5 states the following " And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.…" Why do we need to wait to confess our sins? Only God can forgive us of our sins.

What about priests who scold you during confession? My last confession, a little more than a year ago, was brutal and come out very disappointed and defeated.

@kemmow25

4 жыл бұрын

Frank, so a lay person who goes every 2-3 weeks i am sorry a priest did that. Fr Larry Richards did a talk and then even stressed that no priest has the right to do that during a confession. I guess the only thing i can say to another brother is head to a different parish and know that you are doing your part. I am sure Fr Casey if he see this will chim in and help.

@ortebalm09

4 жыл бұрын

Damien Paroski my confession was about me spreading heresy, and my scold was based on me that I was turning 30 as being too old to look for a wife. I let the priest know that I was interested in Latin Rite Mass but he quite pretentiously told that if that was an excuse to sin. Caught me off guard. I went with the intention of seeking counseling and confort, I mean I went with repentance and obligation to cleanse my soul and reconcile. Felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there.

@ginastanziale8398

4 жыл бұрын

Bert Clayton I’m just gonna be honest with this thread rn. I am afraid of confession. It always makes me feel like I’m a horrible person or that I’m in trouble. Like nothing I ever do is good

@Memetchi95

4 жыл бұрын

Totally understand you. I think priests should study not only theology, but they should also go into psychology while attending the Seminary. However my suggestion is to find a priest who could be your confessor. Having a confessor has helped me to grow in the Faith; he knows my story and he knows my struggles, so I don't need to be afraid or ashamed of my sins. Even my confessor is 80, I think younger priests, such as fr. Casey, are more focused on God's mercy, than on just moral standards. Yes, repentance is the most important presuppositions, but remember that Reconciliation is the moment in which God wants to bring back to your heart its Peace: «may God give you pardon and peace» the priests says at the end of the rite. Meditation about the Parable of the prodigal son always helps me to enter into God's Mercy.

@kemmow25

4 жыл бұрын

@@damienparoski2033 if I can add to this. One time when I was in line I was feeling such a pull and shame to get out of line. As I was turning around I say going into the other line a religious sister wanting into the other confessional. So when I feel ashamed I already tell myself God know what I did, what is in my heart and ever runs go to confession. We are all sinners even religious members.

Polluting the eviironment ?

Doesn’t the commandment to love others as you love yourself cover everything, for example to give to the poor, not to gossip being only two such examples!

@stephenshop4946

3 жыл бұрын

True, if the the thought, feeling, action, go out of bounce from love, it's sin. And love is described in 1 Corinthians 13.

Father have you thought of running for Congress?

UCCB resource link www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/penance/examinations-of-conscience.cfm

I am afraid that sometimes there are disputes about the hompophobic, racist, or sexist definitions. Is it homophobic to think homosexual acts are objectively wrong? Sexist to think women and men are different? Racist to oppose illegal immigration? One should always examine one's intentions, as well as one's behavior, and a priest should help with that, because you are both judge and doctor.

@xp_studios7804

4 жыл бұрын

I would say it is homophobic in a sense to think homosexual actcs are wrong. Women and men are different, so as long as you don't put one above the other, it's fine It's not racist to oppose illegal immigration, though it may be to oppose all immigration

@mariao62

4 жыл бұрын

Yet the Church says that homosexual acts are sinful. Being same-sex attracted is not. All people should be loved and cared for, but not encouraged in sin.

@undolf4097

4 жыл бұрын

XP_Studios I guess that depends on the motivation. certainly God assumes that people will emigrate among each other

@undolf4097

4 жыл бұрын

I’m also unsure what he means by homophobic. I honestly just want to know the answer. I know he won’t suggest we support gay marriage but I do want to know what the Church considers the limitations are.

@lisamarie5149

4 жыл бұрын

I think Fr. Casey needs to be clearer about these issues. You can't be homophobic for believing homosexual acts are wrong and disordered because that is the teaching of the Church. We should have a healthy revulsion of same-sex actions because they go against God and nature. However, I'm not clear on how the average person commits an environmental sin. Unless you're the head of a large corporation that intentionally and maliciously pollutes the environment, how could you sin that way? Is it a sin to drive a big car, eat meat, or use plastic? Is it a sin to not vote for politicians who support the Green New Deal? How does the average person sin this way? Fr. Casey should really explain this further.

I committed the sin of avarice from messing around with spiritual energies with a pagan massagist.

You could never convince me that doing personal things while at work and getting paid for it is a sin (or I should say, you could not have convinced me of it back when I was a Christian)

@thomasgibbons3537

Жыл бұрын

If you're not doing what you're paid to be doing at work, isn't that "stealing"?

@emperortransman

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasgibbons3537 No. There are many things I don't get paid to do at work. Breathe, go to the bathroom, scratch my arm

Serious question, Father: What does “homophobic” mean for Catholics? How am I supposed to know if I’ve entered into it?

@perezcorona_

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob Rominger it’s discrimination against people who are homosexual

@undolf4097

4 жыл бұрын

dinosaur :D but we do that for marriage and adoptions

@BEASTLYMAN96

4 жыл бұрын

@@undolf4097 mistreating them just because they're homosexual would probably be homophobic. But standing up for TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE between a man and a woman is NOT homophobic no matter what people tell you. It is defending God's law.

@perezcorona_

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob Rominger i wonder why discriminate homosexual couples who want to adopt? they’re taking care of children and giving them a home.

@brentoneccles

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob Rominger Are you as open to and affirming of the dignity of homosexuals as anyone else? Therein you may find the answer to your question.

What exactly is the point of going to a priest who often committed more sins than many of the people who go to confession?

@BreakingInTheHabit

Жыл бұрын

The sacraments are not based on the holiness of the priest but on the holiness of Jesus who works through the priest.

If you read the Bible...bam- all you need to know. Follow the instructions of the Saints, clearly they have it right.

USCCB?? help

@pax9864

Жыл бұрын

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. They have a website, which seems to have a great deal of information lurking about!

@pax9864

Жыл бұрын

I think there's an app, too?

And how did Jesus talk about the pharacies?

It’s okay to be against the lgbtq lifestyle and agenda. Homophobic is “their” framing and i reject the accusation. Go and sin no more.

Why do priests give people penances during the sacrament of Reconciliation when Jesus forgave unconditionally? He simply told them to sin no more.

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Because people often don't know how to simply go and sin no more. The penance is a helpful guide to get them back on the right path.

@marknowak

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit 1) That wasn't Christ's example. 2) And 5 Hail Marys provides the how? (Very much appreciate the response though. And I also appreciate the sincerity of your videos. I was an RCIA team member for 14 years and my wife and I taught 2 home groups of teenagers for Confirmation. But ...)

is polluting really a sin???

@epicstyle4657

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.......try to read on chemistry and how substances interact with various other substances......ask yourself.....where does the plastic go when it goes into water......does it just stay there or does it decompose similar to a dead body.....what is plastic made of? If you intentionally litter and are conscious of what plastic can do to the environment (it basically kills and poisons it) then you are indeed sinning.

@BreakingInTheHabit

4 жыл бұрын

I recommend reading Pope Francis' Encyclical "Laudato Si." He teaches quite clearly that there is a direct connection between the way we treat the environment and the way we treat the poor. The poor always suffer most from pollution and environmental degradation. More fundamentally, God says that we are to be stewards of the earth. That must be taken seriously.

@mrballerpants3813

4 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit I was also wondering if you could elaborate at all on your mention of homophobic tendencies (and maybe help me out with an example or two) thanks in advance

Why on earth does this sacrament have to be so complicated

wait wait wait... back up.. homofobia is a sin in a church that preaches that homosexuality is a moral evil? I'm intrigued, can someone elaborate

@BreakingInTheHabit

2 жыл бұрын

Homophobia is the irrational hatred of people with same sex attraction. Hatred is a sin. There is a difference between hating someone to the point of depriving them of human rights, and simply believing that sex should only be between men and women.

@tobak952

2 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit thank you for your reply.. Im still a bit confused though. Is choosing who to love not a human right? is intimacy with the partner of your choice between consenting adults in the privacy of your own bedroom not a human right? How do you reconcile not hating someone, with the belief that who they are and who they love is abominable in the eyes of an all just and merciful God, and is an "intrinsic moral evil"?

Mark 2:7 “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”

Comment number two at three minutes from publishing. :)

15 minutes in the confession and the line is long. It is an hour before mass so only 4 people can make it. Humm, what sins these folks have that must take that long to be in there? Did they violate 500 laws in the Jewish laws? I already sinned standing in the line waiting for my turn. Oh God have mercy on me.

I just don't think many people are homophobic anymore.

@rvdb7363

4 жыл бұрын

I encounter homophobic 'jokes', comments and prejudice often, from colleagues, family and random strangers. Fellow Christians have condemned me just because I am attracted to people of the same gender. And mind you, I don't live in a hyper conservative country. Actually the opposite, I live in one of the most liberal countries in the world. My country was the first to allow gay marriage in 2001 and acceptance of LGBT people is one of the highest in the world. And even there homophobia is still part of life for LGBT people...

Where does Jesus say in the Gospels (or elsewhere) we must have a "preferential option for the poor"? I thought that came from the discredited "Liberation Theology."

@mom22preemies

4 жыл бұрын

When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, "I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” (NIV)

@mom22preemies

4 жыл бұрын

Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. 24 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort. 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. 26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

I confess that I never have gone to a priest, and confess a priest has never come to me :) Who needs people in fancy clothing? Can you imagine the Apostles in confessional boxes in the desert. Lol.

@giovannimartini6405

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the fancy clothes and the boxes are the less important things! I've had many confessions outside the box, standing and with a priest who was wearing street clothes.

You really love to hear peoples sins don’t you

How arrogant to make the Ten Commandments 20

No thank you. I don't want to be probed by a Priest I don't know.

Blah blah blah you have dead fruit