When you admit your sins to a priest it is called a confession. Some say it is better to confess your sins to a higher power so that it is only between you and them.
When you admit your sins to the priest, you participate in the sacrament of reconciliation, also known as confession. This process involves acknowledging your wrongdoings, expressing genuine remorse, and seeking forgiveness. The priest offers guidance, assigns a penance, and assures you of God's mercy, helping to restore your spiritual state and strengthen your relationship with God. It is a moment of reflection, healing, and renewal.
The Reconciliation room is where you go when you want to admit all of your sins and ask God's forgiveness. Usually there is a separation between you and the priest so that the priest doesn't see you. A priest directs the session.
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Yes, but technically, we confess our sins to God through the priest.
In the Roman Catholic sacrament of confession, you confess your sins to a priest.
Discern whether or not you're truly sorry. If you are. Go to a priest and give him your confession. Your sins will be absolved (by God) through the priest. Then you can start fresh. The previous sins will be forgotten.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe sacrament in which one confesses one's sins is called Penance. The common name used by the laity is Confession, but technically it is the Sacrament of Penance.
Catholics confess their sins to a priest because they believe it is a way to seek forgiveness from God and receive spiritual guidance and support. The priest acts as a mediator between the individual and God, offering absolution and helping the person to make amends for their sins. This practice is rooted in the belief that the priest has been given the authority to forgive sins by Jesus Christ.
Yes, according to Catholic doctrine, a priest has the authority to forgive sins through the sacrament of confession or reconciliation.
Confession
You will have to admit that Jesus died for you on the cross for your sins.
Humans may forgive certain sinners but spirits which live with the humans never forgive and never leave the sinners without punishing them. This is always happening in all humans' lives. God cannot watch each and every human being at the same time. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Destiny can also be considered as fate. To win a fate a person needs abnormal intelligence. First of all a person must have in memory each and every incidents and accidents of his life. Then he must have the capacity of judging his own life without partiality. And then he must have clear knowledge of his actions by which the reactions he had faced in his life. Then he must have the experience of foreseeing the effects of his errors and changing it in an intellectual way. These things are not so easy. Further it's very difficult to escape from the decision of the spirits. Despite more caution and all security measures the spirits can find the way and finish the matter as they have destined. So also if an ordinary person is destined for an imperial life, no obstacles can stop him. Even death is determined by them. God never bothers whether people believe in him or not. God's direct intervention in individuals' affairs is very rare. God doesn't watch each and every human being at the same time and cannot live with each and everyone to guide them. These works are done by the spirits. God had created different kinds of spirits for various purposes. He had made the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits, not for human beings. God is a mystery even to the spirits. Spirits are not eternal beings but their lifetime is long. Spirits are separate elements. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, instincts, interests and everything. Further there will be always some spirits with you on behalf of your parents, friends, relatives and Gods you believe. Only these spirits make you remember them in a certain situations. All of these spirits are your consciousnesses and memories. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A mind is a group/formation of many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. A mind is just like a computer's mind. After the computer is completely destroyed you will not get its mind. The same is the case with the human beings. A brain is a device used by the spirits to control the body and mind. (A senior spirit or a chief can control other spirits) A human being doesn't have a spiritual body. Soul is an energy needed for the functionality of a body. It is not a spirit or anything else. A body's functionality is based on the auto mechanism. After death all spirits which accompanied a person quit and go to different places searching new bodies. No one lives after death in any form. All human beings are just robots made of flesh and bones and toys of the spirits for their games.