1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Psalms 51:1, ESV

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I will be holding live rosary sessions every Saturday from now on. What time is best for you all?

A homily on gossip:

My priest once relayed a story of a man who goes to confession for gossip, as his penance the priest tells him to buy a chicken and walk around the town plucking every feather and throwing it into the wind and then to return to him. He agreed, slightly dumbfounded. He returns and asks what next, the priest tells him to go around the town and pick up every feather he cast off into the wind.

Gossip is a particularly nasty sin because it not only leads others into sin, but also the effects can be far reaching and it continues to spiral even after you have made peace with God. A little stolen item can be forgiven and then returned with little harm to the person you sinned against, but gossip is so much more insidious, albeit it subtle, but the devil is nothing if not tactful and his only virtue is patience

Sedes will post shit like this like we haven’t had popes with penchants for prostitutes. For most of history most Catholics had absolutely no idea who the Pope even was. Sedes gonna seethe, Heaven’s gonna grieve.

When I was confirmed, the bishop gave a homily on the sign of the Cross - to never be afraid of doing it, particularly in public, before and after meals.

What damage it does to the faithful, or would-be faithful, to witness such cowardice, such indifferentism, from the one who is appointed to lead souls to heaven.

This is Socrates’ advice for a good confession. I remind you there is a “save message” feature on telegram (I think, I’ve never personally used it).

This advice is to help you to make a good confession, even protecting yourself from a sinful one, by not taking the sacrament seriously enough through introspection and reflection. We do not rush into any other sacrament, we observe fasts before the receiving the Holy Eucharist, we certainly consider marriage carefully, so why should we wantonly receive absolution for our sins without due consideration? This will be especially useful for those who attend confession regularly without having committed mortal sin, which I strongly recommend since “Even an empty room acquires dust” as said Padre Pio (I think, but it’s a good quote nevertheless).

So it is my personal practice and advice to ask the same Lord who offers forgiveness for our sins to reveal them to us, that we may be fully contrite and fully humbled by them, as is why we are permitted to sin in the first place. But let our shame not diminish us and make us feel small, but call to mind God’s great glory and mercy by offering us pardon for them.

This particular devotion consists of using a 7 Dolors of Mary rosary (or an adapted version with a standard 10 bead variety) to reflect on our sins. I find that each of us have one of the 7 deadly sins which we hold in particularly high regard, which draws us into other sins. The 7 were first conceived of because they serve Satan as a gateway to other sins, so therefore by reflecting on them and seeking reconciliation with God, let us walk back through that gate, slam the door shut in Satans face and chide him through the bars.

“He who blushes to discover his sins to a man, and who will not confess, shall be covered with shame on the Day of Judgment in the presence of the whole universe."
-St John Chrysostom

1:
- In the name of the Father (touch forehead) and the of son (you know the rest), and the Holy Spirit
- Recite the Apostles Creed

2. On each of the beads say the prayer “O Lord, grant me the light, to see myself as thou dost see me, and the grace to be truly and effectively sorry for my sins. Holy Mary, help me to make a good confession.”

3:
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, especially those most in need of thy mercy
- Lord assist me to know the times at which my pride has led me to push you away in the conceit of my heart, as I reflect upon the sins of pride.
- A minute to reflect upon the sins of pride (We start with pride since it is the origin of all the sins you will later come to. Rejecting God is to aggrandise your own will above his, to think you know better and can make it alone. The cure is humility, hence it is fruitful to take time to acknowledge just how weak we are and how repugnant a sinner we have been. If you need assistance in acquiring this humility, beseech the Virgin Mary, the ever glorious Queen of Humility). Here are some things to consider:
• Have I willingly rejected the teachings of God?
• Have I thought myself above his commandments?
• Have failed to acknowledge my sins in my own heart?
• Am I truly humbled by my sin and truly contrite for them (this is a separate sin, which can also be confessed)?
• Am I not truly sorry for my sin and intend to do it again?
• Have I or am I presuming on God’s mercy?
• Have I denied God
• Have I blasphemed against God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit
• Have I spoken of God dismissively or disrespectful of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints or Prophets?
• Have I failed to forgive my neighbour?
• Have I inflated my own needs above those of others
• Have I considered myself to be above others in piety, sanctity or any other metric?
• Have I marvelled and admired my own glories?
• Have I been vain?
• Have I failed to genuflect or be otherwise insufficiently humbled by God’s glory?
• Have I committed sacrilege
• Have I failed to bear testimony to God against strife and persecution?
• Have I failed to perceive God in everybody?
- Our Father…

4: See 2

5:
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus…
- Lord assist me to know the times at which my lustfulness has led me to indulge in the impermanent and rotten fruits of this world, over your bread of life, as I reflect upon the sins of lust:
• Have I committed the sin of formication (the sin of scandal to your sexual partner should be confessed too, since, if you are a man it is your duty to safeguard your woman from evil, and if you are a woman you should know better than to entice your man)
• Have I ventured too far with another and failed to protect myself from the near temptation to sin (Kissing too passionately, groping places you shouldn’t etc)
• Have I been avoided the near occasion of sin with my pre-marital partner by allowing myself to be left alone with them I.e staying over at their house, sharing the same room at a hotel on holiday, moving in with them before marriage etc?
• Have I made use of contraception
• Have I failed to safeguard my gaze (a glance that leads to a lustful stirring is an innocent mistake, merely indicative your reproductive organs functionality. A second glance is a venial sin, returning to what you know now you shouldn’t desire, but brooding and meditating on it later is a mortal sin, voluntarily choosing to occupy your mind with wickedness over God)
• Have I watched pornography?
• Have I masturbated?
• Have I committed adultery
• Have I committed adultery in my heart and lingered too long on thoughts or desires for other women when I am married or committed to my pre-marital partner?
• Have I spoken or joked about matters of lust, which may invoke the urges of another and lead them to sin?
• Have beheld sex and sensual passions over God and made them too much a feature of my heart, failing to turn them over to God?
• Have I been too open to sex, though unrequited, but merely due to lack of opportunity more than rejection of sin?
• Have I advised others to commit lustful sins or failed to council them away from things which may lead them closer to sin e.g failing to tell a friend they should cut ties with the hello kitty girl on monthly contraception injections?
• Have I avoided the near occasion of sin by avoided places which invoke temptation e.g visiting an ex’s house, walking by a strip club, swimming at a nudist beach etc
• Have I allowed temptation to dwell and fester in my mind or fondly recalled in detail any past sexual encounter?
- Our Father…

6:
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus…
- Lord assist me to know the times where my greed and desire for Earthly possessions has drawn me away from the heavenly, as I reflect upon the sins of greed:
• Have I been stingy with my money during mass?
• Have I refused to give alms to those who need it more (there is always somebody who needs it more)
• Have I more personal possessions than I require?
• Have I been frivolous with money?
• Have I placed the pursuit of earthy wealth over spiritual wealth e.g missing mass for extra shifts at work
• Have I been failed to do charitable work because it was unpaid?
• Have I failed in my spiritual duties for the sake of personal gain e.g failing to evangelise for the sake of networking and wanting to be liked?
• Have I been resisting a call to Holy Orders for the sake of world possessions?
- Our Father

To be continued

7.
- Glory be…
- O my Jesus…
- Lord assist me to know the times where my gluttony has led me to overindulge in the bread of this world which will leave me hungry, rather than focuses on the bread of eternal life, as I reflect upon the sins of my gluttony:
• Have I failed to observe the fast days of the church or my own fasts I undertook out of personal piety?
• Have I eaten far beyond my own requirements?
• Have I eaten purely for decadent reasons
• Have I failed to thank God for the food I have an been ungrateful?
• Have I eaten foods which I know are bad for me purely for decadence’s sake?
• Am I overweight due to a lack of self control?
• Have I failed to observe days of abstinence such as during lent or on a Friday (without adequate substitution through minor penances/acts of piety, if your archbishop is lenient on Friday abstinences)
• Have I eaten and rejected the primary endpoint of food I.e sustenance e.g ensuring vomiting to eat more etc
- Our Father