10 Sins That Must Be Confessed

10 Sins That Must Be Confessed Before You Can Receive Holy Communion

These sins must be confessed before one can receive Holy Communion

1) Missed a weekend or Holy Day Mass without a valid reason

2) Having sex outside of marriage, with yourself (masturbation) or someone else

3) Desecrated the Eucharist

4) Haven't been to confession in a year

5) Use artificial birth control - condoms, pills, patches, IUD's, etc

6) Sponsor or help in any way with an abortion or any destruction of an embryo

7) Murder

8) Hate/Anger

9) Lust after someone

10) Pride, Greed, Sloth, Envy

The list is not exhaustive and you can add more in the comment section. Note that any sin that we have meditated on, understood its gravity and still chosen to do it can be a deadly sin. Numbers 8 through 10 would depend mostly upon the gravity of the sin.

C.C.C. 1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."131

1 Corinthians 11:27 27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.

Don't step out of bounds and by all means if you do, get back in bounds through confession! Don't desecrate the Eucharist and receive it as some sort of prize you've earned simply by showing up for Mass!

By Fr. John Hollowell