Reconciliation

Confessions Times:

TUESDAY 7:00 PM to 7:45 PM Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Sun Prairie
WEDNESDAY 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM St. Joseph, Waterloo
THURSDAY 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM St. Albert the Great, Sun Prairie
1ST FRIDAY 7:00 PM Bilingual St. Mary of the Nativity, Marshall (Adoration all night)
SATURDAY 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM St. Mary, Marshall
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM St. Albert the Great, Sun Prairie
3:30 PM to 4:00 PM St. Joseph, Waterloo
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Sun Prairie

Please check the calendar for changes
 

Special Reconciliation times and Penance services during Advent and Lent will be published in the bulletin.

If needed, special appointments for confession may be made through the parish office or directly with a priest.

Catechesis on Sin

All sin is an offense against God and a rejection of his perfect love and justice. Yet, Jesus makes a distinction between two types of sins. We call the most serious and grave sins, mortal sins. Mortal sins destroy the grace of God in the heart of the sinner. By their very grave nature, a mortal sin cuts our relationship off from God and turns man away from his creator. St. Paul’s letter to the Hebrews tell us that “if we sin willfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews 10:26).

The second type of sin, venial sin, that of less grave matter, does not cut us off from Christ. However, venial sin does weaken grace in the soul and damages our relationship with God. A person who frequently indulges in venial sin is very likely to collapse into mortal sin if they persist in their evil ways.

In order for a sin to be mortal, it must meet three conditions:

• Mortal sin is a sin of grave matter
• Mortal sin is committed with full knowledge of the sinner
• Mortal sin is committed with deliberate consent of the sinner

This means that mortal sins cannot be done “accidentally.” A person who commits a mortal sin is one who knows that their sin is wrong, but still deliberately commits the sin anyway. This means that mortal sins are “premeditated” by the sinner and thus are truly a rejection of God’s law and love.