“Our Lord’s words could not be any clearer. To be forgiven any sin, one must be sorry for having committed it, which obviously includes the intention of not committing it anymore.”
That’s naive... Not on our Lord’s part but on YOURS’S for believing such an interpenetration.
I go to confession as a Catholic. My sins are many but there always pretty much the same. Time after time after time, year after year after year.
It may be my wish - with the Lord’s help, not to sin again, but it would be disingenuous to think or state that it was my intention. Surely I know that I will.
After 60+ years and countless confessions. Really...
How do you define “intention”?
Scouter is actually correct. We are supposed to have a firm purpose of amendment. If you are confessing something without at least thinking you are going to try to change, then you probably shouldn’t be confessing it.
Failure to succeed in one’s intention is not the same thing as being insincere in it. The fact that you keep trying to overcome a sin, especially a sin you find so difficult to conquer, is proof of the sincerity of your intention.