[Mrs. Don-o]

Confession without repentance --- which means turning away from sin, and a sincere intent not to sin again --- is a sacrilege. Not only is the entire Confession invalidated, but is constitutes an additional sin in itself.

Any 7 year old preparing for their First Confession knows this. Repent means you're sorry and you promise --- with the help of God's grace --- --- not to do it again.

[Sacajaweau]

My first confession was....I stepped on Mrs. Cullian's lawn 500 times. I lied 500 times. I disobeyed 500 times.

Good thing we didn't describe EACH incident.

As years passed...I learned which priest gave 3 Our Fathers and 3 Hail Marys.....no matter what you did.

[Cvengr]

Metanoia isn’t feeling sorry.

It is a change of one’s thinking.

When we week fellowship with God, it occurs by facing God, recognizing what Jesus Christ performed on the Cross, stating our missing His Plan to Him, through faith in His payment for those sins.

God is free to now forgive those sins placing us immediately back into a personal fellowship with Him, because the payment has already been performed by Christ on the Cross for all mankind, past, present, and future.

Repentance does NOT mean we will never sin again. God can see the future for all eternity future and knows before we sin what will occur. He still forgives us upon our turning back to Him away from anything other than His Plan, while we are in faith of what Christ provided on the Cross.