Perhaps the best advice I recall that given to me was that " Don't let your shame prevent you from coming back to Jesus. That shame is proof that your heart still belongs with Jesus and He wants you back very much."

Went to confession yesterday after 16 yrs of being away. First thing the priest said was, "Welcome back." Thank you for this video, Father. It helped me a great deal. God bless you.

I’m going to confession tomorrow after two years. This has helped me so much to know what to confess and what not to confess.

Confession takes a load of your soul. Don’t go to a therapist go to confession. It will save you money and it’s free. Just go. Your find a priest as a gentle lamb. And the joy Of being back in God good graces. Just go.

I am doing my first confession this week. These videos have been some of the most helpful thing I have fun across. Thank you!

How grateful I am for your guidance on what not to confess. I can’t count the number of times I have confessed what I thought is the sin of anger and being judgmental, or critical of others. Thanks so much!

I have found confession to be one of the greatest gifts. Not only can we receive forgiveness for sins committed, we can also receive the grace to avoid sin in the first place.

I don’t know how to overcome the fear of confession...it was easy as a child 25 years ago. Fr. thank for posting this video!

Wow. I have learned something new. I usually confess my anger because it is a direct cause for my failure to forgive. Thank you father Nicholas. God bless you as you continue to impart your knowledge.

Father William. Your clarity, alone, is healing. Thank you and Bless you

I have confession today for the first time, I’m scared but I know I will feel relieved after and I’m 14

Thanks Padre.Pretty straight forward info I wish it was explained like this at catechsim back in the 80s. Confession is my favorite part of being a Catholic just after The Holy Eucharist.

Wonderful to be reminded of the many meanings of "judgmental" and specifically the one that Jesus meant.

Thank you Fr.William. . Please keep sharing videos like these. God bless you always!

Wow! Thanks for great clarification!!! Excellent points and perspective and insight into a right attitude.

Thank you for this, Father.

Thankyou so much Father. I'm sure many more need to read this and learn this as many were not taught how to confess or just forgot. God bless you.

Thank you so much profoundly from the core of my Heart dear Father.

This has helped so much, as I have difficulty knowing what to and not confess ie what is not a sin. God bless you Father William 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Got great insight after watching this video ! Thank you very much Fr!! All glory to GOD🤲

Glad to know Fr.Bill what to confess and not too ..God bless you more Fr.Bill .Nice seeing you again even in you tube..thanks.

Thank you Father. This video really clarified things for me.

Thank Fr. for helping us to do a right confection and reconciliation.

Thank you so much Father for this.. It could help me a lot tonight,, I will go to the confession few hours from niw..💝🙏

Thanks be to God! A great, informative guide on confession

This was good and helpful... Thank you very much for making this!

Straightfoward and helpful. Thank you, Father!

I love Father Bill's directness. Godspeed, Father! You help us all.

Superb two-parter. Clear, concise and to the point. Just what I need as I begin my journey in God. Sub'd

I was on the verge of leaving the Catholic Church because of the cruelty I encountered in the parish priest. I couldn't stand it anymore. He did everything possible to humiliate people, including me. I hated him, and I hated the church because of him ( and I was a convert who clearly decided to become Catholic). This has restored my faith, and my sense of well-being. Thank you, Father William.

Amen! That was helpful and very clear speech. Fr William, i do appreciate your Holy videos very much!

Thank you Father. I only wish that I was able to see and hear years ago.

Thank you, Fr. William.

Thank you Fr; this was very helpful especially on the judgemental one. It’s always a thin line between calling someone out for erring and judging them but I like that it’s actually an act of charity when you tell someone they are being Unfair to others

Bravo, well done, at last Clarity. 🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🕊

Thanks Father Nicholas!

👍 Thank you Father Bill!

Father William, I do appreciate you advice.

Father, thank you for these informations. God bless you. Amen.

Thank you father for the video. There are lots of things you said I confess every time. Like anger, impatient. This helped me so much to avoid those areas.

Thanks Fr.Williams for you help and clear this out.May God bless you.

Great explanation of the Sacrament of Confession.

Thank you Fr Nicholas 💜

I love that clarification on Judging people. So many people are confused by that as the Bible talks about judging people in some parts and later it talks about not judging people elsewhere. People don't realize languages didn't have so many words to use as we have today in the English language. When the Bible talks about judging, you have to look at the context of the scripture as it could potentially mean several different things as Fr Nicholas mentions.

Thank you, father Nicholas

This was so helpful! I have been examining my conscience for the past 24 hours and more as I prepare to go to confession after over a decade of not going. This answered a lot of my questions and relieved many of my preconceived "hang-ups".

WOW!! I’m so glad I found your talk. I know I haven’t been confessing accurately. This will help. God Bless You Fr. Nicholas!

Fr., be glad you didn't hear my confess after 38 years of not confessing.

It's really a wonderful explanation, thank you Father for this important information and things that v need to know 👍

Amen Fr William! Always good to be back after 1 year, and listen to your Holy videos. And this one is from 2016! I wasn't on YT yet. Thank you Fr Bill. 3 Hail Mary's as everyday.

Fantastic! Thank you for this.

Very good Fr Bill

Thank you Father, very helpful.

So helpful, thanks Father!

Very helpful. Thank you. Just finished RCIA and will be doing first confession soon.

God bless you father

Thank you for making this video.

My sincerest thanks to you Father for making these videos. As a long time Catholic, I was neglectful about going to confession because I felt it wasn't as necessary as the Church always encouraged it would be for all of us. I am trying to be a better Catholic and person on a day by day basis and these explanations help me tremendously in that regard. These kinds of calm, well thought out explanations are easy to understand and truly do clear up possible confusions in my mind and I'm sure in the minds of many Catholics over the years. Thank you for your efforts and please keep up the great work. It's very much appreciated by those of us who seek a stronger level of faith and hopefully, for those out there who may have little or no hope in a better way of life, or who may be in search of that path through life. God Bless you for your devoted work.

Thank you, Father!! I'm often confused and even scrupulous about my confessions, and I tend to get "flowery" about them too. I hope confession will be easier for me after this. God bless you.

Much needed thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you so much this really helped me because i have sined alot thank you father

I wish I'd listened to this yesterday lol.

This is great thank you Far.most of the time I get confused .

Thks father for ur info. God bless!

Thank you for keeping your videos clear of destructive background music. Keep it up Father

I am 59 and have been catholic for 6 years but don't know much about confession very useful

Undoubtedly a good and sincere Priest an assett to the Catholic Church.Just wonder Father don't Priests get sick of listening to the repeditive often boring sins of the congregation not to mention the halitosis in such an often small and confined place?I would've thought telling them" yes go confess you sins to God"would be a relief after awhile . God has vast breathing space! *smile*.

Thank you Father for clarity.

Thanks Fr. William for your guidence. I can understand better now and you help me to think out of my sins.

This is funny, because I am definitely guilty of doing what father mentioned in the video. 😆

I sometimes confess my temptations, but not as my main reason for going to confession. If i have to go to confession, and if I’ve also been battling intense temptations, I will mention it as well.

Im going to confession in 30 mins and its my first confession this helped

How gracious.... no words to describe what Authority God gave to the church

This is wonderful information, Father Nicholas.

Thank you

This was helpful thank you Father. 🙃🙏💐

Yes, Father Williams is very helpful... I agree that often out of sheer ignorance, I too confessed those "what not to confess"... Thank you for giving to us this gem of the teaching of Christ, now bestowed on us through His Holy Church... pray for priests... they need our prayers....

This guy straight up sounds like Data from Star Trek! Very well spoken 👍🏻

Father Nicholas, thank you so much for your wonderful videos. I was welcomed into the Church in 1998 after four years of searching and study for the Church Jesus began. I felt like I was finally home, and the Eucharist was the most awesome experience in my spiritual life. I'm ashamed to say that after a few years, I stopped attending the Catholic Church. My wife didn't like the Church as we both grew up in a non-denominational church. Her brother had become a minister and pastor in a church similar to the one we used to attend, and our daughter and her family are also going there. I started attending this church for family reasons I guess, and it's a good church.... but, it will never be able to replace what I experienced in the Catholic Church. I've never been as close to God in my life as I was in the Church which has the Body and Blood of Christ, that has the successor of Peter as it's overseer in the office of the Pope. The communion of Saints, the Blessed Mother...etc... I just don't know how to get back without causing a major traumatic rift in my family. I pray God will lead me in the right direction and hopefully He can deal with their hearts ahead of time, before I let them know how I feel. Thank you Father and God bless you.

Maybe when people confess to "being judgemental", what they mean is a prideful attitude. Setting themselves higher than the other person as if they were superior or "better than you."

Thank you for this, nice, simple and direct. I don't want my fist confession being a Stephen King novel.

a priest that was temporarily assigned in the parish, gave An interest Penance that was to review the the explanation of either the readings or Gospel of the previous week that was in the Church bulletin (or the up coming readings if the previous week bulletin was not available )

Thank you this helped alot

That helps, thanks Father 🙏🏼

Thank you for explaining that the priest is bound by the seal of the confessional and he must keep what is said in the confessional in absolute confidentiality and the importance of not confessing the sins of other people. I cannot unspeak the words that I have spoken but I have had to eat them on many occasions. A day at a time..

Thank you Father.

How about confessing that I spend too much time on this computer and not enough time with my family or reading books.

Thanks that was really helpful.

Father I love you for teaching me this...everyone says don't commit sin ,and go to confession..but they never gives homilies on how to confess or what is sin except on the occasion before holy communion that happened in the long past

Thank you, this helped me a lot

Great video, Father - thank you! I'll try to watch part one and the remainder of part 2 asap. But I have heard that confessing one's temptations (which, sure enough, aren't sins) can lead to growing in humility. (Unfortunately I can't remember the source, but it may have been advice by a saint who practiced that.)

Thank you, Father for these statements of how to express our sins and what not to express. I found this very helpful. I am a woman religious and I wonder if you would have suggestions For a religious sister. Blessings and Peace on your teachings of this sacrament. Sr. Brigid

Fr. William, I just happened to scroll your videos. I'm thankful seen this. May God forgive me, I never go confession since 2009 After I left the Convent after that last confession I had with our spiritual director. Father, After how many years I'm engaging PMS and pray God for forgiveness in adoration chapels and sometimes I received communion. And as of this time I almost a year never go to Mass because of my job with occasional day off and never received communion too. Yeah I watched live mass online sometimes. I feel myself guilty when I go to mass because of PMS I had with different partners before until this February. Pray For me Father, please include in your prayer.. God Bless.

PRICELESS ...... AND GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL OF US

I have done it many times since the pandemic started

Thanks for the advice, Fr. Bill. I'm guilty of a couple of these 😄

The more often you go to Confession, the faster you life will improve, dramatically and substantially. Especially if you look at how to change your habits from sinful to virtuous.

So what’s left? I have to Lol…those are some of the things that I was going to say in my next confession, Im thinking about coming back to the church. I don’t abuse myself except for food maybe, I don’t have impurity, I’m in menopause lol. I try to follow the golden rule. I guess my biggest challenge is tending to believe in an eye for an eye…yeah I’ll go with that in confession.

Pray That I Will Detest My Bad Habits Sinful Tendencies Flee Evildoers

Pray Always read ur bible in the morning and the evening say ur Catholic or ur Anglican prayers morning daily evening and night