RazarTuk

Not u/fr-josh, but I can't resist the opportunity for this joke:

Et cum spiritu tuo

And, secondly, why do you believe that you must report your sins to a priest?

We don't, or not quite.

Humans are physical creatures, and as such, we like having physical confirmation of things. Take, for example, the clicking of digital cameras which lack any lenses to be clicking. Jesus, especially having been incarnate, understood this, and set up the Sacraments as outward (physical) signs of inner (spiritual) graces.

For example, the Trinitarian baptismal formula and water baptism aren't some magic invocation that forces God to save you, and without with, He can't do anything. We also believe in baptism by desire (if you meant to be baptized, we don't think God will hold it against you if you die before you got a chance) and baptism by blood (if you aren't baptized, but die a martyr, that counts).

Similarly, there's no metaphysical reason God couldn't just forgive us of our sins whenever we pray. (And technically, that works for venial sins) But instead of leaving us to constantly doubt and worry, Jesus left the institutional priesthood, partly to be that verbal confirmation that, yes, your sins have been forgiven by Jesus.

"Divine" does not rhyme with "yours". I don't care if they want to remove informal pronouns. At least update the translation with it, so things still rhyme.

(Referring to the sequence for Pentecost)

It's a longer read, but I recommend the Divine Comedy for more information on sin. Everyone stops reading after the Inferno, but the Purgatorio is actually foundational to my understanding of sin. (It's not called the Summa in Verse for nothing...)

Doctor who?