Absurd post-Confirmation OCD

[superamazingman]

Oddly enough, I’m not that bad with confession… I unfortunately find the Rosary repetitive, unless it’s a Scriptural Rosary… Always liked spiritual readings and novenas, though. Sorry if I sounded irritable earlier.

Try the Liturgy of the Hours.

 

[JimG]

Another reason to return to latin.

Well, it was just a personal observation. In my youth, the priest spoke the words of absolution in Latin. He pronounced Latin with an Irish accent and spoke very fast. I doubt that I could have understood him clearly even if I knew Latin well. But nobody ever came out of the confessional and said, I don’t think he got the formula right.

At Mass, I tried to follow along in the Latin-English missal, but again, no one listened closely to the priest and tried to second guess whether he was ad-libbing. (And of course, he wasn’t, he was following the Latin in his own sacramentary!) But I don’t particularly yearn for a return to Latin, provided the English is done reverently, and the text and rubrics are treated with just as much respect as if they were in Latin!