Anyone else here like confession?

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I mean I do not like to mortally sin. I do my absolute best to avoid it. However, there is something so wonderful to me about the sacrament and I find myself in awe of it so to speak. Anyone else feel like this?
 
Yes. Knowing that I’ve been forgiven and have the opportunity to start over again in humbling, consoling, and over the top wonderful. It’s my chance to become a new creation in Christ yet again.
 
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I find that when I go frequently and regularly, I’m more generous and compassionate, and a lot more mindful of my interactions with others and with God.
 
I both like it and don´t like it at the same time.
It´s better those times where I choose to go without knowing that I have to haha.
 
Yes, I like it, too, especially since we have some great priests around here. We had a big confession this last weekend with lots of priests covering 24 hours. I went in and just asked God to get me to the “right” priest and had a really good confession and discussion with an amazing and down to earth priest. I’m so grateful!
Years ago an aquaintance (Lutheran, then married/converted Catholic, now Happy Clappy Giganto Church of Friendliness) dismissed it as “confession in a box”. Oh, what she’s missing!
 
I like it immensely. Knowing that it is not available 24/7 makes it less likely for me to take it for granted. That is, it encourages me to strive to keep myself free of mortal sin. On the occasions where I slip up, and cannot confess for a couple of days, I feel anguished and guilty, until I get absolved, and that’s a reminder to do better. 🙂
 
Yup.

As I am, I’ve been going once a week. I love it. It’s annoying to be confessing the same stuff over and over again, but I’d rather that than damnation.

Thank God for reconciliation!
 
Same here. I can’t honestly say I “like” it, but it is like going to a doctor. I certainly like being healed, and that’s what confession does, spiritually.

I normally go behind the screen, but if I am comfortable or feel the need to, I will go face to face. Once upon a time, when I was discussing a sensitive matter, I just rose off my knees, walked around the screen, said something like “oh, never mind, this isn’t going to work”, and sat down in the chair right in front of the priest. I have to wonder if he got a chuckle out of that afterwards 😁
 
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This is the wonderful thing about confession: we don’t have to guess or try to figure out if we’ve been forgiven. We know we’ve been forgiven.
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Amen to that. It’s one of the things that I bring up when someone says they can confess directly to God and don’t need a priest. Yes, of course you can and should ask God directly to forgive you. But you don’t get that confirmation that you need. Hearing the words makes all the difference.
 
Yes I do! Im going tomorrow. The priests are always so wise and kind with me and they literally don’t care what you say
 
I wouldn’t say I enjoy confession but the peace and relief I feel afterward is wonderful. That’s something I never had during my time in protestant churches. I’d ask for forgiveness from God but I’d never feel forgiven and I always knew something was missing.
 
I don’t like needing to go, but I sure love walking out and knowing my sins are absolved. Most of the time, my sins seem so insignificant in the realm of sin, but they are mine and mine to confess.
 
Yes, I know what you mean.

While I hate sinning, I love Confession.
 
Of course I like confession. I’m just a little uncomfortable with what seems to be a rather recent trend toward lengthier confessions, both among penitents and confessors, especially if I am at the end of the confessional line.
 
Yes!! I absolutely love it. I always get a little nervous before I go, but I am so very grateful for this Sacrament and go as often as I can.
 
I LOVE going to Confession! To get all that weight off my soul is exhilarating! I come out feeling lighter than air.

Mama, on the other hand, is all “deer in the headlights” when I tell her we have to go to Confession. I always let her go first because I’ve learned from experience that if I don’t, she’ll run, well, glide with her walker, out the door while I’m inside unburdening my soul. Confession truly terrifies her.
 
During the first year as a Catholic I didn’t like going to confession but I knew I had to. Now it is a normal act of what I do during a month.

Having that internal dialogue before going is sometimes hilarious for finding reasons not to go.
“You are going to confession tomorrow.”
“I don’t want to!”
“I know you don’t want to but you know you need to go.”
“I have to do the dishes. (which I hate.)”
“Haven’t you learnt by now that God is going to talk with you when you are doing dishes or cleaning the house especially when you least expect it?”
“I don’t like to go to confession in parish X.”
“There are other parishes in the area. Do you have more stupid excuses for not going?”
…. …. …. … … …

Becoming Catholic and going to confession regularly and also having the possibility to go to Mass several times per week has made major changes in the way I think and act. It is like my life is a before being Catholic and then being Catholic.
 
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