Can a nun hear confession

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Brendan:
Yes. Only a person in Holy Orders may give a homily.

Some priests will attempt to get around by giving a short 'homily;, then inviting someone else to give a longer ‘talk’ or ‘reflection’.

That practice is also an error.

The good Sister should have been given time to speak after Communion, which is the appropriate place.
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Can you provide official documentation on this so that I can present it to the Msgr and ask him for clarafication the next time I observe it?
 
Sir Knight:
Can you provide official documentation on this so that I can present it to the Msgr and ask him for clarafication the next time I observe it?
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  1. The homily, which is given in the course of the celebration of Holy Mass and is a part of the Liturgy itself,142 “should ordinarily be given by the Priest celebrant himself. He may entrust it to a concelebrating Priest or occasionally, according to circumstances, to a Deacon, but never to a layperson.143 In particular cases and for a just cause, the homily may even be given by a Bishop or a Priest who is present at the celebration but cannot concelebrate”.144
  2. It should be borne in mind that any previous norm that may have admitted non-ordained faithful to give the homily during the eucharistic celebration is to be considered abrogated by the norm of canon 767 §1.145 This practice is reprobated, so that it cannot be permitted to attain the force of custom.
  3. The prohibition of the admission of laypersons to preach within the Mass applies also to seminarians, students of theological disciplines, and those who have assumed the function of those known as “pastoral assistants”; nor is there to be any exception for any other kind of layperson, or group, or community, or association.146
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Thank you. Where are you quoting this from so that I can reference it?
 
We had a priest here once who was a wonderful confessor and when I would urge someone to go to him, I would let them know that he had once been a bartender—so he has heard it all but in the old days he could not give absolution!

As to the nun with the oils–she can NOT and will not ever be able to administer the Sacrament of the Sick. She can ‘bless’ people I suppose. Our diocese ran a horrible front page article a few years ago about how the laity will one day be ‘doing; this sacrament. I wrote to the bishop because only an ordained priest will ever be able to do this. The bishop told me to read the catechism and Lumen Gentium. Well, I h ad read them and quoted some pertinent passages from them back to him. He did not answer the second letter. What a gross misleading thing it is to suggest that anyone other than a priest can hear confessions and give absolutions and the Sacrament of the Sick involves the forgiving of sins so that is why ‘sister’ cannot administer it’/ She never will be able to and this ‘widening’ will not occur.

I did experience , about 2 years ago, an occasion where I went to another parish to speak to the priest and thought I would come early for Saturday Mass. The deacon said that Father could not make it and he would have the service and would hear confessions too!!! I could not beleive it. And people went to him!!
I wrote to the bishop on that too.

I really hate liturgical and sacramental abuses.
Ave Maria!
 
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