Confession Availability

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Not including “by private appointment” or other personal confession times,
How often is confession available to you within your immediate area?

In my general area it is available 2 days a week, but if I drive 30 miles I can receive the blessing of Reconciliation 7 days a week.
 
Daily confession at more than one location is just one of those benefits of living in Front Royal, Virginia.
 
Minor mistake when creating the poll, I forgot 6, so if you happen to live in an area that has confession 6 days a week, just select 7. It’s close enough to being every day of the week 😉
 
I assume that the poll question means in our own parish… that’s how I answered. I can find other parishes that offer more convenient times if Saturday afternoon doesn’t work. Saturday mornings are nice on the schedule sometimes, and there is a cuople of parishes close enough to attend there!
 
Confession is available six days in my Parish, including two sessions on Saturday (4:00 - 4:45 PM & 7:00 PM until all are heard), once a day Monday - Friday, and also Thursday before First Friday and the Eve before Holy Days of obligation.
 
Where I am, Confession is available without having to ask six days a week ---- every day except Sundays, obligatory Solemnities, and major national holidays (Memorial Day, 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving).

I don’t know anywhere in my diocese where there are scheduled Confession times on Sundays, but there probably is one somewhere.

karen marie
 
My parish has Confession scheduled for Saturday’s (the hour before the Sat. Vigil Mass)

But a nearby parish also has Friday scheduled confessions, and the Catholic church that is actualy nearest to my house is a Chaldean parish; they have confession scheduled for the 1/2 prior to their Sunday Divine Liturgy.

That makes 3 scheduled opportunities each week within an easy drive.
 
We have confession before every mass. Our priest is big on making confession available to everyone as much as possible.
 
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Brendan:
My parish has Confession scheduled for Saturday’s (the hour before the Sat. Vigil Mass)
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Around here, it’s more like 30 - 45 minutes before the first Saturday evening Mass. —KCT
 
At my parish, confession is available twice on Saturday.

I’ve been to parishes where confession availability is all over the place.

The record? St. Peter’s in the Loop.

This one has confessions from around 9AM to 6PM 5 days a week, and 9 to 1 saturdays. That’s because they got a religious order there.
 
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BobCatholic:
At my parish, confession is available twice on Saturday.

I’ve been to parishes where confession availability is all over the place.

The record? St. Peter’s in the Loop.

This one has confessions from around 9AM to 6PM 5 days a week, and 9 to 1 saturdays. That’s because they got a religious order there.
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that much confession time needed??? sound something other than “got religious”… 😃
 
Sorry, I accidently voted before reading this.
Not including “by private appointment” or other personal confession times,
How often is confession available to you within your immediate area?<<
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My pastor believes in confession, “on demand”. I can ask him any time after Mass. I do always ask if it’s a good time because he has many responsibilities in the diocese.

In this diocese confession attendance is extremely low, maybe 10 -12 a month in my parish. Other parishes have diminished to, “by appointment only” since virtually no one goes to confession.

Maria
 
At my parish, it’s once a week. At some of the other parishes it’s also weekly. But I’m not sure of all of them. It’s usually for only an hour.

One question that could have also been asked was how often we go. I try to go every month.
 
My parish offers confession a half hour befor **every **Mass. What is odd, is that confession is not stressed very much and I was even told that one of the two reconciliation rooms is used for storage. It is odd. The parish that I go to for confession offers it only on Saturday for one hour. There are a lot of people there every Saturday. I’ve never looked to see how many people are at confession at my own parish, but the pastor said one time that it was so busy one morning he was reading the paper.
 
Depending on the parish confession is available twice a week (Saturday and before one mass on Sunday) to 9 times a week. We have a new Bishop at our Diocese since the last one retired and also Pope John Paul II has stated that the Church needs to put more emphasis on the Sacrament of Reconciliation so we now have more availability. But just a few years ago when I came back to the Church (a revert) most parishes had confessions for a half hour to an hour on Saturday and that was it. I found the one parish which is downtown and has the 9 times a week (20 minutes before each mass all week long(except the 8:00AM mass)) and joined that parish instead of the one nearest me which is quite a bit more liberal. In fact one time I tried to go to the parish closest to me on a Saturday (they advertise Saturday confession 4:15PM til 5:00PM) and they just didn’t have it. I asked and the lady who was doing the greeting at the church before the vigil mass at 5:00PM that day said the priest said he couldn’t do confessions and get ready for mass too so they weren’t “doing” reconciliation that day. And what got me was the lady I spoke to told me to do a “Perfect Act of Contrition”, go to Communion and go to Confession when I got a chance. I just about fell over. I mean that’s a NO NO. Ya don’t do dat. Nope!
Oh well. I got to confession the next day at the downtown parish before mass.

God bless.
Whit
 
My parish offers confession twice a week (Wednesdays and Saturdays), and by appointment. During Lent, however, confession is scheduled every day but Sunday. (We also have additional daily Masses during Lent. Normally, there are two Masses every weekday. During Lent, three daily Masses are offered on weekdays.)
 
x1/wk - wish it were more

I like the idea of before each mass. I know people should make an effort to go to confession no matter how often it is offered, but, whether it’s right or not, people will go when it is convenient. At least it will get more people going. The “by appointment only” idea doesn’t draw in those who feel they need privacy.
 
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