Confession + Priest Question

[BintuluChuchGuy]

Hello everyone,God bless you and shower on you graces this ordinary time.

Is it true that the priest won’t remember your sins after you went for confession?

I dont know where i heard this from,but I think its true.Is it like the grace of God for the priest to not remember one’s sins.

What do you think?

 

[Monica4316]

I heard that priests pray to forget sins after Confessions I think that after half an hour of Confession, it’s hard to remember all the details anyway

Hello everyone,God bless you and shower on you graces this ordinary time.

I like how you matched the color of the smiley and the liturgical color of ordinary time

 

[JaredR]

Maybe it is a grace sometimes that the priest is able to forget the confessions he hears, but it’s not true that memory loss is a sacramental grace. I think most of the time there are just so many confessions to hear and you hear the same things over and over again that you lose the details.

 

[acadian]

I’ve heard one priest say that he sometimes remember sins or sometimes remembers people, but not at the same time. For example, he’s not standing there talking to someone outside of the confessional remembering, “Oh yeah, this is the guy that confessed xyz.”

I go to the same confessor month after month, so I think he has some kind of “feel” for what I confess, but I think that once I leave the confessional, the “stuff” stays there until the next time I’m there. When I have dealings with him for other things, I don’t feel like he’s thinking, “Gee, I wonder if she’s remembering to pray/be patient/…”

 

[AndrewRaZ]

It could possibly a grace given by they Holy Spirit to some priests, or it could simply be that he hears so many confessions that he can’t remember the specifics and who said what.

I know personally, my pastor is my spiritual director as well (sometimes not recommended, but it’s a good fit for me right now). I asked him a spiritual direction question in the confessional once, and a week later at our spiritual direction meeting, asked for clarification, and he couldn’t remember the conversation from the confessional. He remembered that I was there, but that was it.

So I think it really varies.

 

[jmcrae]

Hello everyone,God bless you and shower on you graces this ordinary time.

Is it true that the priest won’t remember your sins after you went for confession?

I dont know where i heard this from,but I think its true.Is it like the grace of God for the priest to not remember one’s sins.

What do you think?

One time I ran into the priest that I go to Confession with, while walking down the street, so I said, “Hi.” I only ever see him in Confession, but I go quite regularly. Even so, he had absolutely no idea who I was.

So, I think at least some of them forget.

 

[Annabelle_Marie]

Our priest said that he is so busy concentrating on standing in for Christ that he honestly does not remember. I thought this was good as I had JUST been in to confession 1/2 hour before that.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

When we had a penance service at our church with mostly retired priests, our pastor joked that some of them have poor memories.