Confession to a hard of hearing priest

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Last night I went to an Advent Penance Service. The priest I said my confession to was hard of hearing. I am not sure if he heard all my sins. I was confessing my sins and he started asking me to speak up. He kept asking me to speak up and if I had other sins. Then I got nervous thinking I should have confessed something else. I would say something and not be able to finish because he sometimes interruped me with a question. It got so confusing on what I was saying and what he was asking me, I am not even sure if I told him everything. I asked him if heard what I said and he said he did. This did not feel like a good confession at all. Were my sins forgiven or do I need to repeat the confession again.
 
Yes, I’m sure your sins were forgiven. Although the Priest had a hard time hearing, God didnt. Think of it this way, if he didnt hear all your sins, you still had the courage to confess them and say them aloud, and he gave you Absolution. Unless you intentionally lied or withheld something then your Confession was valid. God Bless,
Jacob :signofcross:
 
I agree. God heard and forgave.

Speaking of forgiving, please forgive me, but I see a Saturday Night Live skit material here. 😉
 
Your confession was good and as the others say, God heard you. It is Jesus in there as the priest. The human may not have heard you well, but Jesus did.

On a side note, I had a similar issue once in a quiet church with a line of penitents. The priest was very old, hard of hearing but the problem was he spoke back LOUDLY. Everyone in line could hear his remarks to the penitent. It was terrible. I told him after “bless me Father for I have sinned…” that he could speak softly and I would hear him. He then went into a diatribe about a hole in the door where a knob used to be (very true!) and that was why people could hear him. I had embarrassing sins to confess and I know people outside heard what they were because he repeated them in his advice to me…LOUDLY. Then, strangely, when he told me to say an act of contrition he went into an instruction on how to say one properly and made me repeat line by line. I think it made him happy to do so but I felt like I was 6 yrs old…and I’ve been saying a proper act of contrition for 20 years! God bless him!

Peace in Christ!

Trob (I really must come up with a better name than this!)
 
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Your confession was good and as the others say, God heard you. It is Jesus in there as the priest. The human may not have heard you well, but Jesus did.

On a side note, I had a similar issue once in a quiet church with a line of penitents. The priest was very old, hard of hearing but the problem was he spoke back LOUDLY. Everyone in line could hear his remarks to the penitent. It was terrible. I told him after “bless me Father for I have sinned…” that he could speak softly and I would hear him. He then went into a diatribe about a hole in the door where a knob used to be (very true!) and that was why people could hear him. I had embarrassing sins to confess and I know people outside heard what they were because he repeated them in his advice to me…LOUDLY. Then, strangely, when he told me to say an act of contrition he went into an instruction on how to say one properly and made me repeat line by line. I think it made him happy to do so but I felt like I was 6 yrs old…and I’ve been saying a proper act of contrition for 20 years! God bless him!

Peace in Christ!

Trob (I really must come up with a better name than this!)
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God always finds ways to keep us humble, no? Just think of all the purgatory you worked off right there 😃

I went to confession a while ago with an elderly priest who also seemed to talk to me as if I were a child.

Oh well, guess compared to him I am 🤷 - and certainly we’re all children in God’s eyes, so he might’ve had a point.
 
Catholic90 said:
Have you seen THIS ?
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My first confessions were in a curtained confessional in the back of church. My whole class lined up outside for our turn and wouldn’t you know the priest had a hearing problem that required a megaphone sort of instrument that connected the two booths :o
Needless to say - no privacy:blush:
Oh it was all Ok and it did not discourage me from going to cconfession again.🙂
 
Light1 said:
Last night I went to an Advent Penance Service. The priest I said my confession to was hard of hearing. I am not sure if he heard all my sins. I was confessing my sins and he started asking me to speak up. He kept asking me to speak up and if I had other sins. Then I got nervous thinking I should have confessed something else. I would say something and not be able to finish because he sometimes interruped me with a question. It got so confusing on what I was saying and what he was asking me, I am not even sure if I told him everything. I asked him if heard what I said and he said he did. This did not feel like a good confession at all. Were my sins forgiven or do I need to repeat the confession again.
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Yes, your sins were forgiven
 
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