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Paris Blues:
A.) The priest you are confessing to is acting in the person of Chirst. Meaning, he is sort of stepping in for Jesus, so in a way your confession is only between you and God. Also, the priest is bound by the seal of confession NEVER to tell ANYTHING he hears in a confessional. Even if you confess that you’ve murdered someone, and during trial proceedings the priest is brought in as a witness, he CANNOT tell that you committed the murder.
B.) You only need to confess your mortal sins (the really bad ones), and the veinial sins (the little ones) YOU decide if you want to confess them or not (I always do anyway, it just makes me feel better).
C.) Confessions are only heard in “the box.” The public confessions of the early Church have been done away with looong since.
Confession can be a little scary, but I’ll tell ya, I don’t know how I’d go on without weekly confession! It is SUCH a relief to get all those nasty sins off your soul!
God bless you! I’ll be praying that you do decide come home to Mother Church!
~Irish Catholic
Okay,If I do convert, I heard that you have to have your first confession and tell a priest
EVERY SINGLE thing that you did that you can remember!!!
:bigyikes:
I mean, just the thought of this is a little scary in a way 'cause there are some things that you just don’t want to tell another person…it’s between God and you only! :tsktsk: There are some things you don’t want another person to know about!!!
If that’s the case, I just hope it’s not in front of a billion people!
A.) The priest you are confessing to is acting in the person of Chirst. Meaning, he is sort of stepping in for Jesus, so in a way your confession is only between you and God. Also, the priest is bound by the seal of confession NEVER to tell ANYTHING he hears in a confessional. Even if you confess that you’ve murdered someone, and during trial proceedings the priest is brought in as a witness, he CANNOT tell that you committed the murder.
B.) You only need to confess your mortal sins (the really bad ones), and the veinial sins (the little ones) YOU decide if you want to confess them or not (I always do anyway, it just makes me feel better).
C.) Confessions are only heard in “the box.” The public confessions of the early Church have been done away with looong since.
Confession can be a little scary, but I’ll tell ya, I don’t know how I’d go on without weekly confession! It is SUCH a relief to get all those nasty sins off your soul!
God bless you! I’ll be praying that you do decide come home to Mother Church!
~Irish Catholic