Confessional or Confession room?

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Just curious about other people’s preferences and why 🙂

When you go to Confession, do you prefer the confessional or a confession room, and why?

I am aware of a similar question on the Forums, but it is not quite the same. This one is not about anonymity.
 
That’s exactly what it’s about for a lot of people, though. If you don’t ask from the point of view of anonymity, then what **is **it about?

It. Doesn’t. Matter. To me, anyway.
 
UpUpAndAway said:
That’s exactly what it’s about for a lot of people, though. If you don’t ask from the point of view of anonymity, then what **is **it about?

It. Doesn’t. Matter. To me, anyway.
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Let me explain 🙂

You can have a screen in a confessional room as well, making it anonymous. So it people had the choice between the two, which would they choose?
 
Thanks for the clarification 🙂 In that case…

…It. Still. Doesn’t. Matter. 😃
 
I usually prefer the confessional, but if theres none available and I really need to go to Confession, it doesn’t matter to me. 😉
 
I prefer my parish’s confession room (which has a screen). The confessional is cramped and has spiders. Given the choice, why wouldn’t I choose the open, spider-free room?
 
I said doesn’t matter, why should it matter where you confess your sins. As long as you don’t have a place where everyone can here you it doesn’t matter.
 
CutlerB said:
Let me explain 🙂

You can have a screen in a confessional room as well, making it anonymous. So it people had the choice between the two, which would they choose?
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many confessional rooms have screens.
 
When I was growing up in the 1970s, we had a priest who would literally hear confessions anytime, anywhere. If you ran into him at the grocery store and tell him “Father, I need to confess,” he’d pull out his stole out of his pocket, find a corner where there would be some semblance of privacy and hear your confession. Short lines would form in the middle of HEB.

So honestly, I don’t care. I prefer the confessional, but I can confess anywhere. In a box or next to the lox but not with a fox (ok…I live in South Texas, we don’t have lox, but I wanted to make Dr. Seuss rhyme.)
 
Gia_B said:
I prefer my parish’s confession room (which has a screen). The confessional is cramped and has spiders. Given the choice, why wouldn’t I choose the open, spider-free room?
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I usually confess face to face and a large room lets me kneel when I say the act of contrition and receive absolution.

-Tim-
 
How about kneeling at the altar, facing the priest during a reconciliation rite before Easter?
Been there…done that! 👍

Mike 😉
 
catholictiger said:
many confessional rooms have screens.
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I know, that’s the point!

If the anonymity is present in both cases, the question I asked was: What’s your preference? Preference. Not that it matters where one confesses, but simply what people like more, if they do.
 
Mikeydell said:
How about kneeling at the altar, facing the priest during a reconciliation rite before Easter?
Been there…done that!
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How would that be done with the opportunity to confess your sins individually? Occasionally, priests will give a general absolution, but they are invalid if you participate in them intentionally unless there is a serious need for it.
 
In answer to your question the priest sits with his side to you as you kneel and make a valid confession. The only things lacking are a confessional box and a screen. After confessing he will talk to you face to face, give you absolution and tell you your pennance. 👍

Mike 🙂
 
CutlerB said:
If the anonymity is present in both cases, the question I asked was: What’s your preference? Preference. Not that it matters where one confesses, but simply what people like more, if they do.
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If I have a choice of anonymity or not, I have no preference as to room or confessional.
 
CutlerB said:
Let me explain 🙂

You can have a screen in a confessional room as well, making it anonymous. So it people had the choice between the two, which would they choose?
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Not always. In my Church there is no screen in the confessional room. And I know of other churches that don’t have screens in these rooms. :rolleyes:
 
Moonbug said:
Not always. In my Church there is no screen in the confessional room. And I know of other churches that don’t have screens in these rooms. :rolleyes:
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I know churches that have screens but the holes in the screens are so big that the priest can see you. 😃
 
I like the confessionals for the same reasons I prefer Churches built before 1920s… because they are just simply cool. 😃

But if I need to confess in a room, I will.

NOTE: I actually was put off my the room for many years due to my first confession as a child because of the face to face confession. But today, I don’t really care. But confessionals are the coolest! 😃
 
Zekariya said:
I know churches that have screens but the holes in the screens are so big that the priest can see you. 😃
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Another reason why I would guide my family to use a confessional is that it is not unheard of that unscrupulous priests will use the confessional to find people they can approach sexually. Before Vatican II There was a written canon that a bishop must receive three complaints from parishioners of sexual propositioning in the confessional before he could remove the priest. [edited]
 
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