Does Your Parish Recite the Confiteor?

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I have a question about the Confiteor. How come in the missal available in American churches, the version in English does not contain the “Mia Culpa, Mia Culpa, Mia Maxima Culpa”, but the Spanish version does contain it? I am a convert, but I prefer the former version.
 
Mamaw_Carol said:
I have a question about the Confiteor. How come in the missal available in American churches, the version in English does not contain the “Mia Culpa, Mia Culpa, Mia Maxima Culpa”, but the Spanish version does contain it? I am a convert, but I prefer the former version.
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ICEL. That’s the problem. The International Commission on English in the Liturgy.
The English translation is shockingly bad.
 
Never. After all, it’s so demeaning. Who do you think we are, a bunch of sinners?

JSA
 
Yes, most of the time when I attend mass we say the Confietor.

Actually, I think its “weird” when we don’t say it during Sunday mass.

I think its part of confession (as the name implies) to humble ourselves before God and tell him, “yes, I am a sinner.” I also think, that by saying this prayer, that we should be strengthened by the fact that we are not alone.

You know what I mean?
 
Sometimes - during Lent, especially. Other times - seemingly at random.
 
No, we do not. When I go somewhere where it is said, I have to really concentrate to make sure I can remember all the words!
 
Yes.

NO Mass, contemporary sanctuary, Haugen/Haas music, and the Confiteor, too.
 
In my regular parish we’ve said it maybe three times in the last year. At a neighboring parish they say it every mass. Wish I could go there more often.😦

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It varies from week to week at every parish I have attended for many weeks in a row. It often depends on what is planned (often not planned) for the musical arrangements for that weekend. Some weeks I have it, some I do not have it. I do not make it a focus on if it is included.
 
I guess the variation indicates that no one parish or mass is in unison with each other and there are too many options .

I do think the confiteor is needed to confess our sins and faults before God and each other one more time before receiving our Lord, we might have over looked something…

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Yes.

NO Mass, contemporary sanctuary, Haugen/Haas music, and the Confiteor, too.
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Ooh…Häagen-Dazs… that sounds yummy…only in the Church Hall though…wouldn’t be appropriate for Mass. 😉
 
By the way, my post above isn’t a criticism, and I meant to add a wink to it along with the eye-roll. I wish I could attend at TLM chapel myself.

What our parish priest does is completely avoid the Confiteor all together and go into his own words for the Kyrie Eleison. But he always seems to mess it up, trying to think of what he wants to say. It all ends up sounding silly.

Example:

Priest: Lord, you came to call us to repentence because we sometimes go off in the wrong direction, and — and, — and we forget about your love, Lord have mercy.

People: Lord have mercy

Priest: Lord Jesus, we love you and we want you to always be with you, even when we forget to love our neighbor or — or — make the wrong decisions. Lord, — er, I mean, Christ have mercy.

People: Christ have mercy

Priest: Lord, you are a God of love and you just— just love your creation so much, Lord have mercy.

People: Lord have mercy.

I wish I were exaggerating, but it is just about like this.
 
Jakub said:
I guess the variation indicates that no one parish or mass is in unison with each other and there are too many options .
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???

I’m afraid I don’t follow this logic at all.

Why does the fact that there are options and that they are used prove that there are too many options? You must be starting with an assumption that is your opinion rather than something the Church teaches.
I do think the confiteor is needed…
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This is not what the Church teaches. It may be the primary option but it is not needed.
Our parish tends to use the options seasonally. The confiteor is said during Lent. Option three is used during Advent. Option 2 is the most common for other times of the year.
 
We recite it every week, and I don’t think Haagen Daas music is inappropriate at mass, but I think Baskin Robbins, DQ, and Cold Stone are better afterward:D

Occasionally, a substitute priest will use the short version… I remember one who did this… then he shot me a look and said
“Let’s Praise God” so I’d start playing the Gloria instead of the Kyrie.:eek:

Although all 3 options are allowed and none of them are incorrect. I don’t like when attempts are made to shorten the mass by cutting out prayers or readings. I don’t think it should be rushed.
God isn’t in a hurry, he has all eternity.😃
 
Yes, every Mass (although with new pastor coming in soon this may change). I could make do with the troped Kyrie if there weren’t so many options. IIRC there are something like 12 different tropes in the missal, and in addition to these the priest/deacon may use “similar words,” making for one of those annoying stamps of individuality that are so often more distracting than edifying. With so many options, even when the priest reads a trope from the book it can sound like he’s winging it.
 
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