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Iggy85
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When should one in RCIA go to their first confession?
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ExGratia
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Well, in RCIA at my parish, you go as a group at some point before Easter. That is, people making their Confirmation. For the unbaptized, you don’t go to confession during RCIA. All of your sins plus original sin are wiped away at Easter vigil when you are baptized!
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SuscipeMeDomine
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Are you baptized or unbaptized?
Someone who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil will go to confession for the first time sometime after that. The period of mystagogy is a good time frame.
Someone who is already baptized will go to confession for the first time before they receive their sacraments of confirmation and communion and after receiving preparation for confession.
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Iggy85
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I am baptized.
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SuscipeMeDomine
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Then confession would come sometime before your confirmation and communion. Check with your RCIA team to see what they have planned. Depending on the size of the group there may be a communal reconciliation service planned or you may make individual arrangements.
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ruth0903
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Hello, I am a candidate in RCIA, to be confirmed on Sunday, March 25th, and I had my first Reconciliation last Thursday evening. What a blessing it was to participate in!
May God bless you
Ruth
May God bless you
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icamay
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My understanding is that this is up to your parish. If you are to do first confession as a group, you should have a date scheduled for that already. Our RCIA class was instructed to do our first confession on our own sometime before Good Friday. It’s a good question to ask in your next class.
Just a side note: I did mine yesterday and brought a (generic) list - I felt a little foolish, but once you let the priest know that it’s your first confession and you are enrolled in RCIA, they are very helpful. I went to our co-cathredal rather than our small parish for my first reconciliation, as it was a little more comforting to be anonymous. I also knew that the co-cathredal has the ability to have numerous confessionals going at once, so I didn’t feel like I’d be holding up others too much. I tried to just get through and be done, but the priest was very conversational and interested in counseling me on some family problems that have been weighing on my mind. Also, I opted to confess facing him, which oddly enough felt better to me than sitting on the other side of the wall. Very therapeutic, not at all as frightening as I had made it in my head!
Just a side note: I did mine yesterday and brought a (generic) list - I felt a little foolish, but once you let the priest know that it’s your first confession and you are enrolled in RCIA, they are very helpful. I went to our co-cathredal rather than our small parish for my first reconciliation, as it was a little more comforting to be anonymous. I also knew that the co-cathredal has the ability to have numerous confessionals going at once, so I didn’t feel like I’d be holding up others too much. I tried to just get through and be done, but the priest was very conversational and interested in counseling me on some family problems that have been weighing on my mind. Also, I opted to confess facing him, which oddly enough felt better to me than sitting on the other side of the wall. Very therapeutic, not at all as frightening as I had made it in my head!
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