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slewi
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Ok. I have no idea what happened in confession today.
We have several Catholic churches in a 10 mile radius where I live, and I have all of their confession schedules so that I know where I can go at any given time on Saturday.
I went to a church I have only been to a wedding to before today.
When I got into the box, I waited for a moment, then Father opened my side, and I waited for him to say his opening, but he didn’t. So I started with “Bless me father…”
So I went on to make my confession. Now, I was told that two things I know to be mortal sins were NOT mortal sins. Something is only a mortal sin if you intend to harm another! When I questioned him on it, he told me to stop thinking of sins as having categories, mortal and venial!
We went on to have a nice talk, he is a very nice man, but then at the end, he didn’t ask me to say the Act of contrition, nor did he give me a penance! He then told me he enjoyed talking to me…I am still pretty speechless…He did give me absolution I think. I was kind of shocked and didn’t pay attention to what he was saying.
I came out of the box and was kind of dazed. I looked around abit, then went right to a pew and did my own penance!
Well, God knows I confessed my sins, what the priest did or didn’t do hopefully has no effect on it. I should probably write everything down and send a letter to the Bishop…Man I’m having a bad week…
Steve
We have several Catholic churches in a 10 mile radius where I live, and I have all of their confession schedules so that I know where I can go at any given time on Saturday.
I went to a church I have only been to a wedding to before today.
When I got into the box, I waited for a moment, then Father opened my side, and I waited for him to say his opening, but he didn’t. So I started with “Bless me father…”
So I went on to make my confession. Now, I was told that two things I know to be mortal sins were NOT mortal sins. Something is only a mortal sin if you intend to harm another! When I questioned him on it, he told me to stop thinking of sins as having categories, mortal and venial!
We went on to have a nice talk, he is a very nice man, but then at the end, he didn’t ask me to say the Act of contrition, nor did he give me a penance! He then told me he enjoyed talking to me…I am still pretty speechless…He did give me absolution I think. I was kind of shocked and didn’t pay attention to what he was saying.
I came out of the box and was kind of dazed. I looked around abit, then went right to a pew and did my own penance!
Well, God knows I confessed my sins, what the priest did or didn’t do hopefully has no effect on it. I should probably write everything down and send a letter to the Bishop…Man I’m having a bad week…
Steve