Free tickets! - In a Town near you

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

While talking to my boss, he informed me that he is giving away valuable free tickets to anyone who sincerely wants one.

To collect and redeem the ticket, find a priest in good standing with the Church and ask him to hear confession with a repentant heart and the desire not to sin again.

Each confession is beyond material price and is free from my master, the master, Jesus Christ.

So what is stopping you from claiming your priceless ticket and confessing away your sins?

Confessions are now being held in a town near you.

Hurry and get yours now. Go now and go regularly. You will feel much better afterwards.

 

[St.Eric]

T.A.Stobie:

While talking to my boss, he informed me that he is giving away valuable free tickets to anyone who sincerely wants one.

To collect and redeem the ticket, find a priest in good standing with the Church and ask him to hear confession with a repentant heart and the desire not to sin again.

Each confession is beyond material price and is free from my master, the master, Jesus Christ.

So what is stopping you from claiming your priceless ticket and confessing away your sins?

Confessions are now being held in a town near you.

Hurry and get yours now. Go now and go regularly. You will feel much better afterwards.

I get a ticket about every 2 weeks. The vast majority of the time it is a devotional confession as I have no grave matters to confess. however, the devotional confession helps the grace of God increase and keep me in check!

 

[LilyM]

Me too - front row centre every week

Mind you I have some rather serious venial imperfections to work on …

 

[Toni]

LilyM:

Me too - front row centre every week

Mind you I have some rather serious venial imperfections to work on …

Good for you don’t we all. Usually I go every two weeks but lately I have gone weekly.

 

[Flopfoot]

I always go at least twice a year, once in Advent once in Lent. since Lent isn’t that long after Advent, normally any sins I want to confess after advent I just wait until Lent (unless it is a mortal sin) - so that’s what I’ve done this year, not been all year so far but I’ll go soon. After Easter though it is a long way to Advent so if I have some sins I want to confess I might go in July or August, and then after that wait till Advent again.

 

[John-the-Seeker]

Flopfoot:

I always go at least twice a year, once in Advent once in Lent. since Lent isn’t that long after Advent, normally any sins I want to confess after advent I just wait until Lent (unless it is a mortal sin) - so that’s what I’ve done this year, not been all year so far but I’ll go soon. After Easter though it is a long way to Advent so if I have some sins I want to confess I might go in July or August, and then after that wait till Advent again.

I am sorry but curious. If you wash your spiritual body twice maybe three times a year, and its free, how often do you wash your physical body when you have to pay for soap and water?
Please do not answer, the question is only rhetorical.

 

[Mordocai]

i think john the seeker makes a good point (although a bit clumsily )

i was in rcia the other week (im a sponsor) and this older lady (we were talkin bout confession) had the audacity to say (completely serious too) “well most of us arent big sinners, so we dont have to confess anything right?” and the priest, had to answer that, yes, TECHNICALLY, you dont HAVE to confess if you have no mortal sin.
i just wanted to slap her lol sorry, but it completely scandalized the people soon to be received into the church “you dont gotta confess if you dont have anything serious to confess”
hellO??? confession isnt just “o i screwed up big time, fix it for me fr.” it’s loving Jesus enough to accept His gift of mercy. often. He wants to give us the grace MUCH more than we want to receive it. reminds me of when Jesus said ‘if you love me, keep my commandments’ meaning, do as i say, do my will.
and it is God’s will that He wants us to approach His unending mercy!
but yeah this lady…
i wanted to stand up and say “sorry folks, but thats not roman catholic teaching at all. the Church actually strongly encourages frequent confession. its a church of sinners, not a church of ‘well i dont gotta’ confessors.” twice a year, while excellent and a far cry better than never going, could do much more benefit to the state of the soul if you go more often. actually one of the graces of frequent confession is the extreme grace of stength at not repeating the same sins.
which reminds me…i really oughta listen to my own advice and start goin bi-weekly lol i usually work saturdays though…but still i could set up an appointment right?
man now i got myself all riled up lol
it just really made me upset… o well…
anyway, long story short. far be it from me to tell you how often to confess, but i think you’ll agree that Christ’s mercy is always waiting for us.

God Bless!
Mordocai

 

[Flopfoot]

Mordocai, as you admit, this lady is technically correct, which means that what she’s saying isn’t a scandal.
We need to teach both sides of anything that’s gotta be balanced, if you know what I mean - we should teach both that going to confession often is good, but that you don’t strictly have to go if you only commit venial sins.

John, my parents pay for the soap and water… hmm, I guess I ought to be more considerate since someone else is paying for it actually (-:
The cost of showering is probably approximately similar to the cost of driving to the church for confession, although it’s not too far to walk I suppose, in which case it would be free. The harder bit is trying to wake up by 9am on a Saturday…
Anyway, it’s not a matter of cost as to why I tend to go only about 3 times a year. It’s more that I want to have a few things to say when I get there (seems to be almost like wasting the priests time if I go there and say, I came here last week and I haven’t really done any sins worth mentioning since then, but I wanted to come anyway). I find that if I go when I ‘really need to’, I remember the confession better and often will take a gem of advice from the priest that I remember for years. But when I go ‘just because it is there’ I don’t really take much from it.

 

[John-the-Seeker]

I apologize for my ‘bathing remarks’ and thank one and all for the good nature with which they handled my bad manners. The real point I shouild have been stressing is that a frequent, good and prayerful examination of conscience where we invite the Holy Spirit to make us aware of our sins enables us to become more attuned to the Holy Spirit’s ‘voice’ and more attuned to our sinfulness. It is said a just man sins seven times a day and very few men were identified as just, so where does that leave the rest of us? Greater and more prolific sinners than we usally realize! Frequent confession reveals these sins. The closer we approach sainthood the more frequent is the need for confession even as the sin total diminishes. Ask Jesus each day to make you a saint and spend some time meditating on how Jesus looked today, through your presentation of Him to the world, in your thoughts, words and actions.