Has anyone had this problem?

[Gregory_I]

I once went to confession and confessed all those horrible “manly” sins, you know the ones guys, anyway, I walk out and this lady is SMILING at me, and says “THat’s how to make a good confession!” I was shell shocked. How do you respond to THAT? lol.

 

[Shin]

I once went to confession and confessed all those horrible “manly” sins, you know the ones guys, anyway, I walk out and this lady is SMILING at me, and says “THat’s how to make a good confession!” I was shell shocked. How do you respond to THAT? lol.

Well Gregory, you took it like a man!

If it’s any consolation, I suspect our sins tend to be public knowledge in the next life in any case, so it’s all out there. . .

Of course I know quite a few who would understandably flip at the thought. Solution? Stop sinning.

God’s mercy is to His glory…

 

[Maureen1125]

I once went to confession and confessed all those horrible “manly” sins, you know the ones guys, anyway, I walk out and this lady is SMILING at me, and says “THat’s how to make a good confession!” I was shell shocked. How do you respond to THAT? lol.

WOW!! Just WOW!! That trully blows my mind, that someone would be so tactless as to say such a thing.

You could always have offered to hang around and make sure that she got hers right?

 

[Gregory_I]

Has anyone else ever noticed that although it’s embarassing as heck to have your faults noticed and pointed out by strangers there is something…liberating? It’s maybe not the right word, but something changes. Or at least seems to. It feels good to not be able to hide once you get over the initial panic and blowout.

 

[odile53]

A couple of churches I had belonged to had the old box-style confessions with doors and acoustical tile lining the booths. The wall between the priest and penitent had an opening with a movable shutter, to keep the priest’s comments to the penitent on the other side of the booth away from the person who is waiting to start confessing. One of the two churches had barrier ropes (like those in banks or theaters) to keep those who were waiting back several feet.
the other church had one “box” designated for the hard of hearing. That one had a phone handset that the person could adjust the volume.
Seriously, though: If someone wanted to eavesdrop on my confession, they’d be bored to death. Same old stupid stuff that God hasn’t seen fit to relieve me of as of yet. I’ve actually heard Father yawn a couple of times.

 

[benedictus2]

Has anyone else ever noticed that although it’s embarassing as heck to have your faults noticed and pointed out by strangers there is something…liberating? It’s maybe not the right word, but something changes. Or at least seems to. It feels good to not be able to hide once you get over the initial panic and blowout.

I think the need to come clean is wired into our being. Sins are meant to be confessed and when we don’t it festers.

We were created for truth. Confession is truth telling.

 

[Shin]

Same old stupid stuff that God hasn’t seen fit to relieve me of as of yet. I’ve actually heard Father yawn a couple of times.

‘Many desire to become saints,
but wish that God would do all,
and that He would bring them to eternal glory
without labour or inconvenience to them.
But this is impossible. …
Sometimes, to carry this yoke, and merit everlasting happiness,
we must do violence to the feelings of flesh and blood.’

‘The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.’
(Mt. 11:12.)

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