How Often Do You Go To Confession?

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netmil(name removed by moderator):
What if one has nothing to say?
I went to confession after 20 years of Communal Confession and touched on the biggies that I could remember. Now I would like to go more often but can’t come up with anything to say.
I am not perfect by any means but I’m not sure.
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Netmil(name removed by moderator),

Those lists are quite helpful to give you something to mention in confession. With a really long list, you’re sure to find something.🙂 If your mind goes blank in confession, you could also write one or two down on a piece of paper to remind yourself in the confessional. Throw it away when you’re done!

Of course, if you’re slightly intemperate, like me, you’ll always have the standby of having lost your temper with some person or another.:o

If you go more often, you can start to see little trends in your life. That’s partly how I figured out I’m intemperate.
 
I go to confession whenever I’m afraid I’ve committed a mortal sin – which, unfortunately, is every week or two.
 
My goal is weekly but due to schedule conflicts it can be 2 - 4 weeks between visits.

Pope JP II goes to confession daily.
 
I went to confession today but the priest wouldnt let me because I went yesterday!!!

He told me to see the one priest and only do it once a month, and it would make you a RELIGIOUS CRANK??? I was like WHAT!!! because another priest told me to confess everyday day if its possible.

What if I die tomorrow without confessing it? HEHE 🙂
 
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DEESYPAL:
He told me to see the one priest and only do it once a month
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You are free to go to whichever priest you wish for confession. This is a canon law, but I am too lazy to look it up. You can go to another rite priest if you want, too.
 
Every other Monday at 9 AM. Or it will not happen for me.

If you do not have anything major, confess a venial sin or fault with true contrition, sadness and firm purpose of amendment. Not 12 venial sins, hard to be sorry for all 12!

To me, bi-weekly keeps me in good check, I always have something to say, it is by appointment with the same priest. It also helps me grow in the life of grace by eradicating faults the weeks I am graced to be free of mortal sins.
 
Go every six to eight weeks.
I certainly could go more often with confession so readily available at our parish. 1/2 before every Mass (and there is always at least 3 daily Masses) and 2 hours on Saturday.
 
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Netmil(name removed by moderator),

Those lists are quite helpful to give you something to mention in confession. With a really long list, you’re sure to find something.🙂 If your mind goes blank in confession, you could also write one or two down on a piece of paper to remind yourself in the confessional. Throw it away when you’re done!

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I usually make a list. There’s nothing worse than remembering later on something I meant to confess.

Last month my 3 year old was playing in my purse before I left to go to confession. When I got to church, the list was not in the purse! I knew my son had probably removed it and left it lying, probably somewhere obvious like the kitchen table. Be careful with your list! I later found it in my car, but how embarassing if my husband, son, or daughter had found it. They’d have known what it was.
 
Prolly about 2 times a month; unless, it is during an election cycle and I happen to catch a speech by any Kennedy. Then, I have to go daily.
 
I just came back from confession and I was, as usual, stuck by the empty pews. It’s no wonder they only offer Reconciliation every other week! In this particular Upstate New York area, if you want to be able to count on a priest being in the confessional when it’s scheduled, there are two churches out of six that I will go to. They’re both quite a drive but it’s better than walking in to an empty church and finding an empty confessional.

Where have all the sinners gone? :o
 
If you build it, they will come.

Isn’t that what Hollywood says? At our parish, when we got a new pastor he changed the confession schedule. We have it on 4 days of the week instead of just the usual before sat mass. Guess what? It isn’t a wasteland, and people are there for those extra times!

I do sometimes wonder how many more we are pulling in, but there are clearly more. We have also had those come to confession homilies to encourage people. Also, they announce every week at the end of mass when you can come. Go, go, go FatherX! (I liked the old pastor a lot, too.)
 
I like going once a week, simply because it helps me reflect on what I did during that particular week better.
 
I go once a week, occasionally I miss a week. My parish has it everyday which is good. If I commit a mortal sin I go the very next day regardless of when I last went.
 
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lovelavender:
I usually make a list. There’s nothing worse than remembering later on something I meant to confess.

Last month my 3 year old was playing in my purse before I left to go to confession. When I got to church, the list was not in the purse! I knew my son had probably removed it and left it lying, probably somewhere obvious like the kitchen table. Be careful with your list! I later found it in my car, but how embarassing if my husband, son, or daughter had found it. They’d have known what it was.
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:rotfl:I make a list too! But I’ve gotten to the point where I can use abbreviations for my most common sins, so even if someone finds it, it won’t mean anything.

The problem is, if I’m committing a sin so often that I can abbreviate it, that means I’m guilty of it waaaaayyyy too much.

“O God, be merciful to me a sinner.” :gopray:
 
I also try to hit First Saturday’s and then once in between if I have some sin that troubles me, which is often.

CARose
 
When ever I get the chance. Which is very sporadic. Sometimes once a month sometimes sooner.

Peace,
Jen
 
Tonight I went to confession, but it was not as fulfilling as it usually is. The priest seem to be rushing people through, and, although I am a fast confessor, I could not get the last part of my confession out before the priest gave the penance and absolution.

This actually should not of supprised me since this priest seems to rush through some of parts of the Mass.

Although I know it was a good confession since I was about to confess the last part, I am debating whether to go back on Saturday (and face the mad rush of Lenten procrastinators) and confess that last part. I know it is not necessary, but it may ease my consious.

PF
 
I try to go to confesion every week. I get out of work at 7 A.M. and a nearby parish has mass at 7:30 A.M. and the real nice thing is that they have confession every day 15 minutes before EVERY mass, which make it very easy to go every week. The pastor, at this parish, is also very suportive of weekly confession.
 
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