How often does your parish offer confession?

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Yikes. My sins start piling up in a few weeks even when they’re just venial. Going months without confession is asking for trouble.
 
Yes I’m in need already and have to wait until Saturday now. Not good a I can’t fast or anything this week as it’s all pointless/fruitless.
 
Daily Mon-Thurs with 20 minutes after Mass (or longer if need be, though usually there isn’t many people at daily Mass), twice on Fridays (p.m. for 1 hour) and Saturdays am (3/4 hour before Mass & pm half an hour), and once on Sundays (varies but about an hour - until no more people wish to receive the Sacrament).
 
Priests are always in my prayers when I do my nightly prayers. We definitely need many more young men to become Priests.
 
That’s sad. Priests should be glad when people are coming to confession. It’s showing they are thinking about God and where they are going to spend eternity. The Sacrament of Penance is one of the most important things there is in the Catholic Church.
 
You think the Priest would have brought that up in Mass at some point addressing how nobody is coming to confession and how vital it is for us to be saved.
 
Have you called and asked for an appointment earlier than Saturday? Honestly, I have never known a priest to refuse to schedule confession.

Fasting is never pointless. Fasting helps to keep our appetites under submission to our will.
 
An hour scheduled, 6 days a week. The weekday evening confession is followed by mass. Priests will often, but not always, go back to the confessional after mass if there was a remainingline before mass.

Other close parish, 4 days a week, an hour each day but they go until line is empty.

Another close parish, 3 days a week, hour each day, also will go until line is empty.

Within 15 minute drive, I have 13 times during the week. Now that I think about it, only about an hour or so overlap.
 
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You think the Priest would have brought that up in Mass at some point addressing how nobody is coming to confession and how vital it is for us to be saved.
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I honestly thought that since his sermons were always about how God loves us and forgives us everything we do, with absolutely no mention of the need for repentance and confession that it wasn’t surprising that nobody went to confession. Why should they, when God had already forgiven everything they did?
 
My current priest also runs a church in a different town. If praying in mortal sin isn’t meritorious then surely fasting is the same?
 
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You need to make an appointment… It usually takes 2 or 3 weeks for them to give you an appointment in 2 or 3 months… So I tend to keep a list…
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I would suggest contacting the Vicar of Clergy. This is not acceptable, depriving people of the Sacraments for weeks and months.
 
I honestly don’t know what the precise cause was, but I know it was a deanery-wide change. We have some newer priests and it just seems people have, on the whole, become more vocal/visible about wanting to practice their faith and be boldly Catholic in recent years. (Not saying those before didn’t, but there’s been an uptick in adoration, rosary groups, Bible studies, even Eucharistic processions that weren’t common before.)
 
An hour before each daily mass Monday, Wednesday - Saturday and then 2-4 PM Saturday.
 
Surprised they don’t ask what insurance you plan on using. 😆
 
Well I’ll be honest, I don’t really have a particular parish, I mostly just sort of go to whichever one works into my schedule the best that weekend (I live in a fairly big city so there’s a lot of choices). But of the ones I frequent most:

Parish #1: 45 minutes prior to every Sunday mass and 30 minutes prior to every weekday mass. Now, this is a church that primarily serves the University students, so their mass schedule varies based on that. For most of the year their mass schedule is two every weekday, one on Saturday, and five on Sunday, but during winter and summer break (which combined I think comprises about 4 months) there instead is two masses on Sunday and one mass each other day.

Parish #2: 1 hour Saturday morning, 30 minutes Saturday evening. There are two separate confession times on Sunday, both half an hour.

Parish #3: Confession time is on Thursday evening only. There isn’t really a set stop time, just a start time and then I think it just goes until there isn’t anyone left to confess.

Parish #4: 55 minutes on Saturday, 45 on Sunday.

Parish #5: This has confession available for 45 minutes before its Sunday and Saturday Vigil masses (it one Vigil mass and three Sunday masses) in addition to having confession times on three weekdays and Saturday morning. Those don’t really have a timeframe, just a stated time, so I assume it’s of the “the priest just waits until everyone who shows up has done it” type of things.
 
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Same here. “Official” parish is 45 minutes on Saturday. And usually you have to look around to find the priest because he’s used to no customers and is busy preparing for Mass.

The FSSP parish 15 minutes away offers confession every morning for half hour before Mass (Mon-Sat) and before each of the two Sunday Masses.
 
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