Humorous Confessions

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Have you ever said something that caused the priest in the confession booth/room to laugh aloud? It happened once to me when I mentioned disobedience against parents. He thought that was non-issue since almost everyone at my age is disobedient. How about you? Have you ever used alliteration, puns, etc. in either a concious or unconcious manner to elicit a laught from the priest?

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Im kind of an old soul and once i was at confession as a child and gave a VERY full confession, mentioning things that a child would not typically know to be wrong. the priest chuckled a bit because it was “very honest.”
 
I have gotten a couple chuckles because of some things I’ve confessed which weren’t a sin so the priest kinda chuckled and explained it to me.

Matt
 
I answered no, but not because of the priest being stern. Our pastor is wise enough to know that a laugh or even a chuckle can have unpredictable effects on someone’s feelings and, depending on one’s faith, even on one’s soul. This is particularly true when the confession is not face to face.

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I’ve actually had 2 priests chuckle in the confessional.

Once when I was really working on coming clean of past offenses…I actually had lied to a priest in the confessional when I was a teen and it was really bothering me. It was not a huge matter and I think Fr. chuckled before he realized he was doing so. He did give me some sound advice afterwards but he didn’t consider the trangression to be so big. (He probably thought it was “cute” that someone would bring up something so old)

The second was a couple weeks ago, and it was face to face. Within the context of the confession and discussion he kind of laughed at what I was getting at but told me where the sin was and explained to me where I had erred.

In both occasions, I was actually very much comforted by their laughter and did not have the sense that they were laughing at me at all.

The first priest is now my SD, and he does his best to not even smile when we are talking about a serious issue so as to not appear to be laughing. For example, when I first met with him and was relating an incident which had brought me to him, he sat as he customarily does in face-to-face confessions: with his hand over his mouth, making eye contact if appropriate, etc I noticed during our conversation that the corner of his mouth was at first twitching and he couldn’t quite hide a smile. He was afraid he was going to offend or distract me so I have to give the poor priest credit!

For the record, I would not have been offended but he likely did not know that at the time.

I have yet to send a priest into gales of laughter in the confessional, though, and for that I’m grateful. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time, though. :o

I think some priests in their experince are able to let go a little as in their experience they learn to discern what someone needs at a given time. Sometimes a little chuckle is just what is needed.
 
Yes, it always had to do with something that was natural and not a sin or the way the Confession had been phrased. I have seen individuals come out of Confession laughing becasue of the priest’s comments. Not sure how that happened. Thanks and God Bless.
 
My priest is very wise, stern, and orthodox. He is very reverent in the Confessional.

Although, on Divine Mercy Sunday I sat on the edge of the kneeler and sent it flipping into the air. He gave a very deep “GARUMPH!” as though he was trying to hold in a laugh.
 
My priest has laughed out loud too. He does it all the time, I actually found it to be comforting as well, like everything isn’t so serious and I can relax. Actually, whenever he talks he sounds like something is amusing him (except when he is saying mass or talking about something really serious) so maybe he’s just a happy guy. 🙂
 
Thirty years ago there was a brand new priest hearing confessions for the first time. His first confessor was a murderer who said "Bless me father for I have sinned. I murdered…"but before the sinner finished saying murdered the young priest ran out of the confessional in fear. The murderer handed himself over to the police and served his 30 years in jail. When he got out of jail he thought he had better go to confession because when he went 30 years ago he never received absolution. Well, it just so happened that the priest in the confessional was the same priest who ran out 30 years ago. This time the sinner said, “bless me father for I have sinned. My last confession was 30 years ago. I murdered.” The priest this time didn’t seem impressed and yawned as he automatically said …“And how many times?”
 
The priest should have been excumunicated for breaking the sacramental seal of confession 30 years ago.
 
How did he break the seal 30 years ago? The guy turned himself in. :confused:
 
The priest at my parish has me all figured out. 😃 Sure he laughs. I almost always laugh at myself anyway. I don’t think the visiting priests have ever laughed. It probably depends on what they think the penitent needs to hear.
 
Sir Knight:
The priest should have been excumunicated for breaking the sacramental seal of confession 30 years ago.
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I have no quarrel with you, Sir Knight, but…I think that story was a joke. :confused:
 
It’s not that my priests are stern, but, they know that my sins are serious & I am Hellbound if I DON’T confess all that I can. I have confessed disobediance to my parent’s many times. I mean, it IS a sin…Ten Commandments!! It’s serious & shouldn’t be laughed about. No, my priests aren’t stern, but, they ARE very understanding.
 
I had a regular confessor who wouldn’t normally laugh during confession, but usually afterward while giving a bit of advice he would end up laughing about whatever situation I had told him about. It was amazing, no matter what it was, he would treat it so lightly and just laugh it off, whether it was a serious sin or not a sin at all. I think he just believes so strongly in the absolute powerlessness of evil that he can laugh in it’s face. I found it very comforting. Once he did laugh during the confession though - I confessed gluttony and proceded to list everything I ate at one time…probably gave too much info. He couldn’t believe that a person could eat that much and he had to laugh and stop me for a second while he recovered. I was surprised, I mean, I could have had an eating disorder and that would have had a very adverse effect. But I was fine, and actually never eaten that much again since I can see how silly it was.
 
My mother in law, when she was nine, she admitted to committing adultery in her confession. Her priest then just laughed and told that he really didn’t think she did. After a couple of exchanges and a good explanation of what adultery is, she confessed to lying. 😃
 
After hearing the confessions of all the 4th grade CCD class, this very sweet old priest, who seemed so stern and serious at first, suggested that we not use the reading of the adulterous woman as part of the penance service. He said most of the class was guilty of adultery. He looked on the verge of laughter.

I had a priest cut the cheese during a face to face confession once. Thank goodness I know him well enough to joke about it. It’s pretty hard to take the rest of the confession seriously after that.
 
It was about 1948. The second grade teacher was a really (really) old nun with a sour temper, Sister Mary Annunciata. One day, when the class was acting up particularly badly, she shouted at them: “You children are going to be the death of me! And if I die, my death is going to be on your heads!”

Sure enough, that night, a Friday, Sister had a heart attack and went to her eternal reward. The next day, 27 second-graders were in line at confession. After about the sixth kid came out of the booth, the priest came out and said, “If anybody else is here to confess that you killed Sister Mary Annunciata, you can go home! It’s NOT your fault!”
 
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