I'm ABSOLVED!

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Just a happy update: Boy do I feel light as a feather. I went to confession, it was gut wrenching and cleansing! I feel great! Boy oh boy, do I feel great. LOL, I feel great! What a relief. 🙂
 
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What a relief. 🙂
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Plop, plop, fizz fizz…forget Chicken Soup, it’s like Alka-seltzer for the soul! 👍

God Bless

-ACEGC
 
I feel great!!! Boy oh boy, I feel so much better. Thank you Lord Jesus!

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There’s just nothing like a sacramental confession! It’s like the Eucharist. It brings God into an earthly reality that is more than just a thought or feeling. It makes it something a person can hold in their hand. You hear the words of absolution in such a concrete way. It fulfills our needs in a very human way. The Church knows exactly what we need. It’s food for the soul that’s so nourishing.

There’s no doubt. I was so thankful and relieved. I just said, “I need absolution!” And I got it!!! 🙂 Thank you Jesus!
 
The Lord blest me with the gift of absolution today as well! Yay for our Beloved!
Josh
 
My middle son and I both recieved absolution through the Sacrament of Reconciliation today, also! Whoo-hoo! Had some issues that were burdening my mind, and the priest reassured me that because he saw the regret in my face (it was a face-to-face confession), he could see how sorry I was…it felt like a new beginning for me!

Congrats, spiritblows! We’re joining the “Absolution Club” today!!! 😃
 
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Just a happy update: Boy do I feel light as a feather. I went to confession, it was gut wrenching and cleansing! I feel great! Boy oh boy, do I feel great. LOL, I feel great! What a relief. 🙂
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What a feeling hearing those words, they’ve dried the dew from my forehead many times.
Yes I have perspired in the Confession box 😦 but hearing those words, what a gift, I feel sorry for some, they don’t know what they’re missing. :gopray2:
 
Yes, it’s weird that people will pay a psychiatrist a small fortune, but will avoid and fear a free gift such as confession to a priest. I mean, what a bargain. It’s worth years of psychotherapy and then some.

Confession is all about taking individual responsibilty before God. It’s so powerful and helpful to us. I don’t think a general confession really has the same benefits to us. Really, I think it’s a shame that it’s not used more. Hopefully the next crop of priests will revive it’s use.
 
Servus Pio XII:
Perhaps a “we love confession” club is in order.
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Dear Servus,
Why don’t you start one? I’ll join. Confession is a good treatment for a chronic disease, which is recurrent sin. It’s medicine for the mind, soul, and spirit.

It’s weird how people these days are so unreserved, will go on TV and blab their dirty underwear, feel the need to vent at the drop of a hat, but are totally uncomfortable in confessing sacramentally. They’ll pay $100 to a psychologist, but won’t take a freebie from Christ and his Church.
 
I’m going to go back to this confessor again, btw. For one thing, I was way more uninhibited with a priest that I’m not familiar with. Secondly, he was good and compassionate. Also, I can make a mental health day of it with a spiritual purpose, go to the big city and go to their Mass afterwards, then out to dinner by myself. I need that too.
 
Aren’t we all absolved at confession? I am confused by the terms “sacramental confession” versus “general confession” that were used above. What’s the difference?

Steve
 
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Aren’t we all absolved at confession? I am confused by the terms “sacramental confession” versus “general confession” that were used above. What’s the difference?

Steve
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I mean, going to individual confession in a confessional as opposed to a Protestant confession in the form of telling God ‘directly’. And also, as opposed to the general confession before Mass. Maybe my terminology isn’t quite right, but that’s what I meant.
 
Dear Servus,
Why don’t you start one? I’ll join. Confession is a good treatment for a chronic disease, which is recurrent sin. It’s medicine for the mind, soul, and spirit.
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It’s weird how people these days are so unreserved, will go on TV and blab their dirty underwear, feel the need to vent at the drop of a hat, but are totally uncomfortable in confessing sacramentally. They’ll pay $100 to a psychologist, but won’t take a freebie from Christ and his Church.
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I was actually serious. You know, like the Book Club, and the other recognised groups which run about CA Forums. Perhaps something like that could be started.
 
Servus Pio XII:
I was actually serious. You know, like the Book Club, and the other recognised groups which run about CA Forums. Perhaps something like that could be started.
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Hmmm, I wonder if there would be enough interest? How would you go about that? Also, confession is pretty private.
 
OK. I know exactly what you mean. There’s a feeling of euphoria that the other religions will never understand unless they go through it themselves. A wonderful thing.

Steve
 
Confession is one of the most-misunderstood things in our religion. It is so often feared, but in every case of firends who eventually avail themselves, it becomes the greatest thing in their life. The burden’s are gone. It is truly a gift we are blessed to have.
 
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I mean, going to individual confession in a confessional as opposed to a Protestant confession in the form of telling God ‘directly’. And also, as opposed to the general confession before Mass. Maybe my terminology isn’t quite right, but that’s what I meant.
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The term “general confession” used to mean a confession of the sins of one’s entire life. With the arrival of services where people received “general absolution” (nearly always an abuse), the confusion arose with the protestant term “general” confession, which descibes the non-specific communal declaration "we are all sinners . . . " followed by an attempt at “absolution.”
 
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