It is said at every Vigil and Sunday Mass at the parishes in our town, as well as back home where I’m from–I guess I thought it was just a part of the Mass.
We say it just about every Sunday in our parish. I really like it because it allows us to acknowledge that we are sinners in need of Christ’s forgiveness.
In my parish, in the 4 years I have been here I have not heard the Confiteor once. Not in Sunday mass, daily mass, weddings or funerals, first communion or confirmation. Except for the Sundays from Easter to Pentecost this year, where we had the “sprinkling” and then the Gloria, we always have form 3 with extemporaneous prayers.
And at the “orate, fratres” or Pray brethren, our priest ALWAYS says, Pray, my friends.
At my local parish the confiteor is said on most Sundays. At my college (Thomas Aquinas College) the confiteor is said at all masses unless a sprinkling rite is used.
It is said every Mass, weekdays and weekends at my parish, St. Stephen the First Martyr, served by the Priestly Apostolate of St. Peter. Of course, it is the Tridentine Latin Mass. We drive over an hour each way to attend Mass at this parish. We would drive two!
On Corpus Christi Sunday there was a Solemn High Mass followed by a Corpus Christi procession. Guess what! The parish is young and growing at a rate that astonishes our bishop, Bishop Weigand of Sacramento. Remember him? He was one of, if not the first bishop, to deny a governor communion for supporting abortion. If you’ve been wondering where the Catholic Church has been hiding, try a Latin Mass community.
We say it pretty regularly at my Church. The thing I have noticed is that many people have forgotten to “strike” their breast (I put my fist gently to my chest) at the “That I have sinned through my own fault” part. Is this aspect being forgotten? I notice it is still in the Liturgy so we are supposed to do it, right?
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