Is there a 'dress code' for Confession?

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I’m in a bit of a jam with Confession. I need the sacrament, but when it’s being offered is a little inconvenient (sp) to me. If I want to go I have to come right from practice, so I could be sweaty and dirty. I live too far away to go home and shower and still have time for Confession. So my question is: is there a ‘dress code’ for Confession? Should I go right after practice or should I skip it? I feel like I need it but I guess I can skip it and miss out on Communion at the next Mass I go to (on Sunday).

Advice anyone?

Thank you in advance,
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coolduude said:
I’m in a bit of a jam with Confession. I need the sacrament, but when it’s being offered is a little inconvenient (sp) to me. If I want to go I have to come right from practice, so I could be sweaty and dirty. I live too far away to go home and shower and still have time for Confession. So my question is: is there a ‘dress code’ for Confession? Should I go right after practice or should I skip it? I feel like I need it but I guess I can skip it and miss out on Communion at the next Mass I go to (on Sunday).

Advice anyone?

Thank you in advance,
coolduude
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Well, can you go behind a screen? That would be better…so the priest won’t have to see or smell you. If not, I really don’t know what to tell you.

-Jeanne
 
I see all kinds of outfits in the confession line at the cathedral downtown, the “dressiest” church in the area; there is no “dress code” that I know of. However, it’s nice to remember that our Lord is present in the tabernacle, so don’t deliberately show up looking a mess if you can help it. A lot of people stop in on their way to and from other activities, since it’s Saturday and they are out and about anyway. As long as you’re not totally filthy or totally inappropriately dressed (i.e., a swimmer just coming from the pool and still in Speedos :eek:), go for it!

I’m assuming you have some sort of athletic practice, if you’re going to be sweaty and dirty? A “dirty” soul is much more serious than a dirty body! If you don’t have access to a locker room with a shower, maybe you could wash up a little bit in the church’s restroom before you get in the confession line. 🙂

God bless!
 
Unless you’re wearing something too indecent to be seen in public, come as you are. 🙂
 
coolduude said:
I’m in a bit of a jam with Confession. I need the sacrament, but when it’s being offered is a little inconvenient (sp) to me. If I want to go I have to come right from practice, so I could be sweaty and dirty. I live too far away to go home and shower and still have time for Confession. So my question is: is there a ‘dress code’ for Confession? Should I go right after practice or should I skip it? I feel like I need it but I guess I can skip it and miss out on Communion at the next Mass I go to (on Sunday).

Advice anyone?

Thank you in advance,
coolduude
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Yes! You must wear clothes.
 
You don’t have to be dressed as though you were going to Mass.

And, from what you said, there is no time for you to go home, shower, and change.

The most important thing is that you get to confession, so just go as you are.
 
I go to confession about once a month (and this month the line was really LONG – I guess because it’s Lent). I was wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt (no decoration or writing), and black pants and socks, and blue shoes. Oh, and a light green sweater. So casual, but tasteful.

I can’t totally say I remember much about what anyone else was wearing. I do remember one couple brought their little boy with them (he didn’t go into the confessional with either parent), and he had shoes that had blinking red lights and were a bit distracting.

But I think casual is fine. It is STILL church, however, so I wouldn’t want to see plunging necklines and skin tight jeans and tube tops. (And sometimes I do see that, unfortunately.)
 
Chances are that coolduude in a tube top would be very distracting. Probably hilarious. 😉
 
it is like daily Mass, whatever you are wearing to do your daily activities. even if that were swimming or working out no doubt you would ordinary where sweats or some type of coverup for modesty out on the street. There is never an occasion for a Catholic to wear immodest clothing ie showing cleavage, belly band etc. anywhere outside so that would not be an issue.
 
only the one about “legal for street wear”.

while it would be preferable to dress as if one was going someplace “nice” and YES it would be best if you could bathe and wear nice clothing… no one is going to kick you out.
in my church we have confession twice daily, every day. i have seen everything from shorts and t shirts to business suits.
shrug

it is better to go to confession, wearing whatever you must, than to skip a needed sacrement out of vanity, pride, or convenience. i figure anyway.
 
If I was the priest, I would say “COME, AND I DON’T CARE WHAT THE HECK YOU LOOK LIKE JUST SO LONG AS YOU’RE HERE.” And I’m planning to be a priest one day! Though I’m not a priest yet so you can humbug me without a problem.

But indeed, go! They should care vastly more about your soul than they do about your sweat. If they don’t, that really stinks. Not you; them :p. Or their attitude, I mean. I’ll shut-up now before I make myself look like an idiot, but I meant what I said in this post.
 
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