Persona Christi, Good Friday, and Confession

[in_servitude]

When we give our confession, and receive our penance and absolution, my understanding is that the priest is actually “Persona Christi”. Is it legal to offer confession on Good Friday if Christ is dead and not yet risen?

I have been under the impression that Good Friday Mass is not offered because it would not make sense for the priest to consecrate the host since he can’t really be “Persona Christi” on the altar due to the fact that Christ is dead and in the ground.

I probably have some wires crossed here, and I’d like some help straightening them out. Thanks!!!

 

[Zekariya]

When we give our confession, and receive our penance and absolution, my understanding is that the priest is actually “Persona Christi”. Is it legal to offer confession on Good Friday if Christ is dead and not yet risen?

I have been under the impression that Good Friday Mass is not offered because it would not make sense for the priest to consecrate the host since he can’t really be “Persona Christi” on the altar due to the fact that Christ is dead and in the ground.

I probably have some wires crossed here, and I’d like some help straightening them out. Thanks!!!

The priest may hear confessions on any day of the year. In the early Church, Mass was not offered during any weekdays of Lent and Holy Week (only on Saturdays and Sundays and on major feasts). Weekday services were only Communion services. This has nothing to do with the priest acting Persona Christi but, do to the Fact that Lent is a penitential time. The Latin Catholics Church currently does not offer Mass on Good Friday. The Eastern Catholic Churches, for the most part, follow the earlier practice.

Go to confession anytime you need it. After all, Christ healed on the Sabbath.

PS Christ is risen (all year round). We remember Christ’s death on Good Friday.

 

[CB_Catholic]

When we give our confession, and receive our penance and absolution, my understanding is that the priest is actually “Persona Christi”. Is it legal to offer confession on Good Friday if Christ is dead and not yet risen?

I have been under the impression that Good Friday Mass is not offered because it would not make sense for the priest to consecrate the host since he can’t really be “Persona Christi” on the altar due to the fact that Christ is dead and in the ground.

I probably have some wires crossed here, and I’d like some help straightening them out. Thanks!!!

Here is a blog which gives the reason according to St. Thomas Aquinas and might clear up your confusion and your impression. I found it interesting.

forcatholicholymass.blogspot.com/2010/04/good-friday-mass.html