Quick Confessions When Father is in a Hurry

[LiamQ]

You really create havoc for yourself when you:

1. Believe that you are in a better position to determine what constitutes a sacrament’s validity than a priest who has spent years in study and formation precisely to know these matters.
2. Bring your doubts and anxieties to a forum populated by far too people of whom the old adage applies, “A little bit of knowledge is a very dangerous thing.”

To be fair, Father, the simple assumption that every Priest went to a wonderful seminary where they were an excellent student—or that they even particularly care about Sacramental theology or view it as being objectively true—is not an assumption that every layman in every Diocese has the ability to afford to make. Not all of us have the luxury of having Fr. Ruggero at our local parish. Many are stuck with Priests who have been reinventing theology and the Holy Mass in their own images for decades now, and it’s not enough to simply tell them to assume their Priests are so very smart and they are all so very stupid (which I have to say is very condescending).

 

[LiamQ]

And yes, in spite of what someone wrote, your confession assuredly was integral …

Thank you, Father, for the correction.

My understanding of this was rooted in the assumption that an integral confession is one:

… where for all your mortal sins, you say what each sin was, how many times it was committed, and anything that affected the species or kind of sin it was.

I believed, moreover, that a confession where a penitent does not “say what each sin was” would not be integral; but that there are certain factors—ones that are moral or physical in nature—which would permit a penitent to be absolved of their sin without having made an integral confession. A physical impediment might be not having time to confess all of one’s sins, such as when a plane is going down. A moral impediment might be having forgotten one or more of one’s mortal sins.

Apparently, one does not have to make auricular confession in order for their confession to be integral, despite documents from the Church seemingly stating as much. All one needs to do is to communicate their sins in some sort of fashion, whether auricular or not. Is this understanding correct?

For my own information, I would appreciate it if you could provide some sort of source for this.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Today I went to confession after Friday daily Mass (which I always do nowadays because I work Saturday afternoon) and Father was in a bit of w hurry. He needed to get to another town which is approximately 30+ minutes away. During the confession I just showed him my sin notepad and after reading it Father said the absolution. We didn’t follow the “formula” so to speak as I didn’t have to make an act of contrition, but as he gave me a penance and granted absolution I assume it was valid?

So the priest, your priest, absolved you, spoke the words of absolution but you doubt them. Then you trust internet posters on the issue!?