SPLIT: Valid absolution?

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Not a strange place really, but got like a drive-by Absolution. W
Went to talk to a visiting priest before Mass one Sunday.

Me: Father, can talk to you a moment? I need to Confess. I did x, y, and z this week.

Priest: (smiling broadly) Are you sorry for your sins and promise to try to never do them again?

Me: Well yes, but-

Priest: (making sign of the cross) Then you’re forgiven. Say a Hail Mary.

Me: Really? Can you do that just like that?

Priest: (still smiling) Yup.
Did he pronounce the words of absolution? If he didn’t, you weren’t absolved.
 
Did he pronounce the words of absolution? If he didn’t, you weren’t absolved.
Just to be clear, those words are:

“I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”

If he didn’t say those words, you didn’t receive absolution.
 
Not a strange place really, but got like a drive-by Absolution. W
Went to talk to a visiting priest before Mass one Sunday.

Me: Father, can talk to you a moment? I need to Confess. I did x, y, and z this week.

Priest: (smiling broadly) Are you sorry for your sins and promise to try to never do them again?

Me: Well yes, but-

Priest: (making sign of the cross) Then you’re forgiven. Say a Hail Mary.

Me: Really? Can you do that just like that?

Priest: (still smiling) Yup.
If this is really what the priest said then no absolution was given.
 
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