The saying of the Confiteor during mass

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I understand that it isn’t a requirement to say the Confiteor during mass and you can choose options B or C, but we never seem to say the Confiteor. I was just wondering if there could be a reason for not saying it. Mass for me is always great, but it seems to lack something with the Confiteor, and I always have to say it to myself. Is this normal for a priest to not choose it?

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Gabe

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I understand that it isn’t a requirement to say the Confiteor during mass and you can choose options B or C, but we never seem to say the Confiteor. I was just wondering if there could be a reason for not saying it. Mass for me is always great, but it seems to lack something with the Confiteor, and I always have to say it to myself. Is this normal for a priest to not choose it?

Thanks,
Gabe

I posted this like 5 min. ago, but when I submitted it i got an error page, and i couldn’t find my post in the new posts forum, so If i am double posting, my bad.
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Two reasons:

1] Most priests don’t like to talk about individual sin ('I confess).

2] The key is to rush through the mass as fast as possible, so eliminate ‘options,’ always use Eucharistic prayer II, trample over sacred silence, and the like.
 
I do believe it’s somewhat time related.

My parish tends to only say the confiteor during Advent and Lent when the Gloria is not sung.

Another reason may be that there seem to be a lot of modern musical settings of option3.
 
I think that it depends on the particular priest celebrating and the liturgical season in my parish. We are doing the confiteor right now at all Sunday morning masses, but during the ordinary time and Easter season we usually do it at daily mass and sing on Sundays. If we get a visiting priest who lives in a religious community, then sometimes they seem to prefer the recitation.
 
Our priest never leads in it. 😦
Since Easter it’s been said once by a visiting priest. Before that, once by another visiting priest.

I wish our priest would do it and have even wanted to ask him, but…I’m too chicken. :o
 
We said it a couple of weeks ago, but that was it, and it seems it only very rarely happens - like when you have a visiting priest. I like it. It’s humbling, which is never a bad thing IMHO.
 
Confiteror? What Confiteor? Do you mean that prayer that begins with the words “I confess to almighty God” and thus vaguely resembles the Confiteor?
 
We say it every single Sunday Mass. I attend the 11 AM Solomn Mass but I know that it is said at all the Masses every Sunday and Saturday Vigil.
 
Epsilon_Omega said:
I understand that it isn’t a requirement to say the Confiteor during mass and you can choose options B or C, but we never seem to say the Confiteor. I was just wondering if there could be a reason for not saying it. Mass for me is always great, but it seems to lack something with the Confiteor, and I always have to say it to myself. Is this normal for a priest to not choose it?

Thanks,
Gabe
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I miss the Confetior too. I’m half expecting them to skip the Kyire next. :mad:
 
I think we hear it three or four times during each Tridentine Mass. I usually attend Mass about four or five times a week so I hear it quite a few times each week. It is truly profound.

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We say it every Sunday and during many of our daily Masses. We have two very reverent priests - we are very blessed indeed.
 
Our pastor and priests have “returned” the Confiteor back to our Sunday Masses. It’s good to see that so many of us still remember it!
 
Two of the priests at my parish always say the Confiteor. One usually does not. The one priest always starts by saying loudly, “I confess” and then speaks it softly as the congregation finishes saying it along with him.
 
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So what is the real Confetior?
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I confess to almighty God, to blessed Mary, ever virgin, to holy Michael the archangel, to the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, to all the saints, and to you [Father, or brothers] that I have sinned most grievously in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I beseach blessed Mary ever virgin, holy Michael the archangel, the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, all the saints, and you (Father, or brrothers), to pray to the Lord our God for me.

That’s from a 45-year-old memory, folks, so be kind to me.

No fooling, and I was being half-facetious in implying that we want this back. In the Old Latin Mass, it was said three times: Once by the priest to the altar boys, once by them back to him, and later in the Mass before communion.

Where did the bathwater end, and the baby begin? That is the question.
 
No fooling, and I was being half-facetious in implying that we want this back. In the Old Latin Mass, it was said three times: Once by the priest to the altar boys, once by them back to him, and later in the Mass before communion.
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I served the Latin Mass as an altar boy for several years pre-Vatican II. We memorized those prayers in Latin. Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti / beatae Mariae semper Virgini / beato Michaeli Archangelo / beato Joanni Baptistae…etc.
It was NEVER said three times in any mass I ever served, attended or ever heard of. It was said Once! Even when my great-uncle Fr. Matt Littleton visited us from Scotland and said the Latin Mass at our parish and we (my brother and I) served. Same mass as ours. Once.
 
I served the Latin Mass as an altar boy for several years pre-Vatican II. We memorized those prayers in Latin. Confiteor Deo Omnipotenti / beatae Mariae semper Virgini / beato Michaeli Archangelo / beato Joanni Baptistae…etc.
It was NEVER said three times in any mass I ever served, attended or ever heard of. It was said Once! Even when my great-uncle Fr. Matt Littleton visited us from Scotland and said the Latin Mass at our parish and we (my brother and I) served. Same mass as ours. Once.
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Yes, and I imagine you memorized the exact Latin spelling (which you did get correct, mirabile dictu) at the same time in addition to learning it phonetically. Virtually every altar boy recited the prayers at the foot of the altar from rote without understanding a syllable of its meaning, and that goes for every single word throughout the service that they had to mouth in Latin. And I’ve got news for you: A heck of a lot of priests did not understand it any better and also did everything phonetically, and badly even on those terms, at least in the US.

You may only have said it once, but if you were paying careful attention, the priest said it twice, once for himself, and, later on, on behalf of the faithful, who were not presumed in advance to be allowed access to the altar to receive communion. It would have been easy to miss this, because priests spoke in such undertones (or even, intentionally, in silence) that nobody knew what was going on, even the altar boys.
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