Unable To Attend Confession, What Can I do?

[LilyM]

I appreciate your response however, let me explain something here, with my husband searching for work, there is a chance that one day I will have to pack up and move, i don’t want to get into something I know I have to stop doing for a short period of time, I want to keep doing what I am. It is not simply this easy.

Put it this way - it IS ‘simply this easy’ for you to go to Mass wherever you may be, however temporarily you may be staying there. In fact you are obligated to go each and every Sunday no matter where you are, as long as you can get to a Catholic church.

In exactly the same manner you obligated to confess your sins when you have need. It’s the same Jesus present in every confessional, every town, after all, just He may look a little different. Just as it is the same Jesus present on every altar in every town.

So it absolutely IS ‘simply this easy’ for you to go to confession - wherever you may be, however temporarily you may be staying there.

For Catholics, going to confession when you are in a state of sin is like going to the doctor when you are physically ill. If you were struck ill in your present town - or any place on earth - there’s no way you’d be saying ‘I can’t go see a doctor here, because he or she won’t be MY doctor from my home town’.

Because if you think like that then the illness will get worse (or at least not better) and potentially kill you! Sin kills the soul - so go see the doctor (the priest) about it pronto!

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

**I truly understand now that you don’t have to give a confession at the same church, Question is has this always been around since the starting of confession within the Catholic Church? **

As far as I know this has always been the case.

Canon law is pretty clear: Can. 991 Every member of the Christian faithful is free to confess sins to a legitimately approved confessor of his or her choice, even to one of another rite.

If you can legitimately go to a priest of another Catholic rite, you can certainly go to a priest of the same rite who happens to be at a different parish.