When Priest Gives No Spiritual Advice in Confession

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That’s good to hear, soldier. Insurance on a Pinto can be quite high. 😎
 
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I’m glad I wasn’t part of engineering, management, or the victims that had to experience that catastrophe.
 
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I hope I won’t have to separate you two.
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I think we’re both hoping for the same destination, LOL, so have good hope that we’ll figure it out eventually.

(I would not be surprised if our Purgatory was showing we could be saints while in the same room?)
 
If you want extra advice during a routine confession, you have to ask for it. Chances are your priest has to deal with at least one spiritual basketcase every time he’s on confession duty, so he probably doesn’t have a lot of time to impart profound wisdom onto the normies.
 
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Surely, we’d get along just fine in purgatory…

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The last week of Lent and Holy Week is the busiest “confession season” of the year for priests. So some priests will not go give much advice during this time (unless you said “Bless me father it’s been 20 years since my last confession”).

Now, if you go to Confession monthly and you never get any advice, then perhaps you could talk to Father about that. But during the last week of Lent & Holy Week - this is literally “March Madness” for them in terms of Confession.

God Bless
 
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My solution to this problem is to be picky about my Confessor. I have a regular Confessor and I almost always go to him. I have chosen him, among other reasons, because he always takes a few minutes to give good advice and I never feel rushed. Spiritual advice isn’t an absolutely necessary aspect of confession for validity, but it is an important one to me, particularly with devotional confessions.

What to do about this is simple: be grateful for the absolution that you received. Going forward, unless you have an urgent need, seek out a Confessor who has a style that is more compatible with what you are looking for, what will help your spiritual growth the most. If such a Confessor isn’t available to you, pray for one and be grateful that you have confession available at all.
 
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I once knew a priest, a wonderful priest who has now gone to his eternal reward. He was an old Irishman who who used to start daily Mass 3 minutes early. He was very quick, so if you arrived 2 minutes late, you would find yourself coming in around the gospel. He was also very quick with confession. He was hard of hearing and the confessionals were not particularly soundproof. If you were speaking softly, after approximately one-and-a-half sins, he would ask if his beautiful Irish, lilting voice, “Is that all, then?” and proceed to give absolution. He was a very popular Confessor among those who preferred and in and out confession, but I’ve been told by those who experienced it that he was remarkably keen, a fact that would come out on rare occasions. He was dearly loved and is dearly missed by the parish a pastor for 40 years.
 
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