When will catholic confessionals resume after COVID-19?

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When will confessions resume after the COVID-19 quarantine begins to lift?
 
It depends on your diocese I suppose. Mine has been hearing them this whole time, thanks be to God.
 
Fauken said:
It depends on your diocese I suppose. Mine has been hearing them this whole time, thanks be to God.
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I am.fairly confident most dioceses have made allowance for individual confession by appointment throughout.
 
LilyM said:
I am.fairly confident most dioceses have made allowance for individual confession by appointment throughout.
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Agreed. I don’t know which diocese the OP was talking about though, so I kept my answer general.
 
What happens during a confession by appointment? Do you sit face to face with the priest or is the option to be separated for privacy of who you are available there also?
 
I would guess the answer to that depends on the parish. Just ask at your parish.
 
In my US diocese it seems to be available only “in emergency” which I think means Danger of Death.

My sins are annoying, but pretty mundane.

Edit: the auto correct changed what I wrote to" my sons are annoying…"

Eek!
 
We’ve also been lucky to have regular confession, inside the church, as usual, only with some social distancing precautions. In fact, I just came back from it–love the Sunday confession time.
 
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What happens during a confession by appointment? Do you sit face to face with the priest or is the option to be separated for privacy of who you are available there also?
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Most likely the priest just unlocks the confessional and you go in and confess like normal. It’s tougher to be truly anonymous if that’s important to you.
 
Confessions stopped? Not at my parish. We must be blessed. It is done privately in the parish garden with both priest hearing and person confessing wearing masks. We just need to call for an appointment.

You are confessing to God, not to the priest. He is only acting as the person in Christ. Using or not using a confessional has ever bothered me, because I may be able to hide from a man, but I can’t hide from God…that being said, that’s just me, and if it bothers you, I’m sure it can be worked out…actually my parish doesn’t have a confessional.
 
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Ours is by appointment (don’t know the details) or on Thursdays. People line up in their cars. When your car gets to the front you get out and go stand behind a curtain or stand in view for an outdoor confession.
 
Thankfully Reconciliation has gone on at the regularly scheduled Saturday time, and expanded to Sunday where it used to be on Monday evening. In lieu of the Confessional. a room off the narthex has been pressed into service. There is a screen and kneeler just after beyond the door. Father sits about eight to ten feet away in a chair oblique to the kneeler. I only wish I could receive Communion. I have been slipping up pretty regularly which is unusual and I can attribute it to both human frailty and lack of the Eucharist. 😦
 
Yeah, the priests around here haven’t been using confessionals. They just set up in the main church, one priest on each side. One place has each priest beyond a big solid portable screen and the other church has face-to-face only. I prefer to be behind the screen but since I just want to go to confession I can go either way or I go to the other church. I’m honestly just glad they kept having confessions and would have gone to confession on the front steps of the church if I had to, or in the parking lot, anything.
 
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When will confessions resume after the COVID-19 quarantine begins to lift?
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In my diocese, they never stopped. I was in the confessional today (with a mask)

And Father had some kind of electronic air purifier in there with him.
 
Confession by appointment is usually face to face inside the recortoy (at least at my parish)

However, I guess it’s theoretically possible to arrange an anonymous confession by appointment if the priest is willing to meet you in the confessional
 
Same here, in fact, more confession times available than every before here!
 
great news everyone- this morning I called a nearby parish and a parish staff member answered the phone in a timely manner. I was able to make an appointment for confession which I went to earlier this afternoon. It was a very good thing, no shame, no judgment, just God’s grace. We sat next to a statue of the Blessed Virgin which I brought three roses for her on one stem- it seemed fitting.
 
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