Who's going to try to get to Confession this weekend?

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My parish has continued to offer confession at the appointed time on Sunday throughout this pandemic. I’m still debating on going this weekend.
 
Richard_White said:
It is simply the interpersonal interaction between the priest
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Which is absolutely something physical.
Richard_White said:
As such, in extraordinary circumstances such as these, couldn’t that interpersonal interaction be recreated over the phone?
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It’s not the interaction, it’s the personal presence that’s important.

And besides any speculation on anyone’s part, the Church has spoken on this repeatedly for as long as it’s been an issue. I follow what it says.
 
The two priests at my parish, after streaming Sunday Mass, spend the morning out in the rectory garden area (rather large) and hold confessions there with a fairly large space between them and the pentitent but small enough so others don’t hear. Certainly a unique situation; one for the memory books! Luckily the weather has been spring-like these last couple weeks, which is pretty unusual for my area.
 
I might see if the Byzantine priest down the road will hear mine, but he wasn’t great about answering my last email.
 
Priests in our Diocese are encouraged to hear confessions often, our Parish has at least 2 hours of confession every day right now (more than we have ever had!)
 
I’m in a state of mortal sin and need Confession badly, so I hope I can get one of my parents to take me tomorrow. Don’t know how we’re gonna do it, since my parish is starting drive-through Confessions and I can’t drive. I’m not sure it’s road safety to walk through a drive-through as a pedestrian. But I have really good parents who can probably help me figure this out.
 
When you talk to someone on the phone, what the person on the other end hears is not your voice, but rather a copy of your voice created by the telephones. Much as I wish it weren’t so, absolving somebody over the phone makes as much sense as absolving somebody by recording, which is to say that it makes no sense at all.
 
Do what it takes to get it done: bathroom breaks, snacks, whatever you need to get through it.
 
Filia_Secunda said:
I’m in a state of mortal sin and need Confession badly, so I hope I can get one of my parents to take me tomorrow. Don’t know how we’re gonna do it, since my parish is starting drive-through Confessions and I can’t drive. I’m not sure it’s road safety to walk through a drive-through as a pedestrian. But I have really good parents who can probably help me figure this out.
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Just have one of your parents take you to the drive-thru confession and drive the car until it’s your turn to confess to the priest. Then your parent can get out of the car and walk far enough away so they wouldn’t be able to hear your confession. After you’re done, you can honk the horn to single to your parent that your done and they can get back into the car and drive you home.

🙂
 
Anyone who overhears a Confession is under the same obligation as a priest never to divulge its contents or otherwise use that information against the penitent.
 
Oh I’ve done Confession marathons before. I know how to deal with that. And I was mostly exaggerating when I said six hours a day. As it stands we’re still offering confessions nightly, and it adds up to more time than we normally would have. I’ll just be interested to see what the rate looks like when it’s business as usual.
 
My diocese in my part of the US has suspended Confession (except in extreme emergencies) until further notice. The same with Baptisms. The parishes are also be locked. I assume, even though there were no Masses, people were crowding in to pray and not keeping proper distance. So now they are locked.
 
I wish I could. Everything is closed. Entire diocese, surrounding dioceses.

I have mortal (I think, at least) sins to confess. Very worried.
 
😂 Just imagining this makes me laugh. Father snacking away while I’m confessing
He’s gonna poke his hand around and offer some to the penitent 🤣
 
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I don’t even know if churches in my area are doing confessions and haven’t thought about it figuring they weren’t. Thanks for starting this thread. I’ll call tomorrow and check or just go to see. I sure need to go.
 
I was thinking of going this weekend even though I’m in the high risk category, but the number of confirmed cases in my county more than doubled the normal day-to-day total overnight so I’m probably not going to risk it.
 
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Went this morning. Our priest did them 3 days this week in the parking lot. He is a boss.
In addition he live streamed mass every day,
 
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edward_george1 said:
There are many, many, many threads about this right now. But the short version is that sacraments require physical presence. I can’t just intend to consecrate all the hosts in every sacristy in my city, since I am not present to all of them. I can’t absolve distantly, since I am not present to the penitent, nor he to me.

-Fr ACEGC
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Father, could you absolve a penitent at one end of a football field while you were at the other, while talking on phones? Would that not be like a priest and penitent who both used hearing aids? I have too much time on my hands & know you are busy but thought I would ask! 🙂
 
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Our parish is doing drive thru confessions. I haven’t gone yet.
 
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