tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post4178150059602634020..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: :Mad Trad 4: C is for ConfessionMrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-70451940059393878702015-08-06T02:59:32.473+01:002015-08-06T02:59:32.473+01:00I think the issue is that we really need another p...I think the issue is that we really need another priest at the Cathedral, combined with a congregation that has a high attendance at Confession compared to the other churches in the area. We had a Msgr. of blessed memory preach often about confession, and we still see the fruits of it after his death. As for weird experience, I think it has to do with my impatience and lack of charity than anything else. The parish is quite orthodox about the way they do things, no vapid music (think Bach during, and silence before and after), by the rubric, etc. It'd be "nice" to blame the parish, but I'm afraid it's me!Mari Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171764404064781371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-80532829920854340222015-08-05T10:18:45.557+01:002015-08-05T10:18:45.557+01:00Can you suggest this to your priest? I had some we...Can you suggest this to your priest? I had some weird experiences going to confession,and the first time I wrote to the pastor about it. I HOPE I was diplomatic--and I think I was mostly complaining about the overly loud recording of not-exactly-Catholic music (John Rutter?) drowning out my thoughts and prayers as I waited to confess. However, the next bizarre episode meant A) an article in the Catholic Register and B) me never going to that church for confession ever again, ("Mission accomplished" the priests of that parish may be thinking, since I no longer believe all priests believe the Catholic faith and hope to foster it in Catholics, let alone anyone else.)Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-59540011345803839122015-08-05T04:52:33.689+01:002015-08-05T04:52:33.689+01:00Yep, I feel that too. Too bad I get annoyed waitin...Yep, I feel that too. Too bad I get annoyed waiting in line for it. I have had to wait over an hour more than once because so many people were in line. I wish they had confession with more convenient hours for working people.Mari Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171764404064781371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-24603819466488940432015-08-04T21:28:41.534+01:002015-08-04T21:28:41.534+01:00Self, approaching confession, "I hate confess...Self, approaching confession, "I hate confession. I hate confession. I hate confession."<br /><br />Self, leaving confession, "I love confession. I love confession. I love confession."<br /><br />There's nothing quite like confession to make one feel all shiny and new again. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14147704562320717463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-37809582135326324652015-08-04T17:01:51.518+01:002015-08-04T17:01:51.518+01:00I am eternally grateful that even though I made my...I am eternally grateful that even though I made my First Confession and First Communion in the mid-late 70s and the Height of Awful, I was prepared by a wonderful religious sister who was the only one of her community to vote to retain the habit (which was wool). I still remember things she taught us about these sacraments, about the Mass, about what to pray when we genuflect or at the elevation of the host and chalice at the consecration.<br /><br />Nevertheless, even Sister Saintly had us memorize the Act of Contrition with these changes: "...I detest all my sins because of Your just punishments....I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin." Not the worst of possible revisions; I did know that "just punishment" meant losing Heaven and suffering for all eternity in hell, I knew that I had to do the penance I was assigned, and I knew that Confession wasn't a free pass, that I was supposed to overcome confessed sins. And I have to say I watched out for those near occasions of sin. But for someone who didn't have Sr. Saintly and/or well-catechized parents to teach them, the revised Act of Contrition does seem rather...wishy-washy. And for the life of me, I can't recall any other formula when I'm actually in the confessional.Domestic Divanoreply@blogger.com