Describe your feelings after if you care to share.
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I never wondered that before, but I do now. Most of my knowledge of the confessional comes from the end credits of eurotrip.
Is it awkward?
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There's a screen but they still know you by your voice in many situations I'm sure.
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Also, at least the way I've seen it portrayed the confession is followed by a prescription of some sort of act of penance. Is that proportional to the crime? I know the confessional is sealed, but would the priest ever approach you in private to discuss something you said?
I'm sure someone knows a good confessional story. Help us non-Catholics out.
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A fuzzy very loose idea at this point but it is centered on the question of why some people particularly the left seem to enjoy pointing out or possibly "confessing" past sins they had no hand in.
Madman said:
Protestants also confess their sins but normally in prayer and not to a priest or pastor.
Redstone said:
Confession, liturgy, the Sacrifice, the Sacraments, are essential for worship. As the Catholic Catechism says: the Eucharist is the source and summit of true worship.
Protestants:
How exactly did Christians have it so wrong for 1,400 years? Those Christians who produced the Bible? (Very literally is it a product of the Apostolic Church, negotiated mostly from Rome in the 3rd Century)
k2aggie07 said:
In Orthodoxy you confess before an icon of Christ or in front of the gospel. The priest typically covers your head with his stole, then says a quick prayer, then asks - what's on your mind? You just talk. You're not confessing to him per se, you're confessing to God, and he is a witness and guide. Then he talks a bit. Maybe he gives you some advice. Maybe he asks some questions, or asks you to clarify. Maybe he tells you a story about himself, or some anecdote to help, or a quote from the fathers, or a bit of scripture. Often it's all of the above. He may give some penance - we don't do the Hail Mary thing, but once I was told to add Psalm 51 to my prayer rule for a month. Once he told me my penance was to come to liturgy the next day and commune, and to take some time to thank God for His forgiveness before the service. It just depends.
Then he says another prayer, says a quick blessing with a cross, you kiss the cross and his hand and that's that.
There are sometimes tears involved, at least for me. It's hard to talk about the parts of ourselves we are ashamed of and are pretty good at hiding from most people.
So yeah, he knows you. The whole point is pastoral.
Madman said:
I made the original post because I am wrestling with an idea.
A fuzzy very loose idea at this point but it is centered on the question of why some people particularly the left seem to enjoy pointing out or possibly "confessing" past sins they had no hand in.
It seem to me its something like an unearned confession made for the possible positive feelings you receive from an actual confession. A short term ego boost that requires no self reflection or introspection. An actual confession requires self searching and discovery and can be painful. The false confession does not.
Or something like this.
Madman said:
I made the original post because I am wrestling with an idea.
A fuzzy very loose idea at this point but it is centered on the question of why some people particularly the left seem to enjoy pointing out or possibly "confessing" past sins they had no hand in.
It seem to me its something like an unearned confession made for the possible positive feelings you receive from an actual confession. A short term ego boost that requires no self reflection or introspection. An actual confession requires self searching and discovery and can be painful. The false confession does not.
Or something like this.