When I informed him I was
not going to confession, he told me he was concerned because he didn't want my soul to go to hell.
Going to confession for the first time in a long while and trying to bring more joy into the house instead of worrying so much.
He starts the day
by going to confession and revealing that he's once again failed to quit smoking at the request of his wife.
I have been part of services focused on reconciliation where you
then went to confession but I wonder if people will be tweeting their sins LOL!
«And most importantly, Iowa is not Ohio State or Michigan or Penn State, so there's still a championship - caliber Big Ten team you can root for on Saturday without having to
go to confession on Sunday.»
If a couple are sincere in trying to keep to such a decision — even if they fail on occasion and
go to confession when they do — then the way is open for them to receive Holy Communion.
Greene began rationalizing the affair, even getting advice from some priests that it was all right to
go to confession again and again knowing he would immediately resume the liaison.
And this recently touted study said «have ever used» sheesh that includes 1 time condom use and the stride has almost nothing to say about whether
anyone went to confession and no longer practices it.
Food shortages are caused by by nations warring over whose god is the biggest, while those who have plenty of
food go to confession once again to relieve their guilt.
Notre Dame certainly is Catholic, but I doubt that even 25 per cent of its football
team go to confession and take communion.
We realize that some people in the Church have committed this terrible sin but I have never considered leaving the Church because of someone's sin... and I don't think anyone has left because they saw me waiting in line to
go to confession either.
Even among those
still going to confession sporadically, an attitude of reservation and selective participation has crept in.
I saw young people in huge
numbers going to confession - at the great Festival of Forgiveness in the central park where a city of special white confessionals had been erected, but also at dozens of other places, in meeting - places, on long walks, on the airfield, on coaches or buses, anywhere and everywhere that offered the opportunity.
For just as little as in that silent churchyard the multitude of dead make up a society,» so little does the multitude of those coming to confess make up a society — for not even the
king goes to confession alone in order to escape the common company of others.
The soul that will
go to confession within 8 days and receive communion and spend some time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament on this day shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment».
This does not mean it is OK to become complacent about confession and think it doesn't matter if I do this, because I can
always go to confession and I will be forgiven.
Some older people and priests argue that this is a liberation from their Jansenistic Irish upbringing, when they were that you could never approach Holy Communion
without going to confession the day before.
True story: When my (Catholic) ex and I were dating, he said something
about going to confession & I asked him if he confessed about me.
And he had come things to say about pastoral practice which make him sound like the good Catholic parish priest that in some ways he continued to be: «Everyone should prepare in time and get ready for death
by going to confession and taking the sacrament once every week or fortnight.
The Popes
themselves go to confession weekly.
Of the priests who responded in an Episcopal Conference survey, 54 %
went to confession «once a year or less».
If so, she needs to
go to confession.