Do you go to confession?

amdublin

Does anyone actually go??

Does the priest sit there reading a book waiting on the off chance some aul wan or aul fella comes in??

donvito99

amdublin wrote: »

raiding a book

Viking priest.

Mint Sauce

Oh an RC bashing thread.

<opens popcorn>

Serious answer though, I'm sure people do, cant remember when I last went though.

amdublin

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Oh an RC bashing thread.

<opens popcorn>

Umm I didn't post with the intention of bashing anyone

I'm watching "Keep the Faith" film (rom-com) on rte now and just saw a confession scene which reminded me about going to confession when I was a kid.

Last time I went I reckon I was 13.

Sir Osis of Liver.

No,never saw the point even as a kid.

smcgiff

Mint Sauce wrote: »

cant remember when I last went though.

Confession heard, my son. That's 2 Our Fathers and 6 Hail Mary's.

Don't leave it so long next time.

wretcheddomain

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Oh an RC bashing thread.

<opens popcorn>

We're in confession, shush.

AerynSun

amdublin wrote: »

I'm watching "Keep the Faith" film (rom-com) on rte now and just saw a confession scene which reminded me about going to confession when I was a kid.

That's an entertaining film in parts - don't want to spoil it for you, but there are some classic scenes in it... enjoy!

My name is URL

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

No,never saw the point even as a kid.

I always just made up stuff. No way was I actually going to tell him the bad stuff I done!

It was always crap like "forgive me father for I have sinned. I called my sister a big fat poo-poo head"

Knasher

I imagine they really only sit in there for a bit after a mass.

Son Of A Vidic

amdublin wrote: »

Do you go to confession?

Nope, never been arrested and don't plan on confessing anything to anybody.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I haven't gone in a long time. They're held every week in my local church and people go.

I'd wonder what would happen if you confessed to a murder these days, I was reading a book by Tim Pat Coogan ('The IRA') recently and he wrote of the old IRA chaps who were staunch Catholics and used to confess murders to a priest and be absolved without question.

Mint Sauce

amdublin wrote: »

Umm I didn't post with the intention of bashing anyone

I'm watching "Keep the Faith" film (rom-com) on rte now and just saw a confession scene which reminded me about going to confession when I was a kid.

Last time I went I reckon I was 13.

You may not have, but this is AHs, it will more than likely turn into one.

_Redzer_

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I haven't gone in a long time. They're held every week in my local church and people go.

I'd wonder what would happen if you confessed to a murder these days, I was reading a book by Tim Pat Coogan ('The IRA') recently and he wrote of the old IRA chaps who were staunch Catholics and used to confess murders to a priest and be absolved without question.

Great game to play with the priest if ever I find myself in confession!!

Fr_Dougal

My name is URL wrote: »

I always just made up stuff. No way was I actually going to tell him the bad stuff I done!

It was always crap like "forgive me father for I have sinned. I called my sister a big fat poo-poo head"

Ah, 'big fat poo-poo head'...category 1 sin, wouldn't even get you a Hail Mary. Lying to the priest though? That's a paddlin'.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Father O'connor was off sick
So father Murphy took the confessions for the day
A woman came in and said
'Forgive me Father for I have sinned, I gave a man a blow job'
father Murphy looked on his penance list but could not see the blow job on his sinners list
So he whispered to a nearby altar boy ' What does father O'connor give for a blow job nowadays ?'
The altar boy replied
'Usually 2 quid and a packet of crisps'

gctest50

Knasher wrote: »

I imagine they really only sit in there for a bit after a mass.

I suppose its better than the alternative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlOYx1zmpk

rolliepoley

http://www.reddit.com/r/confession/


:pac:

Vito Corleone

I always used to say I told a lie because I probably did and if I didn't then I had just told the priest a lie.

Red Pepper

I think making children do confession is very wrong. It is cruel and does nothing for their self esteem. Kids have it bad enough with their "original" sin

kneemos

The shinners should confess.

_Redzer_

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Ah, 'big fat poo-poo head'...category 1 sin, wouldn't even get you a Hail Mary. Lying to the priest though? That's a paddlin'.

I hate when you were forced into confession at school and while you're in there bored out of your tree telling him your sins until you're done, he's still staring at you as in "come on!", so you have to resort to lying about what you've done to get him off your back.

I couldn't have been the only one doing that? :pac:

Reindeer

God already knows what your sins are. Asking the middle man for forgiveness he can't give you makes little sense.

Agricola

Always remember hating having to go when in school. Never knew what to say cos I rarely did anything that bad when I was 10! So i used to tell him I spat at people! Never spat at anyone in my life!

rolliepoley

_Redzer_ wrote: »

I hate when you were forced into confession at school and while you're in there bored out of your tree telling him your sins until you're done, he's still staring at you as in "come on!", so you have to resort to lying about what you've done to get him off your back.

I couldn't have been the only one doing that? :pac:

And whats gas is, your discussion on what sins to tell him with your class mates before you go in.

Ruu

_Redzer_ wrote: »

I hate when you were forced into confession at school and while you're in there bored out of your tree telling him your sins until you're done, he's still staring at you as in "come on!", so you have to resort to lying about what you've done to get him off your back.

I couldn't have been the only one doing that? :pac:

Similar, with me when I was finished waffling on about everything under the sun, he would come out with "Go on..". Unprepared!

Nemeses

Shure I've nothing to confess Ted.

Daqster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXwbEMMS7Y

Duff

Don't even go to mass, never mind confession.

Sir Arthur Daley

I havent been to confession since making my communion.

buyer95

What can a priest do if the confessor tells him something terrible like he is a serial killer? Does he just absolve him, then send him on his way to murder again?

Gran Hermano

In Ireland priest confesses to you.

timthumbni

I was brought up as a protestant though I don't believe in any of that nonsense since I was about 10. I do however remain fascinated by the idea of Catholics "confessing" to a priest about their alledged sins.

Do people really do this crap anymore?? It just seems bizarre to me.

Dublinpato

i remember my first and only confession as kid, the priest got p*ssed off with me because i didn't know the words before you actually start confessing you know forgive me father and all that jazz, so he tried to tell me what i was supposed to say when i go to confession but i couldn't understand a word he was saying, not sure if he was from the country or he just got back from the early house but because i couldn't repeat what he was saying he got annoyed and just told me to confess what i done and get out, i tell ye if they had a webpage where you could rate all the priest in Ireland that f*cker would be on the last page.

timthumbni

Dublinpato wrote: »

i remember my first and only confession as kid, the priest got p*ssed off with me because i didn't know the words before you actually start confessing you know forgive me father and all that jazz, so he tried to tell me what i was supposed to say when i go to confession but i couldn't understand a word he was saying, not sure if he was from the country or he just got back from the early house but because i couldn't repeat what he was saying he got annoyed and just told me to confess what i done and get out, i tell ye if they had a webpage where you could rate all the priest in Ireland that f*cker would be on the last page.

I laughed. What a load of balls the whole thing is. Thank god (lol) I'm an atheist.

Sunglasses Ron

Red Pepper wrote: »

Kids have it bad enough with their "original" sin

This isn't the 50's. Kids don't learn about original sin, burning in hell, and anything else remotely dogmatic.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I'd wonder what would happen if you confessed to a murder these days, I was reading a book by Tim Pat Coogan ('The IRA') recently and he wrote of the old IRA chaps who were staunch Catholics and used to confess murders to a priest and be absolved without question.

Given the IRA regarded their hits as military engagements rather than murder I am surprised they confessed to anything. I doubt even the most religious Catholic would regard killing a rival soldier in battle as worthy of confessing.

Femme_Fatale

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

This isn't the 50's. Kids don't learn about original sin, burning in hell, and anything else remotely dogmatic.

We certainly were fed it in the 80s/90s; no need to go as far back as the 50s at all.

Rasheed

Went when I was in Lourdes. It was mighty, got a grand little foreign priest. He was lovely, it was face to face, not through a bit of aul plastic lace. More of a counselling session than a confession. He's ruined me now though, I could tell him anything, not like the local priest that baptised me. I'd go back just to have a chat with my little foreign priest.

Mint Aero

I was 17 before I first heard of a thing called original sin and then I LOL

littlelulu

I haven't gone since I finally sorted my life out by not cursing and doing the washing up when I was told. It took me many many years of sinning before I changed though. I'm ashamed of myself.

Skid X

amdublin wrote: »

Does anyone actually go??

Does the priest sit there reading a book waiting on the off chance some aul wan or aul fella comes in??

Nah, although most of the Cousins still do, every now and then.

P_1

Haven't gone since sixth class in school, I think you had to do it as part of the whole confirmation malarkey (now there's something I wish I called bullschit on but that's another day's rant)

marozz

I must confess, I don't.

Legs.Eleven

Was made go in primary school like most Irish kids. The naughty boys used to invent the most shocking sins to tell the priest and would look out for the reactions of the priests when each fella went up. Thinking back now, that might've been the naughtiest thing a child in the 80s could do.

Czarcasm

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

We certainly were fed it in the 80s/90s; no need to go as far back as the 50s at all.

Like any profession (or in this case - vocation), it really depends on the person wearing the collar tbh, some are still the fire and brimstone, burn in hell type, but more are a bit more relaxed about it...

Rasheed wrote: »

Went when I was in Lourdes. It was mighty, got a grand little foreign priest. He was lovely, it was face to face, not through a bit of aul plastic lace. More of a counselling session than a confession. He's ruined me now though, I could tell him anything, not like the local priest that baptised me. I'd go back just to have a chat with my little foreign priest.

The above is more like my experience too, sure you can do the confession booth malarkey but I'd go just when I've something on my mind and we'd sit down for a chat face to face.

If I have a physical problem I'll go see my doctor, if I have a mental problem I'll go see my therapist, and if I have a spiritual problem I'll go have a chat with my priest.

I suppose it's whatever works for the individual really.

shruikan2553

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4B-PysR_4s

Never been to a confession. I have no sins to confess to. Theres no point me telling a man I did something "wrong" when I dont believe I have.

Galwayguy35

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I haven't gone in a long time. They're held every week in my local church and people go.

I'd wonder what would happen if you confessed to a murder these days, I was reading a book by Tim Pat Coogan ('The IRA') recently and he wrote of the old IRA chaps who were staunch Catholics and used to confess murders to a priest and be absolved without question.

Well unless the "old IRA chaps" told Coogan this themselves I don't know how he would know this seeing as the Priest can't tell anyone.

Amazingfun

Yes, I go to Confession.

I went last week before the Latin Mass at St. Kevin's , Harrington Street, Dublin 8.

There were so many people in line for confession, they kept doing them during Mass, and there were three rows of people waiting.


It's actually a good thing for the soul, more ought to try it.

This way of life did work for our people for thousands of years, being a part of that Tradition is a bit beautiful really, even if only a once in a while event.

eyescreamcone

Bless me father for I have sinned.
It's been 33 years since my last confession...

Cancel your appointments - we might be here a while...




Confession...
Bullish!t made up to keep tabs on the gullible fairytale-ists!!!

eyescreamcone

And don't get me started on the sanctity of the confessional box...

Galwayguy35

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Bless me father for I have sinned.
It's been 33 years since my last confession...

Cancel your appointments - we might be here a while...




Confession...
Bullish!t made up to keep tabs on the gullible fairytale-ists!!!

Yeah we get it, you don't like Catholics, I wonder would you be as quick to say the above to people in real life though?