Did you go to confession this Christmas? During 2015?

Fleawuss

In keeping with the religious surveying that goes on let's find out how many of you went to confession for Christmas or indeed at all during 2015? It's one of the sacraments and essential for practicing Catholics to admit their sins to a priest so he can give them gods forgiveness. According to them anyway.
I haven't been to confession in 40 years at least and I think the idea of it is just silly. But let's find out all the AH posters who have gone for Christmas or last year. If you want to tell us your sins or "Penance" all the better.

The Backwards Man

I've never been in a box.

pow wow

It's been so long I don't even remember the process, beyond the 'bless me father for I have sinned, it's been 20 squillion years since my last confession' intro. I don't take communion for that reason but I'm sure the nosey old neighbourhood trouts who hand it out think it's for a much more sinister reason :cool:

pow wow

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've never been in a box.

With a username like yours I can well believe it.

ponzook

No I'm not telling a priest things I did which he will probably use later to jack off to!

AppleBottle

I haven't been to confession since primary school when we would have a priest come in and we would have to confess our sins to them.

The Randy Riverbeast

Never have been, nothing to confess. At least by my standards nothing.

Stinicker

Last time I went to confession was Christmas Eve 2004.

whatismyname

I like this.

Johnny goes to confession and says, "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose woman."
The priest ask, "Is that you, little Johnny Babineaux?
"Yes, Father it is."
"And who was the woman you were with?"
Johnny says, "I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation."
"Well, Johnny, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later, so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Comeaux?"
"I cannot say."
"Was it Teresa Thibodeaux?"
"I'll never tell."
"Was it Nina Olivier?"
"I'm sorry but I cannot name her."
"Was it Cathy Prejean?"
"My lips are sealed."
"Was it Rosa Prudhomme, then?"
"Please, Father," Johnny pleaded, "I cannot tell you."
The priest sighs in frustration. "You're very tight lipped, Johnny Babineaux and I admire that. But you've sinned and have to atone. You cannot attend church services for 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself."
Johnny walks back to his pew, and his friend Jack slides over and whispers, "What'd you get?"
Johnny replies, "Four months vacation and five good leads..."

whatismyname

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been 20 years since my last confession. I told a joke about confession on boards, and I stuck my tongue out at my sister and I told a lie.

The_Valeyard

Can we throw this into the Christianity forum?

Nodin

Fleawuss wrote: »

In keeping with the religious surveying that goes on let's find out how many of you went to confession for Christmas or indeed at all during 2015? It's one of the sacraments and essential for practicing Catholics to admit their sins to a priest so he can give them gods forgiveness. According to them anyway.
I haven't been to confession in 40 years at least and I think the idea of it is just silly. But let's find out all the AH posters who have gone for Christmas or last year. If you want to tell us your sins or "Penance" all the better.

Haven't been since the mid 1980's. Actually, early 1980's.

ASoberThought

Get out there, say 7 hail Mary's and don't be annoying me.

Sunnyisland

Years and years since I have been.

Actually if you think about it its a bit mad now isn't it...

Ruu

Not since secondary school.

theteal

My last confession was my first confession. It felt like a messed up process back then as a child. I actually forgot it was a thing until I came across this thread.

meeeeh

It's a bit redundant since shrinks exist.

Fleawuss

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Can we throw this into the Christianity forum?

If AH can be surveyed about Mass it can be surveyed about confession. If one has to move, move the other too.

syklops

Not since my first confession. My first confession was the day the Bishop Eamon Casey story got told in the newspapers. He is the inspiration for Bishop Brennan in Fr Ted. Having a son! In America!

When I knock up a divorcee I might go to confession to brag about it.

Aidric

It's funny, we were having a conversation about this over Christmas with the extended family and everyone agreed that they have been giving the same stock sins to the priest since they first went to confession as a child.

It's more of a tick the box exercise than anything based on reality. I doubt any bloke is strolling in and saying he just watched the 2015 compilation of best double pen videos on xvideos while contemplating the moral struggle of the 4th commandment.

Fleawuss

Last of the confession then, anyone for the last of the Christmas confession??

BenedrylPete

Bless me father for i have sinned.

I have lusted after women and abused myself.

It happened at the following hours.


Pulls out laptop. Settings. History.

Starting 1998.

Paddy Samurai

Fleawuss wrote: »

In keeping with the religious surveying that goes on let's find out how many of you went to confession for Christmas or indeed at all during 2015? It's one of the sacraments and essential for practicing Catholics to admit their sins to a priest so he can give them gods forgiveness. According to them anyway.
I haven't been to confession in 40 years at least and I think the idea of it is just silly. But let's find out all the AH posters who have gone for Christmas or last year. If you want to tell us your sins or "Penance" all the better.

Thought about it seriously this year ,for the first time in 20 years,but in the end I did'nt go.

cowboyBuilder

Confession ??

Really .. <insert bannable remarks about RCC here >

Ally Dick

Drunk vagrant staggers into a church and heads straight for the confession box. Priest spots him and goes over to the door and knocks on it. The reply he gets is "There's no point in knocking. There's no toilet roll in this one either"

The Raptor

AppleBottle wrote: »

I haven't been to confession since primary school when we would have a priest come in and we would have to confess our sins to them.

Our made up sins because we never had any sins to say.

Please tell me I wasn't the only person to make up lies in the confession box.

This is why i won't go back, what am confessing? I skipped a red light father.

MaryAntoinette

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've never been in a box.

With your last trip to vegas where you preferred riding a traversin that is obvious.

KungPao

I realised the insanity of religion at my first confession.

I remember asking my teacher what to say...and her: just say some bad things you have done. So, "eh, I was rude to me ma" etc to some aul fella.

Such utter bull****.

The aul wan was super pissed off at me when I was around 9 (1990) and told her I'd had enough and no more mass for me. She actually said that the Devil was making me do these things. lol.

Diamond Doll

The Raptor wrote: »

Our made up sins because we never had any sins to say.

Please tell me I wasn't the only person to make up lies in the confession box.

This is why i won't go back, what am confessing? I skipped a red light father.

I remember our teacher writing up "suggested" appropriate sins on the blackboard for us to choose from.

And she made us tell her all the sins we were planning on confessing in advance. If they were TOO bold, we had to think up milder ones.

topmanamillion

I can't remember the last time I was at confession but if it was within the last 10 years I'd be very surprised.

mansize

Jayzus it's a wonder this wasn't moved into Christianity....

R.D. aka MR.D

Last time was primary school.

I don't know anybody that still goes, even my granny stopped about 20 years ago.

I mean, i would love to hear how people justify going and confessing their sins and asking for absolution from an employee of an organisation that raped, beat and humiliated 1000's of children in Ireland and many more all over the world.
Nothing about belief or whatever but how would you justify that from a logical standpoint?

I mean 'i cheated at a board game' was the worst I ever told them and that was even a lie because I didn't have any good ones. So I lied but I suppose i should have seized the opportunity to confess that the next time around!

Sierra 117

I haven't been to confession in well over ten years. Same for mass, too.

BenedrylPete

Didnt go.

Felt no need as god is supposedly the creator of the universe and therefore has at the very least first person playback.

And email too, so he could easily monitor me, or even outsource some eworker in the philippines to get proof.

When hes not busy flooding the place that is.

smash

I haven't been to confession since I was in school.

eviltwin

Last went in primary school. Don't think it's a healthy thing to do tbh. If you do something wrong fix it or make amends. A few hail Mary's don't cut it.

Liamario

Like a lot of you, I was forced to go. It was all a bit ridiculous was something I felt at a very young age. I made stuff up more than anything, as I was genuinely a good kid. When you think about how much power the church had only a couple of decades ago, it makes you sick. They still have too much.

KungPao wrote: »

I realised the insanity of religion at my first confession.

I remember asking my teacher what to say...and her: just say some bad things you have done. So, "eh, I was rude to me ma" etc to some aul fella.

Such utter bull****.

The aul wan was super pissed off at me when I was around 9 (1990) and told her I'd had enough and no more mass for me. She actually said that the Devil was making me do these things. lol.

What does she say about it all now?

Rubberlegs

I haven't been to confession since I was about 12, so 30 years give or take. I don't go to Mass either, and if I have to be in church for a funeral, I don't go up for communion. I don't have time for any of it, to be honest.

The_Valeyard

Its 2016!!!

You should really be discussing whether you will be going to confession for Holy week and Easter .

Shenshen

First and last time was when they made us go in primary school.
But then, why would I go to confession if I don't go to church either?

AnonoBoy

I made my first confession at 7 or 8 years old.

That was the only time I ever went.

GLaDOS

At least 14 years since I last went I reckon

rainbow kirby

Was made to go once in secondary school, the priest shouted at me when I said I hadn't been to Mass in 3 years so I just walked out then. That was somewhere around 1999...

Ally Dick

I go once a year. I get something out of it to be honest. Once I have offloaded my sins, and have received my penance, I tend to feel a bit better about where I'm headed

kjl

I like to go to confession and give them really sexy stories claiming it was sin because I wasn't married to the girl. I love hearing the priest sweat it out.

scdublin

No, haven't been since primary school and won't be going again. The way I see it, if you're religious and have your own relationship with god, you can confess your sins to him directly through prayer etc.

Mesrine65

& for your penance you shall perform seven Male Hairys :eek:

Aglomerado

Mesrine65 wrote: »

& for your penance you shall perform seven Male Hairys :eek:

My kind of penance!!

I haven't been since I was 16 in 1993 when an aul' bollix of a priest in Ennis Friary gave out to me for missing mass, swearing at my parents and various other anodyne sins.

He deemed the rosary decades he gave me to be a "generous penance".

gobshyte.

I never went again. He should see my black soul now!!!

eigrod

kjl wrote: »

I like to go to confession and give them really sexy stories claiming it was sin because I wasn't married to the girl. I love hearing the priest sweat it out.

I suspect most priests will probably be thinking to themselves "tsk, you haven't lived...if only you knew what I've been up to".

Agricola

Must read up on the origins of it. Seems to me like something that was dreamed up in the early church by some power mad clergyman who got off on hearing the juicy carry on of his congregation.

IamtheWalrus

I recently heard my parents talking about there being no confession sessions in the local church anymore. They both agreed that, in hindsight, it was a bit silly. I was thinking that two rational people are able to see how silly it is but aren't able to go a few steps further and see how silly it all is. That's not an attack on religion, more a comment on the human condition.