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Do you remember your first Confession?

  • 01-08-2011 09:31PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭


    ..if so what was it?!

    Was just having a laugh with the housemates last night(none of which are catholic and were wondering what it was all about!) I told them I remembered very clearly that I told the priest at my first confession

    1. I bit my sister on the arm!
    2. I licked sugar out of the sugar bowl
    3. I crawled under the Christmas tree causing it to fall down!

    I got 2 Hail Marys and an Our Father, I thought id gotten away lightly at the time :pac:


Comments

  • Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You definitely got away lightly....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    Yeah, I had terrible lockjaw after it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭spirit_77


    i always made up a load of bull when i was made go to confession for some reason


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Musicman2006


    Remember it??! My hole is still banjaxed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭chloek


    I can remember the day but not what I told the priest.
    even when I got older going to confession always made me nervous. I don't go now,I have to many sins to tell him.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Whats written on my T shirt?

    OROURKEDA SAYS :"OH GREAT ANOTHER CHURCH THREAD"

    I have a vague memory of mine but clearly remember the 'sins' I confessed as they were mass produced for my entire class.
    I told lies
    I stole
    I was rude to my parents
    blah blah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭JamJamJamJam


    I always made up my sins because I didn't really have a whole pile to confess. If I was going to confession now the priest would self-combust.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,461 ✭✭✭dee.


    I lied at my first confession which kind of defeated the purpose of it! I couldn't actually think of anything bad I had done around that time (I was a good kid, other than my lie of course!) so I made up some story about hitting my younger brother because he wouldn't give me a CD I wanted. I was terrfied of going in and I was sure the priest was evil and going to lock me in there, he gave off really odd vibes!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    My teacher said that we could just say that we had sinned, but didn't have to specify what exactly.

    So that's what I did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭chloek


    This thread has reminded me the teachers told us what to say.
    told lies
    cheeky to parents
    fought with brother or sisters.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I just made up stuff anytime I had to go to confession, I don't believe in god, nor have I ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Abi wrote: »
    I just made up stuff anytime I had to go to confession, I don't believe in god, nor have I ever.


    he knows you lied ya know, going to hell for that one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I expect sins these days include joy-riding in stolen cars, arson, beating up old ladies and ripping ATMs out of the wall with JCBs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭chloek


    Abi wrote: »
    I just made up stuff anytime I had to go to confession, I don't believe in god, nor have I ever.

    I think we are all guilty of that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭strokemyclover


    I lied to the priest about breaking a window around the corner from me.

    They gave you a script you had to say before and after the confession. I forgot a lot of what I was supposed to say, the priest got frustrated trying to help me along with it and told me literally to "fcuk off" and come back when I learned it properly.

    Cheers god!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    krudler wrote: »
    he knows you lied ya know, going to hell for that one


    I'm shitting bricks :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    I was told that I'd go to hell if I told anyone about it..............<rubs bum>.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Abi wrote: »
    I'm shitting bricks :pac:

    Its a common after effect of many peoples dealings with the Catholic church as children. Modern surgery should sort ya out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    i told the priest i played with my willie so he sat me on his knee and did it for me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    spirit_77 wrote: »
    i always made up a load of bull when i was made go to confession for some reason
    i think we all did


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I can't remember what I said but remember my first confession was at the ceremony of light. I tended to say the same thing and make up some, others I didn't and told the truth sometimes but for the most part just had something to say for the sake of going to confession. Was made go for a few years afterwards but gave up cause as soon as I am out of it, I start swearing, so no point in going anymore, I'll sin in that way anyway. Even as a child I didn't really sin or sin much just went to confession to please the parents. Now I just don't bother cause I feel I can redeem myself of my sins by just praying in my own time in my own head without saying confession. Whether God takes away the sins or a priest should it matter. I believe in God but still doubt he exists!
    So Confession is just pointless!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    I said a bad word Father, you know the one worse than FECK. The one that rhymes with DUCK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    I didn't feel comfortable telling the priest anything so I said "sorry for swearing"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Flip the script....

    Father is there something you'd like to tell me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭AnamGlas


    My first confession was a bit embarassing :o

    Our class was brought down to the church during school to practise confession. There we were anyway lined along the bench waiting for our turn. My turn comes and I enter. I start whispering, because I couldn't hear a sound when anyone else was there, and I'm wondering why the priest won't talk to me. Stayed there for a while so it wouldn't look suspicious and left, summoning the next person and walking off to do my "penance".

    This is the first time I've talked about it actually :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    It's hard to remember but I do know it was all made up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 922 ✭✭✭aoife_bennett


    Mine:
    -I think my Mammy's top is ugly
    -I lied to my Daddy when he asked if I'd my homework done
    -I don't like my brother, he was meant to be a girl.

    My mother nearly cried laughing when I told her all my sins in the car. . . She wasn't too fond of the first one though.


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