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.
Red Pepper wrote: » Kids have it bad enough with their "original" sin
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.
Sunglasses Ron wrote: » This isn't the 50's. Kids don't learn about original sin, burning in hell, and anything else remotely dogmatic.
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??
Femme_Fatale wrote: » We certainly were fed it in the 80s/90s; no need to go as far back as the 50s at all.
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.
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.
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!!!
Galwayguy35 wrote: » 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?
eyescreamcone wrote: » I do like Catholics - plenty of them. However, I don't like irrational sperstitutious beliefs of any kind. My rule in real life is not to bring up the subject of religion but if someone asks me my opinion...game on!
Galwayguy35 wrote: » Funny enough the subject of religion never comes up in real life for me whether down the pub or elsewhere but if it did and someone called me a "gullible fairytale-est" , they would be someone I would have no interest in having further conversation with.
Amazingfun wrote: » 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.
Amazingfun wrote: » It's actually a good thing for the soul, more ought to try it.
Czarcasm wrote: » Well that would only apply to people who believe in the sacrament of confession? It wouldn't apply to an atheist for example. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
Ghost Buster wrote: » Thousands of years you say, . Are you sure?
Amazingfun wrote: » lol, how do you know? Maybe it would be Ps: You left out the part where I talked about Tradition.
eviltimeban wrote: » As in, "it doesn't really matter what bad things I do, as I can always get confession and be absolved"? Wa-hey! Time for some murder, rape, and child abuse! I can always go to confession, right? And no longer be accountable because in the eyes of God I'll be pure again? Few hail marys and that? Grand. That's the whole problem right there. "We've got these 10 commandments, right; you CANNOT break them. But if you do, you can go to confession and that'll cancel it out and everything will go back to normal". C-razy.
