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Did you go to confession this Christmas? During 2015?

  • 28-12-2015 09:29PM
    #1
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've never been in a box.


  • #3
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭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:


  • #4
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I've never been in a box.

    With a username like yours I can well believe it.


  • #5
    ponzook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭ponzook


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


  • #6
    AppleBottle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


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


  • #8
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Last time I went to confession was Christmas Eve 2004.


  • #9
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭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..."


  • #10
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Can we throw this into the Christianity forum?


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  • #12
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    ASoberThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭ASoberThought


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


  • #14
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Years and years since I have been.

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


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Not since secondary school.


  • #16
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    It's a bit redundant since shrinks exist.


  • #18
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


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


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  • #22
    BenedrylPete
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 178 ✭✭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.


  • #23
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Confession ??

    Really .. <insert bannable remarks about RCC here >


  • #25
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭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"


  • #26
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    MaryAntoinette
    Site Banned Posts: 137 ✭✭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.


  • #28
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Diamond Doll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


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


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