Thanks for the laugh with the Seinfeld clip! Did you ever read "Angela's Ashes"? I remember the author commented that as a kid he said the same thing every week when he went to confession. I related to that! And I relate to your comments about not going, and confessing to God independently. Fun article!
Marie, I'm glad you get a kick out of my Confession confessions! I have not read "Angela's Ashes." I heard it was depressing and so I didn't read it. That's funny however what the author said about confession. It reminds me, once on Catholic Radio I heard a caller saying to the priest: "I just keep committing the same sins over and over." And the priest said, "What, you want to branch out into different sins?" LOLOLOL I am still laughing over that!
Thanks!! LOL I used to write that Buzz column for The Buffalo News and I am pretty sure that made it into Buzz. Those priests on Catholic Radio are so great.
Amazing stories, thanks so much. What's funny is that you were so devout and playing the organ in mass but you WERE in violation of the rules during those years by skipping confession. At the very least, everyone must go during Holy Week, I heard.
I have my own dilemmas. My family stopped attending mass when I was 8 years old, right after my first communion. So I was never confirmed. And I don't regularly attend mass or take communion because I know I'm way out of compliance, for basic and complex reasons.
My research in the Catechism of the Catholic Church suggests I should not just go to confession after all these decades without being confirmed. And this might require going through RCIA.
And I'm guilty of other mortal sins I can't easily undo. I'm waiting for a sign. Meanwhile, your confession stories are giving me distant inspiration to do SOMETHING about my dilemmas.
Continuing my comment ...About not having been confirmed, I am sure this is not a rare situation. Any priest you talked to about it would help you through it. I would be surprised if you had to go through RCIA. They've got to hear this story all the time!
Dear Diary, my heart goes out to you ... this is all so confusing. I was not devout when I was playing the organ -- not only was I not going to confession, my life was way out of whack. However, one thing that occurs to me, you can definitely go to confession without being confirmed. You make your first confession years before you are confirmed. I was in first or second grade when I was pushed unceremoniously into that confessional. I say go and let the chips fall where they may. Whatever the trouble is, put it on someone else's plate.
Thanks for the laugh with the Seinfeld clip! Did you ever read "Angela's Ashes"? I remember the author commented that as a kid he said the same thing every week when he went to confession. I related to that! And I relate to your comments about not going, and confessing to God independently. Fun article!
Marie, I'm glad you get a kick out of my Confession confessions! I have not read "Angela's Ashes." I heard it was depressing and so I didn't read it. That's funny however what the author said about confession. It reminds me, once on Catholic Radio I heard a caller saying to the priest: "I just keep committing the same sins over and over." And the priest said, "What, you want to branch out into different sins?" LOLOLOL I am still laughing over that!
That's a good one!
Thanks!! LOL I used to write that Buzz column for The Buffalo News and I am pretty sure that made it into Buzz. Those priests on Catholic Radio are so great.
Amazing stories, thanks so much. What's funny is that you were so devout and playing the organ in mass but you WERE in violation of the rules during those years by skipping confession. At the very least, everyone must go during Holy Week, I heard.
I have my own dilemmas. My family stopped attending mass when I was 8 years old, right after my first communion. So I was never confirmed. And I don't regularly attend mass or take communion because I know I'm way out of compliance, for basic and complex reasons.
My research in the Catechism of the Catholic Church suggests I should not just go to confession after all these decades without being confirmed. And this might require going through RCIA.
And I'm guilty of other mortal sins I can't easily undo. I'm waiting for a sign. Meanwhile, your confession stories are giving me distant inspiration to do SOMETHING about my dilemmas.
Continuing my comment ...About not having been confirmed, I am sure this is not a rare situation. Any priest you talked to about it would help you through it. I would be surprised if you had to go through RCIA. They've got to hear this story all the time!
Dear Diary, my heart goes out to you ... this is all so confusing. I was not devout when I was playing the organ -- not only was I not going to confession, my life was way out of whack. However, one thing that occurs to me, you can definitely go to confession without being confirmed. You make your first confession years before you are confirmed. I was in first or second grade when I was pushed unceremoniously into that confessional. I say go and let the chips fall where they may. Whatever the trouble is, put it on someone else's plate.