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Note: I'm not a stickler for Rite 1--I know, I know--but on those rare occasions in my own parish when there is no explicit confession I get very nervous.

I'm not a stickler for Rite 1 either -- it's the '28 I prefer. *\;-)

But whether it's Morning Prayer (Matins) or Mass (Holy Communion) the Confession is *always* there. (No Absolution if a priest isn't celebrating, of course.) I don't have any recollection of the Confession ever being skipped.

"I don't have any recollection of the Confession ever being skipped."

As I think I have mentioned before, we have been in 'search committee mode'. Our interim was a raging revisionist. Most of his homilies were efforts to remind us how unreliable the Bible supposedlly is. So, unbelieveably there have been times when confession was absent. Whom do we complain to? Certainly not our Bishop.(Oklahoma)

We have now hired a rector who begins (providentially, I hope) on Pentecost Sunday. But the revisionist camp is very strong and we have near open war between them and the head of our parish school. Interesting times indeed. I covet your prayers. I have stood my ground thus far, largely because I have three kids in the school and have been very, very involved in school and parish. But things are heating up and it may be approaching the time to leave, though that would break my heart.