Posted on 09/18/2005 5:07:46 AM PDT by Desdemona
I was looking for Confession times on the archdiocesan website and found this. This is something to save.
Rigali was our archbishop at the time this was written, so I left the attribution to him as archbishop.
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My brain is on hold this morning.
Excellent examination of conscience. I've saved it; thank-you!
From the Maronite Penance Service, this is the opening hymn:
I yearn for your pardon, O Lord,
Give me tears to repent in this season of Advent
Lord have mercy.
I beg for your favors, O Lord,
For your mercy I thirst, for your kindness and love.
Lord have mercy.
Against you, O Lord, I have sinned,
Hear the cry of my voice, turn your ear to my prayer.
Lord forgive me.
O wash me O Lord from my guilt
Purify me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Lord forgive me.
Another excellent resource is the following which has been given an imprimatur.
This is excellent. Thank you.
Kuppala kwestions:
What happened to, "Bless me father, for I have sinned"?
Looking at the Latin Act of Contrition, it seems to say,"
Oh my God, I repent of all my sins with all my heart, not only because they have earned me punishment under Your just laws, but because they all offend You, who are the sum of all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Your Grace, to sin no more (de cetero me non peccaturum), and to flee the near occasion of sin.
Don't it seem like the English one here is a little...wimpy?
I still do the "Bless me father..." part. It's really rather individual once you are there. I actually had a priest stop me once when I launched into that before the Sign of the Cross.
The Act of Contrition I have memorized is the same up to "I firmly resolve..." There it is "I firmly resolve with the help of thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin."
"It's really rather individual once you are there. I actually had a priest stop me once when I launched into that before the Sign of the Cross."
You started to say, "Bless me father, for I have sinned," and he stopped you?
What did he say?
No kidding! What I was looking for was a parish that had Confession before Mass, because the last few Saturdays, I've had work commitments and family obligations during the time Confession is at my own parish. I found one and when I got there, there was no priest in the confessional.
"Hold on. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen." He was an older priest and had no qualms about it.
Oh, I see. It was because things were out of sequence.
That's sad. Our priest had to add another half-hour to confession time because people were being turned away during regular hours.
And this is because he considers confession that important and encourages people to come in.
What's interesting is that there are always lines for Confession on Saturday afternoon. On Good Friday, extra hours were added after the service - with all five confessionals - because the lines were so long beforehand. Why we can't have confession in the hour(s) between and before Masses, I don't understand. That's part of the job of priest - to hear confession
At least most parishes have published times. One of the wealthier parishes (I know both of the priests there, too) doesn't even have published times.
This sounds like an opportunity for a crusade....
It's a relief to hear the Word of God preached and not "God is doing a new thing" (with regards to Gene Robinson, et al) and various heterodoxies. Believe me, there were many thrown at us over the years. Now that we've left, it's like learning to breath again...we were stifled for so many years.
Welcome, welcome.
Thank you. We have an excellent catechist for which we are grateful. It's kind of strange being on the receiving end since I was a lay catechist in the Episcopal Church for years.
#19 hasa link to multiple examples of Examination of Conscience -- parents, children, etc.
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