Today is Saturday. If you haven’t been to confession yet this Lent—GO!
I always thought it was pious talk when teachers would say that priests don’t remember what they hear in confession.
Whether it’s the Holy Spirit at work, or the fact that very, very few confessions are interesting, or Old-Timers’ Disease, I’ve found that it’s true.
There are a couple of confessions—from long ago and far away—that I have used in homilies. One old man came in and said: “I missed Mass one Sunday.” I said: “Did you have a good reason?” He said: “We had a blizzard and you didn’t have Mass.”
Thank you for imparting a touch of humor to the discussion.
I admit, I’m such a coward, I wait until we have a visiting priest before I go to confession!