If a person is incapable of going to Confession, or is sincerely unaware of Jesus' gracious gift of sacramental Confession ("Receive the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." John 20:22-23), such a person can till obtain mercy from Christ. God is everywhere. I think we all know that.
What you say and what your 'brethern say seems to be two different things...
These bogus "confession" practices (confessing and praying directly to Jesus) don't have the safeguards (or the validity) of the Real Thing.
It doesn't ... that's just the point. It's as bogus as igniting them on a barbeque. Only a priest can forgive sins - in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
God can not, or will not forgive your sins unless you go thru a Catholic priest...This of course is heresy...But as long as you confess to Jesus, you're covered...
It's interesting how that the Catholic church has convinced it's members that only the priestly class can understand the scriptures...They will pick out a verse, or two, write untold numbers of pages, chapters and books on the verse as to what it means, and then convince you that their assertation is somehow biblical...And it then gets repeated as actual truth...
Millions up millions of Protestant Christians who actually read the scriptures, precept upon precept, line upon line, do, and have known better to fall for the tactics of your church...
If you want salvation, you go directly to God...If you want forgiveness of your sins, you go directly to God, the giver of these 'gifts'...
I’ve never gone to confession and I KNOW my sins are forgiven because God tells me so through His Word. If I confess my sins to Jesus Christ, I AM forgiven. I don’t need to go to a priest for that to happen. I do confess to a dear friend or two but that’s it besides Jesus (and my husband, of course, who knows my sins before I need to confess them—smile).