Confession

[mamalove]

I prefer behind the screen myself. I've done both and I feel equally liberated both ways. I know in the sacrament you are always confessing your sins to God and seeking reconciliation from him and not the priest. But feel more like I'm confessing to God when the priest is behind the screen than if I am sitting right in front of him. For me, there's more of a mystical sense that gives me greater peace.

[Philippe]

i dont remember doing behind the screen cause at my Parish we dont have an actual Church building yet so we dont have confessionals so we are forced to do face to face i would prefer behind the screen however

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
4/25 - Third Sunday of Easter

Face to face seems too much like a conversation for me to keep my confession Christ-centered. I become too focused on the confessor's advice, &c. Behind the screen, I'm able to close my eyes and confess to the Father; that'd be kinda creepy if I'm sitting in front of the priest.

[voiciblanche]

I can't remember the last time I confessed face-to-face; behind the screen is just what I do, kind of a habit like Jacob said. I'd be jittery face-to-face and probably wouldn't make a very good Confession.

[mammo]

i always do it face to face. i have tried confessing behind a screen a while ago and it didn't feel...right, i guess.

[ilovechrist]

i mix it up, it depends what Priest it is, if i don't know him then i'll go behind a screen.. but if i know him well, then i'll be brave and stand face to face

[Rebirth flame]

i must agree with mammo. face to face is more personal. i have never been able to go behind the screen because the confession just doesn't feel like it has the same fulfillment for me. i know it does, but it doesn't seem like it to me. As somebody said earlier, face to face forces more humbleness of us, and i think that that humbleness helps me to really be repentant. I know what i've done is wrong, so i don't mind telling my sins to a priest face to face. going behind a screen always has seemed like a cop-out to me in my life. By this i do not mean that anyone who confesses behind the screen is unrepentant or anything. But, for me in my personal pilgrimage, it just doesn't feel like it's the "right" way to confess (if there is any sort of differentiation between right and wrong )

take care and God Bless you all!!!
rebirthflame