Confession?

[Kayte Postle]

Currently I am not Catholic (I won't be for another year). So often when I am at Mass or Adoration I feel very distant from the Lord because of how overwhelming my sin is (current and past). It almost feels like a physical barrier. I understand that this distance is the reason for Grace, and we can be reconciled with God through Christ and the sacrament of confession/reconciliation.
I know that since I am not Catholic the priest cannot not give me absolution, and isn't that the whole point of confession? Is there any point in me going to confession before I am Catholic? Am I going to have to deal with this distance until then?

[cappie]

Absolution is a juridic act of the Church. A priest may only absolve in those circumstances where the Church allows him to do so.

Can. 844 §1. Catholic ministers administer the sacraments licitly to Catholic members of the Christian faithful alone, who likewise receive them licitly from Catholic ministers alone, without prejudice to the prescripts of §§2, 3, and 4 of this canon, and ⇒ can. 861, §2.
[note: c. 861 deals with Baptism]

§2. Whenever necessity requires it or true spiritual advantage suggests it, and provided that danger of error or of indifferentism is avoided, the Christian faithful for whom it is physically or morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister are permitted to receive the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick from non-Catholic ministers in whose Churches these sacraments are valid.

§3. Catholic ministers administer the sacraments of penance, Eucharist, and anointing of the sick licitly to members of Eastern Churches which do not have full communion with the Catholic Church if they seek such on their own accord and are properly disposed. This is also valid for members of other Churches which in the judgment of the Apostolic See are in the same condition in regard to the sacraments as these Eastern Churches.

§4. If the danger of death is present or if, in the judgment of the diocesan bishop or conference of bishops, some other grave necessity urges it, Catholic ministers administer these same sacraments licitly also to other Christians not having full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and who seek such on their own accord, provided that they manifest Catholic faith in respect to these sacraments and are properly disposed.