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Do you go face to face, or go behind the screen when confessing?  

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Guest Rick777

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='Mar 21 2006, 04:58 PM']i freak out when people can see my feet because hte curtain is not long enough!!!!  :lol:
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lol. What about when everybody in line can hear you confessing your sins? That kills me! :maddest:

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Extra ecclesiam nulla salus

that is no fun either. i always go to the end of the line if that happens.

i also do not like when someone is in the other side of the confessional, and can here things.

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lol, that reminds me! i went to confession to an old priest that was *very* hard of hearing! lol, the confessional was right off of the chapel that mass was about to be said in. Monsignor kept asking me to speak up . . . but i was already shouting! it was *SO* embarassing walking out of there!!! *grins wryly* at least i know i had to be sorry for my sins to go through *that* confession! ;)

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missionseeker

[quote name='Rick777' date='Mar 21 2006, 07:00 PM']lol. What about when everybody in line can hear you confessing your sins? That kills me! :maddest:
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One time, at EWTN, all their preists were on reatreat and the guy they hed was almost deaf and he was yelling at me 'cuz he couldn't hear me and telling me I didn't know how to go to confesion. I haven't gone to confession at EWTN since....

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i don't really care, but i guess i usually do go face-to-face.

its funny tho, hearing people's comments about their reasons for one over the other. you'd think with my well developed catholic guilt complex, that i would be paranoid about what the priest would think of me but i have honestly never had that problem. :idontknow:

i've heard too many priests explain how they honestly don't remember a single thing AND how they've heard everything before (ie. people way "badder" than me).

old confessionals are fun EXCEPT The ones with no lightbulbs. the darkness is a little scary. you can't see the angels in the dark :mellow:

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  • 3 weeks later...

I go face to face.....
it keeps me humble(er)

I figure, I should always be able to fess up to anything I did. And if I want to be in politics it means that there may be times that I have to be held accountable face to face to the public, the media or someone else. So I try not to be afraid and go in and tell everything....even if it really really hurts to say it face to face.
Besides I find that I have a better examination of conscience if I go face to face than behind a screen.... I think because I take the sacrement more seriously.

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missionarybelle

When I made my first confession, my mom wanted me to never be afraid of going face to face so until about 2 years ago, I didn't even know "behind the screen" existed! I've still never been with the screen because It's just a habit and it would be strange.

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My first confession was face to face. It's been behind the screen ever since, and at the church I usually go to confession at, face to face isnt even an option.

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crazymaine catholic

while face to face keeps me more humble, i prefer the screen. i find i can be a bit more prayerful and not so nervous and guilty feeling if i'm by myself.

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Keyser Soze

I dunno, call me old fashoned or whatever but I like to hang up-side-down from the ceiling with the priest directly below me when I confess my sins.

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