doe-jo Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) The best thing a priest ever told me in the confessional was that he would pray and make sacrifices for me. I know it's not that big of a deal but it was music to my ears because I heard it during one of the worse times of my life. . It was as if the weight of the world was taken off my shoulders. This was a month ago too. Anyway, I have a bad one. I went to a rosary rally at a college a year ago. I confessed to the priest about prank calling protestant prayer hot lines. I told him that my friends and I were bored at 1:00 am and was flipping through the channel and just happened to stumble upon this protestant channel. They were taking in prayers and all. I don't know what got into our heads but we thought it'd be funny to prank call them. So we called them and told them to pray for the souls in purgatory, for all the priests and more vocations to the priesthood. When I confessed that to the priest, he just started busting up for about 5 minutes. I mean, he couldnt even speak. Then he just told me that it wasnt really a sin because we didnt intend to harm anyone. He said its like prank calling a friend. But I thought it was uncharitable on our part. I was in there for about 15 minutes because he couldnt stop laughing. Edited October 28, 2008 by doe-jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 [quote name='doe-jo' post='1687897' date='Oct 28 2008, 01:52 AM']The best thing a priest ever told me in the confessional was that he would pray and make sacrifices for me. I know it's not that big of a deal but it was music to my ears because I heard it during one of the worse times of my life. . It was as if the weight of the world was taken off my shoulders. This was a month ago too. Anyway, I have a bad one. I went to a rosary rally at a college a year ago. I confessed to the priest about prank calling protestant prayer hot lines. I told him that my friends and I were bored at 1:00 am and was flipping through the channel and just happened to stumble upon this protestant channel. They were taking in prayers and all. I don't know what got into our heads but we thought it'd be funny to prank call them. So we called them and told them to pray for the souls in purgatory, for all the priests and more vocations to the priesthood. When I confessed that to the priest, he just started busting up for about 5 minutes. I mean, he couldnt even speak. Then he just told me that it wasnt really a sin because we didnt intend to harm anyone. He said its like prank calling a friend. But I thought it was uncharitable on our part. I was in there for about 15 minutes because he couldnt stop laughing.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin86 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 [quote name='doe-jo' post='1687897' date='Oct 28 2008, 02:52 PM']The best thing a priest ever told me in the confessional was that he would pray and make sacrifices for me. I know it's not that big of a deal but it was music to my ears because I heard it during one of the worse times of my life. . It was as if the weight of the world was taken off my shoulders. This was a month ago too. Anyway, I have a bad one. I went to a rosary rally at a college a year ago. I confessed to the priest about prank calling protestant prayer hot lines. I told him that my friends and I were bored at 1:00 am and was flipping through the channel and just happened to stumble upon this protestant channel. They were taking in prayers and all. I don't know what got into our heads but we thought it'd be funny to prank call them. So we called them and told them to pray for the souls in purgatory, for all the priests and more vocations to the priesthood. When I confessed that to the priest, he just started busting up for about 5 minutes. I mean, he couldnt even speak. Then he just told me that it wasnt really a sin because we didnt intend to harm anyone. He said its like prank calling a friend. But I thought it was uncharitable on our part. I was in there for about 15 minutes because he couldnt stop laughing.[/quote] Well, that is pretty funny. Is peeing on a Jack Chick tract a sin? I mean, someone did just leave it on top of the urinal at Wal Mart for me. Really, what was I supposed to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Kinda funny story. My uncle, who isn't Catholic, showed up late to my aunt's (his sister) wedding because he was on call at the hospital. So he just sat towards the back, evidently by the confessionals. Another man came in a couple of minutes later and sat down by him and smiled at my uncle, so my uncle just smiled back. After another minute or so, the man turned to my uncle and said "It's your turn." My uncle was like "my turn for what?". He didn't know what was going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 My brother Anthony and I were traveling one Saturday, and stopped at a Catholic Church for Confession. We took note the sign outside mentioned Confession from 3 - 4 p.m., and we were right on time. No one was around. We weren't sure how it was done there, but I noticed they had the traditional confessionals, so I told my brother,"probably the priest is in there waiting." There were no litte red or green lights on this confessional. So, my brother went in first. He was in there for a while, so I figured he was confessing. He came out and told me, "He's a quiet one...I confessed all my sins but didn't hear a peep from him." We then heard the door of the church and saw a priest walking down the aisle headed for the confessional! I had to stifle my laughter at my brother confessing to "nobody!" My brother just looked at me sheepishly and said, "Well, at least Jesus is going to hear this twice," as he walked into the confessional to do it one more time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) oops. double post! Edited October 28, 2008 by dominicansoul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
let_go_let_God Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I have a recent story, many of you know that I was involved in a house fire this summer. After the fire I was very shaken disturbed and didn't want to really have a hands on approach to my faith anylonger. I still felt that I had faith but that it wasn't tangable, it wasn't as indepth as I wanted to be and I was doubting my own faith greatly to the point where it felt like the only truth I adhered to was that the Eucharist was truly the Body and Blood of Christ. Well it was about a month and an half after the fire and I told my mom I really needed to go to Confession. It was my own way of kinda telling her that you know what something is wrong with me. Whenever I acknowledge somethings wrong I go to the confessional. She smiled and told me that it was her week to go as well. So she got to the confessional before I did which was fine because I knew mine was going to take a while and she needed to get the music ready for Sunday mass. (Confessions at home are a half hour before mass) We had recently gotten a new priest to the parish and I was thinking how is this going to work out. Well I get into the confessional and it hits me, I know this voice and this isn't the new parish priest. This is the newly ordained priest who had just been ordained the previous weekend and most likely the first confessions he's ever done. So I'm confessing everything about the fire, the feelings I felt resulting from the fire, and everything I'd done wrong since the fire including my lack of faith. The priest only dropped his Bible or whatever he was holding twice. After he asked me a few questions and stabled his voice he spoke with an athority that I had never heard a priest speak with in any confession. He actually made me cry in confession with joy and peace. The biggest thing was that he quoted JPII "Do not be afraid" but said a lot more things that were just as big and were straight from him. I went back to our music area for mass and my jaw was still on the floor. My mom joked, "that good?" I related that the priest wasn't our parish priest but the newly ordained priest whose ordination we went to. She was in as much disbelief as I was but we both had amazing confession experiences that day. God bless- LGLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPCthegreat Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 well i locked a jehovah witness out side of my house telling them I'd be there in a minute, (did you know they will wait for hours for you to answer the door again even if its pooring rain). when i confessed to my priest he laughed and gave my a hi-five for the orignality. then told me to call him over next time they come. then i had to do 1 hail mary and 1 our Farther Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philothea Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Man, you guys are way more creative than I am!! Feeling a little envious here. [i]I will not try to do something amusing just for confession... I will not try to do something amusing just for confession... I will not try... [/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jevitt Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Has anyone ever noticed that the almost universal penance is "Pray a Hail Mary." "Pray 3 Hail Mary's." or "Pray 1 Our Father and 1 Hail Mary" Well, my girlfriend did this thing with her church one day where she gained a plenary indulgence, however her priest didn't have time to hear everyone's confession that morning, so he asked my girlfriend the last time she had been to confession, and then told her that since she had gone a week ago as long as she wasn't in a state of mortal sin she was good. So anyway, my girlfriend was a little uncomforatable with what he said and wanted to go to confession anyway. So that night I picked her up at her house to come back to my house for dinner, and we stopped at a church for her to go to confession (I had gone on the way to her house!) But I told her "You know, you're probably going to get a penance like 'Pray 3 Hail Mary's'." Well, of course THAT was her penance! Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 [quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1687362' date='Oct 27 2008, 02:57 PM']The time I was so embarrassed I confessed behind the screen to our local parish priest that me and some friends raided the church kitchen during youth group. We got into the refrigerator and to our delight, someone left some booze in there. I could hear the priest laughing to himself as I was confessing it.[/quote] ROFL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Joe Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Where do I begin... I once went to confession with a priest who also happened to be the prison chaplain. after I finished stating my sins, the priest said something to the effect of, "That's it? I'm a prison chaplain. I hear the confessions of murders and rapists." I didn't actually say it, but I was like, "I'm sorry Father. I'll try harder next time." The point he was trying to make was that I was not the worst sinner in the world. There's a couple of priests here who give the same penance no matter what. I have a friend in the seminary, who has an Army buddy who hadn't gone to confession in 10 years. Well, my friend finally convinced him that he should go. He went in and told the priest that it had been 10 years since his last confession. to which the priest replied, "TEN YEARS!?!" I once had a priest turn and look at me face to face. Fortunately, he gave me a warning and this was behind a screen. I've known him since high school, and at the time I was struggling with sins of impurity and still am. He was trying to express his disappointment in me because since my last confession I hadn't done enough to curb my vices. I once had a priest ask if I loved Jesus. To which I replied, "Well, I suppose." That caused him to tense up, clench his teeth and take a sharp inhale. Once, I had a priest say I should think about what I did. There's a priest in Omaha who is known as the slammer because if he doesn't like your confession (too slow, unrepentant, etc) he'll slam the door to confessional screen loudly, enough that people outside can hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 [quote]There's a priest in Omaha who is known as the slammer because if he doesn't like your confession (too slow, unrepentant, etc) he'll slam the door to confessional screen loudly, enough that people outside can hear it.[/quote] Oh dear....I'd cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 [quote name='MissyP89' post='1687583' date='Oct 27 2008, 08:40 PM']I was like, "ACK, THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THERE, SWEETIE!" And somebody heard me, gasped, and got the kid out of the confessional while someone else shut the door. Oops. [/quote] A few months ago I was at adoration and there were confessions at the same time. The door to the confessional was opening, and I happened to notice it, so I went over to shut it. Afterwards the man in the confessional came around to the pew where I was sitting and said something angry to me. I think he said "don't ever do that again." I felt bad because I think he thought I was listening to his confession or something. Ever since then I'm not sure what the etiquette is. Should we shut the door to the confessional if we see it open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princessgianna Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 [quote name='doe-jo' post='1687897' date='Oct 28 2008, 12:52 AM']The best thing a priest ever told me in the confessional was that he would pray and make sacrifices for me. I know it's not that big of a deal but it was music to my ears because I heard it during one of the worse times of my life. . It was as if the weight of the world was taken off my shoulders. This was a month ago too. Anyway, I have a bad one. I went to a rosary rally at a college a year ago. I confessed to the priest about prank calling protestant prayer hot lines. I told him that my friends and I were bored at 1:00 am and was flipping through the channel and just happened to stumble upon this protestant channel. They were taking in prayers and all. I don't know what got into our heads but we thought it'd be funny to prank call them. So we called them and told them to pray for the souls in purgatory, for all the priests and more vocations to the priesthood. When I confessed that to the priest, he just started busting up for about 5 minutes. I mean, he couldnt even speak. Then he just told me that it wasnt really a sin because we didnt intend to harm anyone. He said its like prank calling a friend. But I thought it was uncharitable on our part. I was in there for about 15 minutes because he couldnt stop laughing.[/quote] OH MY THAT IS SO FUNNY~!!! You don't know how funny that is my friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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