2006-10-04 06:58:47 · 8 answers · asked by sherry 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A Catholic only "has" to go to Reconciliation (Confession) once a year or when you are in a state of mortal sin. You "can" go as often as you like.
There are five or six places in each and every Mass where we admit to God our sinfulness and ask God for forgiveness and mercy. If this is sincerely done then God will absolve our venial sins.
Then the act of receiving the Eucharist cleanses "us from past sins and preserving us from future sins."
With love in Christ.
2006-10-04 17:34:14 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
None. In our Diocese they have "general" confessions that people can go to for example before Xmas and Easter. One time we were told to just tell two sins period, another time we were told to write our sins on a piece of paper and stood in line while the priest gave absolution and threw the sins into a fire. I thought that was neat. Another time he just said some prayers and told us the whole church had received the sacrament. I think the big thing is time, if they know alot of people are going to be going to confession for the holidays etc, then they tend to use these type of confessions. I have never been to or heard of a mass where confession was a "built" in. Perhaps in other dioceses they do exist but not the ones around where I live. Are you aware that there are 7 Catholic Rites? Roman Catholic, Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian, East Syrian, and Maronite? So if you travel and there is not a Roman Catholic Church available (if that's the type of Catholic you are) you could go to any of the above and they count as the same church. Just remember whatever you may have done, the priest has heard it thousands of times before. Most churches still allow for the confessional as an option so while in there they can't see your face etc. if that makes you feel more comfortable.
2006-10-04 07:17:05 · answer #2 · answered by Shaman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
On the primary Easter Sunday night time, Jesus looked as if it would His Apostles, "breathed on them," and mentioned,“Receive the Holy Spirit. For the ones whose sins you forgive, they're forgiven; for the ones whose sins you preserve, they're retained” (John 20:22-23).Only two times in Sacred Scripture will we discover God respiring into humans. First, within the Genesis account of production, God breathes the lifetime of a soul into the person He has created. (Gen two:7) Now, Jesus, the Son, breathes His lifestyles into His Apostles His clergymen, in order that by way of them He will "breathe" lifestyles into the souls of contrite sinners. In this scene, Christ instituted the sacrament of penance and made His Apostles the ministers of it. At the ascension, Jesus once more charged His Apostles with this ministry: "Thus it's written that the Messiah have to endure and upward push from the useless at the 3rd day. In His title penance for the remission of sins is to be preached to all of the international locations, opening at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of this. (Lk 24:46ff) Clearly, Jesus got here to forgive sins, He desired that reconciliation to keep and He gave the Church a sacrament by way of which clergymen might keep to behave because the ministers of this reconciliation.
2016-08-29 07:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Gotta confess.
2006-10-04 07:00:45 · answer #4 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. You have to go to confession to be absolved.
2006-10-04 07:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are speaking of a Community Penance Service and that is during Lent. It is not Mass.But it's not what you think.
2006-10-04 07:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another masturbator eh
2006-10-04 06:59:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last rights and you don't even have to go to them, they'll come to you.
2006-10-04 07:03:49 · answer #8 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋