Does Catholic 'communal reconciliation' count as confession with absolution?

Question

With Advent approaching, some parishes in my area are offering communal reconciliation, where you go and make a general confession (nothing specific) like going up for communion. If one is truly penitent, does this count as confession with absolution?

Answer 1

Are you sure that this is the setup?

Generally, a communal reconciliation service begins with a prayer service (where one prays and recollects as a community and as an individual), and then a number of priests (from neighboring parishes included) hear individual confessions on an ongoing basis.

General confessions are only used in times of great need, as in troops preparing to enter battle, where the number of penitents in great and the number of priests few.

Answer 2

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Does Catholic 'communal reconciliation' count as confession with absolution?
With Advent approaching, some parishes in my area are offering communal reconciliation, where you go and make a general confession (nothing specific) like going up for communion. If one is truly penitent, does this count as confession with absolution?

Answer 3

Such a thing would certainly serve to have minor or venial sins forgiven, but grave or mortal sins would still need to be confessed through the sacrament of reconciliation.

There is no way, outside the sacrament of reconciliation, to receive absolution for mortal sins.

This is not to say that God might not forgive them if you properly apologize and repent, but without the sacrament and absolution, you just won't (and can't possibly) know whether he has ... or hasn't ... until Judgment Day.

The certainty and immediacy of forgiveness in the sacramentof reconciliation, is pretty much the whole point of absolution.

Answer 4

It depends on the circumstances.

There are three separate rites of Reconciliation:

+ Rite I: The Reconciliation of Individual Penitents

+ Rite II The Reconciliation of Several Penitents (Communal) with Individual Confession and Absolution:

This communal service with individual reconciliation and absolution, is recommended during the Advent and Lenten seasons. Several priests are usually available to participate in the celebration of the Liturgy of the Word; to hear individual confessions, and to reconcile the penitents.

+ Rite III: General Absolution:

This rite provides the opportunity for the confessor to administer absolution to large numbers of people in a single sacramental gesture reserved for use in emergency situations or in circumstances where the number of penitents is too great for a limited number of confessors to hear individual confessions.

This has been used with military man and women going into combat.

http://www.dioceseofgallup.org/sacraments/RECONCILIATION.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

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"CONFESSION". Dear, Do not expect him to listen or care for your confession. Afterall the ultimate receiver of your confession is the GREAT HE - THE GOD. Less "he listens more "HE LISTENS". Hope you understood the point. I understood your feelings. Let us see what is confession - It is, and rather it should be a rael and truthful repentence of the sin committed with or without ones' own knowledge. If it is real repentence (Confession) one should not committ the same sin again, or if at all, there a pressing need to do it again one should resist within hiself. THE GOD readily helps to the one who is willing to help himself. By resisting the unavoidable sin within, you (anybody) are invoking the GOD to help you. Certainly and may be slowly the GOD will see that the unavoidable situation will never arise later at all. If you never feel and simply and mechanically confessing every Sunday - It amounts that you are loading your weekly sins on HIM which is not fairenough. In hindu system the repentence is called 'PASCHAT-TAAPA". It means - Taapa=Burning/heat. Paschat=after doing. It means burn within himself after realizing that he committed a sin. Thank you.

Answer 6

nope

I went 30 years without confession cause I was to afraid

when I finally did
It felt like the world lifted off my shoulders, when I heard the words
absolve you of all your sins

don't be afraid just go in there and receive the grace and mercy waiting for you

God bless

Answer 7

if you are conscious of any serious, grave, or mortal sin, you must go to confession.

If you have not been to confession in the last year, you must go to confession.

Answer 8

If you truly repent and intend to be forgiven, then you will be forgiven.

ALL confessions have absolution.

Answer 9

If one is truly penitant, asking God to forgive all your sins is sufficient.


The problem is, very few of us are truly penitant.