It has been 31 years since my last confession.
Now that I’ve come back to the Roman Catholic Church, I find myself wanting to receive communion, but in order to do this, I am obligated to seek reconciliation. This means confessing my last 31 years of sins…boy, have I sinned! This is going to be more that just sneaking into the confessional in relative anonymity. It’s going to take a while. I am going to have to make an appointment and go over to the rectory one day with list in hand.
The though of doing this is terrifying.
Now that I’ve come back to the Roman Catholic Church, I find myself wanting to receive communion, but in order to do this, I am obligated to seek reconciliation. This means confessing my last 31 years of sins…boy, have I sinned! This is going to be more that just sneaking into the confessional in relative anonymity. It’s going to take a while. I am going to have to make an appointment and go over to the rectory one day with list in hand.
The though of doing this is terrifying.
I assume that priests are trained not to gasp, laugh or laugh & point, but still my stomach churns at the very thought of it.
4 comments:
Don't envy you that. One advantage of the old box--if they didn't actually laugh out loud, you could pretty much convince yourself they were taking it seriously. I imagine as an adult you can just sort of hit the high points. Have you thought of taking the classes they give to converts? A friend of mine went through them, and she has a much more grown up understanding of the faith than I ever will having left at 18 and never returned).
If it's recommended that I participate in RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)I will absolutely do it.
"High points"?? ;)
I think you mean LOW points.
BTW:I made the call (gulp) and have an appointment next week.
RCIA--that's it. It sounded so interesting I might have liked to take the classes too, except for the minor fact that I'm pretty much an atheist/agnostic with occasional excursions into buddhism and pantheism. Don't think they would have accepted me into the program :-)
Okay, you're right: "low points". Either way, just the big ones. I hope you get a good priest; that can make all the difference. Please let us know how it goes.
Barbora:
Good luck with the confessing. Thirty-one years of sins should take a while. See you next year.
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Trish:
I'm holding out for a religion that offers heaven without church.
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