RE: Natural family planning
November 26, 2022 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2022 at 3:03 pm by Jehanne.)
The communial penance services will also substitute for sacramental confession; just show-up, sit there and all your sins are forgiven! The 10-second (or, perhaps, 5) "confessions" afterwards always amazed me, when folks, a minority, would come forward, utter a few words and the priest would perform absolution.
I remember when I was really "into it" and went to a traditional Catholic priest, a complete stranger, and "laid it on him". He listened for my 15 or 20 minutes of ranting all of my sins before pronouncing the traditional formula, "Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti". It was, for me, a moment of transcendence and it must be admitted that religious faith can bring complete strangers together to do odd things.
I remember when I was really "into it" and went to a traditional Catholic priest, a complete stranger, and "laid it on him". He listened for my 15 or 20 minutes of ranting all of my sins before pronouncing the traditional formula, "Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti". It was, for me, a moment of transcendence and it must be admitted that religious faith can bring complete strangers together to do odd things.
