Remember "Confession" or "Penance" (for Catholics or relapsed ones)

[caledesi]

Remember when you used to go to confession and ALWAYS put the WORST sin in the middle of sins? Gawd, I could laugh about this all day, and only Catholics would understand.


"Uh, Father I disobeyed by mother twice, I had 'impure thoughts.' And oh,BTW, I masturbated. And lastly, I haven't said my prayers in 2 days."

Sound familiar?

You always put the WORST sin in the middle, hoping the priest wouldn't catch it.

Course, my priest was an alcoholic and you could smell the beer from a mile away, but still I adhered to this "technique."

[KG]

1. you actually told your priest you mastubated?

[trof]

2. Miz t. made up "sins".

Couldn't think of any she'd actually commited, but felt obligated to come up with something.
True.
;-)

[joeybee12]

4. I did that too! As a young-en, I wasn't quite sure what really was

sinful...I knew disrespecting parents was a biggie, and I knew that, so I just gave some general ones, like impure thoughts, even though I was a tres, tres, innocnet little tyke!

[Bunny]

5. I did too!

My First Communion missal had a list of suggested sins in the back of the book, and I would choose three at random each week. I thought I was the only one who actually LIED at confession! Whew - am I glad to know that others did too!

[trof]

6. Miz t. laughed at that.

I expect there were many kids who felt "obligated".

[MidwestMomma]

11. I thought you not only had to list the sins but list them by number

You know...I disobeyed my mother 5 times, etc...

I would always add an extra 'lie' to cover the fact that my sin accounting wasn't strictly accurate :)

[bearfan454]

3. Say 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our fathers and 5 Apostle's Creed

and don't sin before communion tomorrow morning.

[trof]

7. Miz t.'s standard penance: 2 Our Fathers and 3 Hail Marys, unless...

it was really bad.
Then an Act of Contrition.

[Historic NY]

8. They used to ask if you had any un-pure thoughts........heck

all the time...

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. No! No! No! You forget the worst ones...conveniently, because God

will forgive you for all...even if you "forget". I used this option all the time. :)

[miss_kitty]

10. was baptised late (age 13) against my wishes and only confessed twice

the 2nd time Fr Sullivan went off because I didn't know the 'Act of Contrition' really well. Bub-bye church.