"communal" Confession

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='thedude' post='1207587' date='Mar 3 2007, 10:32 PM']I am not sure it ever "works." If you survive in an emergency situation for which you recieved a general absolution, you must go to confession and confess your sins. If you die, you are okay as long as you intended to confess. That is why in a non-emergency situation, general absolution is useless. My response was promted by this reference from the Southern Catholic Register (from the Diocese of Lincoln):
[url="http://dioceseoflincoln.org/purple/confession/index.htm#1"]http://dioceseoflincoln.org/purple/confession/index.htm#1[/url]
and the Compendium of the Catechism, question 311 (scroll down):
[url="http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html#The%20Sacraments%20of%20Healing"]http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_c...%20of%20Healing[/url][/quote]

It looks like if the penitents are not in danger of death, general absolution is invalid.

[curtins]

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1207729' date='Mar 4 2007, 11:59 AM']I went to a parish penance service before I became Catholic ... it was weird ... instead of only having confession inside a confessional, there were priests all over the building hearing confessions out in the open.[/quote]


well if there we'rent enough confessionals then the priests would probably spread themselves out and try to go off to as quiet an area as possible

[Sojourner]

[quote name='curtins' post='1207918' date='Mar 4 2007, 03:36 PM']well if there we'rent enough confessionals then the priests would probably spread themselves out and try to go off to as quiet an area as possible[/quote]
yeah that was pretty much what happened ... but there were so many people and priests that there weren't really quiet places.

[bonoducchi]

Be happy - that's a great problem to have! All of our parishes should be so blessed! Now how do we get them there every week?

[Sojourner]

Ha! I'm not saying I was unhappy ... just that it was an unusual experience.