It's very unfortunate because this priest who I have been seeing as a confessor was very patient and easy to talk to.
Indeed, priests have to be cognizant of this. People are often deterred from making confession to priest who are impatient and seem to haughtily rebuke the penitent. Probably the best Confessor I had in SSPX who came across that way, and extremely kind, compassionate Confessor ... was Father Daniel Cooper. Traditional Catholics need more priests who are kind and compassionate, and that has been somewhat lacking over the years. We need priests where sinners WANT to confess to them rather than being AFRAID to confess.
I was a seminarian some time ago, and got to a new chapel before the priest did, and I walked into the Sacristy to go put on my surplice, etc. Well, I didn't know that the priest heard Confessions in that sacristy. So I walked out and there was a huge line of people waiting. I found out later that normally the line was very short because the faithful were afraid to confess to that priest, and when they saw me walking in, the line just blew up nearly out the back door. I felt terrible and wished I could hear all their confessions. But that episode showed me how many people really did want to confess and unburden their souls, but were simply too afraid to do so. Also, I'm sure that kind of thing leads to bad confessions among younger children ... when they're afraid of the priest.
I think that it would be a good idea to have a couple of priests who are very good confessors travel around the country at various chapels. People would then confess to them when they might be afraid to with their regular priest, and the people wouldn't have to be afraid that these travelling priests would know them and look down on them.
But, you see, these SSPX superiors don't think about such things, trying to come up with ways to help save souls. If I were superior, I would take a survey to find three or four priests whom the penitents most like confessing to, and I would designate them as travelling confessors. They would then take turns flying out to individual chapels, in ADDITION to the regular priests. They would offer an early-morning low Mass and then would spend the rest of their time in the confessional, even while the main Mass was going on, and they would stay there until finished (even if the priest had to rush off to another Mass). They would hear confessions, general confessions, and even give spiritual direction. And don't tell me that SSPX doesn't have 3-4 priests they could spare for this kind of duty. That's nonsense.
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