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Offline Mega-fin

Re: NO penitential services
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2017, 06:30:07 PM »
Remember also that Pope Francis has made it known that you can go to confession and not actually list sins because you’re embarrassed or scared or whatever and still receive absolution. Which just adds to the bad NO confessions and even worse Communions (should it be valid)
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: NO penitential services
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2017, 07:58:32 PM »
Quote from: poche on December 11, 2017, 05:39:51 AM
The idea of a communal penance service is to gather a large number of people together with a as large as possible number of priests and afford them the opportunity to go to confession.
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So then why not afford them the opportunity without the big showtime production aspect?
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Are the penitents showing up for a sacrament, or for something "extra?"
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What about a reconciliation service where the attendants are afforded a communal absolution?
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Offline poche

Re: NO penitential services
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2017, 10:53:04 PM »
Quote from: Neil Obstat on December 11, 2017, 07:58:32 PM
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So then why not afford them the opportunity without the big showtime production aspect?
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Are the penitents showing up for a sacrament, or for something "extra?"
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What about a reconciliation service where the attendants are afforded a communal absolution?
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Communal absolution would be inappropriate.
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Offline poche

Re: NO penitential services
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2017, 01:16:08 AM »
The Apostolic Penitentiary has compiled an Italian-language book devoted to Pope Francis’s teaching on the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the indulgences the Pontiff has granted.
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the tribunal’s major penitentiary, and Msgr. Krzysztof Nykiel, the tribunal’s regent, wrote in the volume’s introduction that Pope Francis has sought to restore Confession to central place in the Church’s life and that the sacrament, rather than being a “torture chamber,” should be a “feast of forgiveness” where the sincerely repentant experience great happiness.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=34426
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