When you gotta go, you gotta go
Aug 27, 2015 23:43:46 #
Aug 28, 2015 01:10:06 #
wrr wrote:
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At my age, 88, I thought I'd seen everything -- but this is a stopper for me. The use of multiple portable confessionals in an open field at some kind of social event...? I would not have believed it.
Aug 28, 2015 04:09:57 #
RichardQ wrote:
At my age, 88, I thought I'd seen everything -- but this is a stopper for me. The use of multiple portable confessionals in an open field at some kind of social event...? I would not have believed it.
I have to agree with you.
Aug 28, 2015 10:50:49 #
RichardQ wrote:
At my age, 88, I thought I'd seen everything -- but this is a stopper for me. The use of multiple portable confessionals in an open field at some kind of social event...? I would not have believed it.
Believe it. I was on the priest side of a similar confession arrangement at the Washington (D.C.) Nationals field when Pope Benedict VI visited. The lines were very long. There were about a dozen or so priests in a "pod" with members of religious orders directing the penitents to the next confessor who was free. I don't know how many pods there were. We were there for an hour prior to the beginning of Mass. I suspect there will be a similar arrangement before the Masses Pope Francis will celebrate while visiting the U.S. next month. It was deeply moving to be privileged to hear each penitent and give absolution.
Aug 28, 2015 20:58:29 #
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