My little girl makes her first confession today

[bleedingheart]

and like me...she can't think of anything she has done wrong that needs to be confessed.

:evilgrin:

we go tonight...it should be quite entertaining.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. When my son made his, I told him to pack a lunch.

[bleedingheart]

2. bwahahahahah

I am hoping to there early cuz she has a Brownie meeting and it is cookie sign up night...and gift exchange...which I think will be more entertaining than confession.

poor mite was terrified about memorizing prayers...

and it doesn't help that my son will trip her up and say the wrong things during the prayers...

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Have her think in terms of Santa watching

Just teasin'

Hope you share back later about how it went :hi:

[bleedingheart]

4. Oh I will...I am sure that she will tell a doozy and I will be laughing

[Book Lover]

5. I was in the same boat, too

But I was lucky because I got Father Kenny, who was way old school. He ran down a list of questions and you could answer yes or no.

[rug]

6. I told my daughter that if the red light comes on, the kid in front of her was in big trouble.

[bleedingheart]

7. bwahahahaha

they make the kids do a face to face confession...I would have never survived that one...

[zappa_parappa]

8. I think confession was created by some perverted priest

who got off on hearing other peoples dirty little secrets.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. How old is she?

[bleedingheart]

12. 8

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Self-delete

I had a momentary attack of incredibly bad judgement. :blush:

I apologise to anyone who saw it and was offended.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Tell her a dirty joke.

Then she can confess to laughing at it.

[Taverner]

11. tell her to confess to the Lindburgh kidnapping

[bleedingheart]

13. I can't imagine the penance for being a smart ass...but I bet

it involves a lot of Hail Mary's...

[Sanity Claws]

15. Five Hail Mary's

Well, at least that's what Father Moore thought was the appropriate penance. Actually, he thought that was the appropriate penance for whatever I confessed to.

[nini]

18. 5 Hail Marys and 5 Our Fathers - EVERY time

I could have murdered someone and that would be what Father Brennan would have said. :P

[Bunny]

19. Father Quinn made us give him three each, no matter what we did.

Meat on Friday? Three Our Fathers, Three Hail Marys.
Hit your brother? Three Our Fathers, Three Hail Marys.
Murder your Grandma? Three Our Fathers, Three Hail Marys.


The penance was completely unrelated to the sin. There was an odd sort of beauty to his system, actually. :D

[Bunny]

16. I remember going to confession when I was little. I, too, was perfect,

so I had to tell lies in the confessional to make myself seem plausible. :silly: There was a list of suggested sins in the back of the missal, so I would read up on this to prepare to go in the dark closet with the sliding screen!

[bleedingheart]

17. I told the priest I had bludgeoned my brother with a barbie doll

and I had to say a few prayers for it...cuz I hadn't killed him...hahahaha

[LostinVA]

20. Poor thing -- I was scared to death n/t

[hippywife]

21. Oh, man!

I remember mine! I was in second grade and scared shitless of the confessional. LOL

[malta blue]

22. We go on Saturday

She is nervous:scared:

She has a long list that she has written to choose from in case she gets too scared.
:rofl:

[trof]

23. Miz t. used to make them up.

She was raised Roman Catholic.
If she hadn't done anything bad, she'd make something up.
She thought it was mandatory to show up with at least ONE sin.
:shrug:

[hickman]

24. A Priest told me a story once about doing first confessions.

I don't know if it happened to him or a friend of his. He was hearing a little boy's first and couldn't figure out where the boy's voice was coming from. It seemed to be coming from above the grille. Finally he couldn't take it any longer and went out and pulled back the curtain. The little boy was for some reason kneeling on the little shelf under the grille and bending down to speak into the grille. He had apparently misunderstood the instructions. Confessions came to a halt for a little while because the priest couldn't stop laughing.

[Crap_in_a_Hat]

25. Makes me think of "Angela's Ashes"

Maybe she should confess to hearing a dirty joke like Frank. Simple enough.

[hunter]

26. My kids can go from loving one another to hating one another in an instant.

So they had a lot of hating and fighting to confess to.

It looked to me that my youngest had a recursive confession, confessing about confessing about confessing about things just confessed. It only stopped, the hole stopped getting deeper, when our Priest laughed.

[deadparrot]

27. I lied at my first confession.

:)

Hell, at least I didn't end up going to the priest who was arrested years later for child molestation.

[bleedingheart]

28. Well we are back....the priest got the kids all flummoxed

right before they had to got into the confessional...

My daughter had a panic attack and was looking at me from her pew like..."what have you done to me"...

She went in and came out in a second...her sin..."I didn't do my homework yet"...

everything else went smoothly...

[snacker]

29. Here's what I used to do when I was that age...

make up a couple of things and add one to the count on my "I told lies" list.

[UncleSepp]

30. Congrats ... she'll look back on it someday

There's a bit of fondness, isn't there, in looking back to the days when we really couldn't think of anything to say?

Confession's a good exercise, I think, Catholic or not. What did you do that you weren't proud of, that you think was wrong? What didn't you do that you could have that would have been good? There seems to be a second part of it missing, that I suspect is supposed to be there somewhere. What did you do that you think was right? What opportunity did you take to do a good deed?

[shanine]

31. I used to say

I disobeyed my parents, I figured that covered everything. I would come out of the confessional and draw a blank as to what my penance was . . after confirmation I was out of there forever.

[CBHagman]

32. I pray she gets an enlightened priest.

Over the past few years I've actually had some very good experiences with confession. One priest suggested I read Thich Nhat Hanh (GREAT advice). Your daughter's too young for that, but perhaps the priest will simply remind her of God's love and the need to keep approaching God in prayer and other people in love.

I realize when you're small and approaching that confessional booth for the first time, I feels like dissertation defense day, only on a smaller scale. But I recall having a feeling of relief and a certain sense of spiritual cleansing the first time I got out of confession (I recounted what must have been a decade's worth of kid sins). It was like having all of my homework done and the rest of the weekend free.

She should do fine. I wish her well.

[NashVegas]

33. Confession Was an Excersize In Torture for Me

I didn't dare say what I was really getting into, major authority issues.

[nuxvomica]

34. I had stolen a dime from my sister

So I was all set for my first confession. Thank God for that cuz otherwise I would've had to make something up.