We have enough churches and a cathedral in our catholic dominated town so if you want to enlighten a guilty conscience there is plenty of opportunity. Here is the confessional box in our Jesuit church. I wonder why the curtains were closed.
The curtains were probably closed to show that the priest is in his spot, waiting to hear confessions. Twelve years of Catholic school and after that, they decided to have open confessionals, which all of us old time Catholics found appalling!
I thought the idea was that the priest was sworn to secrecy about what he hears. We didn’t have confession in the Church of England which was Protestant.
The open confessional was not going into a confessional–just a chair, out in the open, and you spoke directly to the priest. I guess we felt too exposed. He could see your face! You kind of lost that sense secrecy you had in the confessional with the screen dividing you from the priest. It has been years since I have been in a confessional, though.
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The curtains were probably closed to show that the priest is in his spot, waiting to hear confessions. Twelve years of Catholic school and after that, they decided to have open confessionals, which all of us old time Catholics found appalling!
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I thought the idea was that the priest was sworn to secrecy about what he hears. We didn’t have confession in the Church of England which was Protestant.
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The open confessional was not going into a confessional–just a chair, out in the open, and you spoke directly to the priest. I guess we felt too exposed. He could see your face! You kind of lost that sense secrecy you had in the confessional with the screen dividing you from the priest. It has been years since I have been in a confessional, though.
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Now I know more how it functions.
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