[Leica] Re: bless me lug for I have sinned

[faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)]

Hey - don't look to me. I was Bar-Mitzvah'd.
But strayed.
Way off.

Eric

On 11/28/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>
> It's clear to me that you guys learned your confessional dialog from
> movies.
> RC confession in North America went like this, and it works best to be
> kneeling:
>
> You say "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been (amount of time)
> since my last Confession".
>
> Then you say what you did, and try to sound penitent. Confess to the most
> dire things first, and be precise. The priest is supposed to get you to be
> quantitative.
>
> Then you say "For these and all the sins of my past life I am truly
> sorry".
>
> Then the priest assigns you some penance, and you say an Act of Contrition
> such as:
>
> O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended you and I detest all my
> sins, because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell. But most of
> all because I have offended you, my God, who are all good and deserving of
> all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of your grace, to confess my
> sins, to do penance and to amend my life. Amen.
>
> The priest will, unless your sins are really out of control, pronounce
> absolution, at the end of which you cross yourself. A traditional 
> absolution
> is:
>
> "God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son
> has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for
> the forgiveness of sins; through the ministry of the Church may God give 
> you
> pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the
> Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen."
>
> He sometimes ends with "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good," to which
> you say "For His mercy endures forever." If he says "Allah akhbar", which
> means more or less the same thing in another language, it's probably best 
> to
> leave quickly.
>
> I'm Anglican, not Roman Catholic, but I read a lot and most countries that
> I visit don't have Anglican churches in them.
>
> I'm the closest thing we've got to a priest in this sorry saloon, so I
> guess it's my job to assign penance and pronounce absolution. Your penance
> is to post good photographs and to enter the monthly contest.
>
>
>
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