Confession trial
From Peter Wills, Strand:
I am glad that Marion Jordaan raised the issue of confession. I believe that practising Catholics do worry that they do not go to confession at least once a year, but many people work more than eight hours a day and travel another two to three hours.
Confession is normally before Saturday afternoon Mass. That is very inconvenient if you go to Sunday Mass, and then have to travel 10km to confession on a Saturday.
Recently our parish priest arranged for three priests from other parishes to hold a penitential service, and hundreds came to take the sacrament of reconciliaton.
This shows that people are sensitive about confessing to their own priest, who in turn might feel more comfortable in giving advice to penitents who are unknown to them.
Can a trial not be done as follows: every second Saturday morning of the month, confessions be held from 9-11am, with a group of three or four close-by parishes swapping priests for the purposes of offering the sacrament.
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