Has your Priest ...Ever Laughed...during confession

[Elvis Guy]

I had an experience , and, I have a fantastic Irish Priest...good Limerick man so..I met him in office it was I had requested advice, and council on an Issue, so, for good measure it had been a bit since confession, well.....it just popped out really Beloved...i mean.... must have had some Neuron misfire, but...I confessed I had fallen asleep, in his his Mass, then I added (it was TRUE...but..well you shall see) I had minor knee surgery and I had to pop the...yes the Vicodin. Well my dear people I sort of "said" the first part...and just said the rest in less a sentence than a long choppy word. Now! we were in his Study I was kneeling , and I looked up and he was staring down (usually in Study he keeps a steady center focus between his feet, but, BANG, eye contact Dear People the downfall of many of us...our eyes held a second and Deadpan in his rolling Brogue: Well, me Lad, not even sure where I should start, the fact that my Masses put you to sleep, or you require a mild narcotic to survive one and simply outdid yerself!" I don't need to spell it out...lol..we were both shacking...I composed myself "And said, Padre, I think the whole mood for proper confession has collapseed , Im going to to this bit with Fr. J at Cathedral tomorrow. So yes the advisory consul went and I went to the more Sombre Fr. J that next morning. Now PLEASE!! do not read this and think it is jokes about conffession , Not Taking Confession Seriously, or ANY of that Fr. K and I both hold it in the esteem a Sacrament should be held and viewed, Beloved this a Murphys Law! My wording, his being blindsided... and both of us having a lot of Irish in us! AGAIN. NOT Joking About Confession ...it was more a Confession that derailed (oddly indication of how high my view of it is I did in fact go to our Cathedral ) so as not to offend anyone Im steering this towards a....Confession Derailing, Jumping the Track! (OH my Priest does give great confessions ...he at one point owned a Pub...so..you don't downplay or say white lie or things like that to him...he's seen and heard it all!) So...any other Confession jumped the tracks here!!

[Elvis Guy]

Small note someone PMd me about, this...my comment on "Eye Contact being a Downfall" LOL...well..OK...Dear people...sometimes....in case where a slip of toungue a snafu or even if you had some odd funny thought enter your head...eye Contact with some people will make that "snowball" roll!! My Priest is Magnificent, reallybest Priest I've had, and he can be ....DEAD serious or He can be Amazingly funny, in this case I thnk his brief confusion gave way to amusement, so...eyes meet...and there it is....I mean it may still have flipped if I had kept my head bowed, but...I HAD to look...cause..there was this pin drop Silence...a Padre..ya still with me here thing so.Yes. (Thanks for pointing out I had not explained that!)

[Neildown]

I've had sort of a derailment before. I was on the kneeler with the priest in front of me, but he was behind a curtain, so we couldn't see each other. Started everything as usual, told my sins, and he gave me a bit of advice. But then he caught me off-guard a bit by asking me about school, and after I gave a fairly short answer he asked me what my favorite subject was. Due to my being off-guard though, for a split second I thought he was talking about the area of sin I was having trouble with. Instead of stating a school subject I awkwardly stated an area of sin that had been bothering me prominently.

When I did this he sort of stopped talking in puzzlement for a second and then chuckled, saying, "No, I meant in relation to school." I couldn't help a humorous, quiet groan and a hand to my face. It got back on track fairly quick though and got finished properly.

[CallMeCatholic]

I have personally never had it happen, but I discussed this today with a few friends & they were all petrified that it would happen in their next confession.

My only odd moment was when the Priest asked, "Is that it?" and I sat there thinking for a while, examining my conscious for any other sins. I eventually said, "Nope, I believe that's it." to which the Priest replied "Oh. Good. Well you've been a good person then . . . um . . ." and then proceeded to the next step. I chuckled a bit inside.

[Phaedra777]

Yes, but that's just because I presented my first confession after many years in a sort of stand-up comedy way. I think it was a defense mechanism of some sort.

[Elvis Guy]

Originally Posted by CallMeCatholic

I have personally never had it happen, but I discussed this today with a few friends & they were all petrified that it would happen in their next confession.

My only odd moment was when the Priest asked, "Is that it?" and I sat there thinking for a while, examining my conscious for any other sins. I eventually said, "Nope, I believe that's it." to which the Priest replied "Oh. Good. Well you've been a good person then . . . um . . ." and then proceeded to the next step. I chuckled a bit inside.

LOL....sorry I was not shooting for impant here...lol...look past tense...dont freeze up over my goofiness..man..

[Elvis Guy]

Originally Posted by Phaedra777

Yes, but that's just because I presented my first confession after many years in a sort of stand-up comedy way. I think it was a defense mechanism of some sort.

Well..how did he respond to a ...stand up approach..curios now...Me and my Priest had "good" intent... lol..it happened.so..did he let it slide...you....do confession in a more..orthodox manner now?

[Elvis Guy]

Originally Posted by Neildown

I've had sort of a derailment before. I was on the kneeler with the priest in front of me, but he was behind a curtain, so we couldn't see each other. Started everything as usual, told my sins, and he gave me a bit of advice. But then he caught me off-guard a bit by asking me about school, and after I gave a fairly short answer he asked me what my favorite subject was. Due to my being off-guard though, for a split second I thought he was talking about the area of sin I was having trouble with. Instead of stating a school subject I awkwardly stated an area of sin that had been bothering me prominently.

When I did this he sort of stopped talking in puzzlement for a second and then chuckled, saying, "No, I meant in relation to school." I couldn't help a humorous, quiet groan and a hand to my face. It got back on track fairly quick though and got finished properly.

Neil...good save my man...

[Chaplain777]

Originally Posted by Elvis Guy

I had an experience , and, I have a fantastic Irish Priest...good Limerick man so..I met him in office it was I had requested advice, and council on an Issue, so, for good measure it had been a bit since confession, well.....it just popped out really Beloved...i mean.... must have had some Neuron misfire, but...I confessed I had fallen asleep, in his his Mass, then I added (it was TRUE...but..well you shall see) I had minor knee surgery and I had to pop the...yes the Vicodin. Well my dear people I sort of "said" the first part...and just said the rest in less a sentence than a long choppy word. Now! we were in his Study I was kneeling , and I looked up and he was staring down (usually in Study he keeps a steady center focus between his feet, but, BANG, eye contact Dear People the downfall of many of us...our eyes held a second and Deadpan in his rolling Brogue: Well, me Lad, not even sure where I should start, the fact that my Masses put you to sleep, or you require a mild narcotic to survive one and simply outdid yerself!" I don't need to spell it out...lol..we were both shacking...I composed myself "And said, Padre, I think the whole mood for proper confession has collapseed , Im going to to this bit with Fr. J at Cathedral tomorrow. So yes the advisory consul went and I went to the more Sombre Fr. J that next morning. Now PLEASE!! do not read this and think it is jokes about conffession , Not Taking Confession Seriously, or ANY of that Fr. K and I both hold it in the esteem a Sacrament should be held and viewed, Beloved this a Murphys Law! My wording, his being blindsided... and both of us having a lot of Irish in us! AGAIN. NOT Joking About Confession ...it was more a Confession that derailed (oddly indication of how high my view of it is I did in fact go to our Cathedral ) so as not to offend anyone Im steering this towards a....Confession Derailing, Jumping the Track! (OH my Priest does give great confessions ...he at one point owned a Pub...so..you don't downplay or say white lie or things like that to him...he's seen and heard it all!) So...any other Confession jumped the tracks here!!

Think what would have happened had you told him about your combat with the Valiant Gopher!

[Elvis Guy]

Originally Posted by Chaplain777

Think what would have happened had you told him about your combat with the Valiant Gopher!

LOL...oddly he would like it...he has a Boxer...it runs after Gopphers out in the yard all the time.... his dog Vince is a Master Gopher KILLA!

[Phaedra777]

Originally Posted by Elvis Guy

Well..how did he respond to a ...stand up approach..curios now...Me and my Priest had "good" intent... lol..it happened.so..did he let it slide...you....do confession in a more..orthodox manner now?

Oh, he laughed. In fact, we were so loud that I thought the folks waiting out in line were going, "What the heck? Oh, this might not be so bad!"

Yes, I'm much more normal now. Just throw in a few quips....

[LilyM]

Only once - I worded something in a slightly clumsy way that made the priest laugh about it.

Once I was in one of those confessionals that have booths for penitents on either side of the priest, so two penitents can enter at once (one on either side of him). While I was in there waiting for the penitent on the other side to finish, I inadvertently recalled a really funny joke and got an uncontrollable fit of giggles.

Thankfully it was over before the priest heard my confession, but I do wonder what he must've thought of me if he'd heard me chuckling all alone in there ..

[IrishRush]

Originally Posted by Phaedra777

Yes, but that's just because I presented my first confession after many years in a sort of stand-up comedy way. I think it was a defense mechanism of some sort.

When I came back to the Church after being away for about 35 years, when I finally got up the nerve to go to my first confession since being back, I suggested to Father that I could save us both a lot of time if I just went over the things I HADN'T done in my time away . I think he wasn't expecting that because it had been a little (read "alot" there) emotional getting started, and he did give a laugh. And then reminded me that that's not the way we do confession. It was the first time I ever made a priest laugh in confession. And I have to admit, I was more comfortable going on after that.

[Phaedra777]

Originally Posted by IrishRush

When I came back to the Church after being away for about 35 years, when I finally got up the nerve to go to my first confession since being back, I suggested to Father that I could save us both a lot of time if I just went over the things I HADN'T done in my time away .

Ah, yes! The ol', "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. But the good news is I haven't killed anyone!"

I know it well.

[Elvis Guy]

Easy.. I in op made clear to Avoid Offending, No Jokes About Confession . Seeing some line crosses. Thanks . Pax