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Updated: May 5, 2025
Repeat with me: 'Confiteor Deo omnipotenti; Beata Mariae semper virgini." He paused from time to time to permit the dying man to catch up to him. Then he said: "Now, confess." The sick man murmured something. The priest repeated: "You have committed sins: of what kind, my son?" The young woman rose and said simply: "Let us go into the garden. We must not listen to his secrets."
"Therefore I beseech the Blessed Mary ever Virgin," etc., "to pray to the Lord our God for me." When we kneel down to say the Confiteor, if we could imagine what I have just described to take place, how well we should say it! With what attention, respect, and sorrow we should ask the prayers of the saints!
All day you have made me tear the shoulders of my friends with cow-hide, and now we are to begin again. Do not let us do it, Henri, when there's but two, every blow tells." "Hold your tongue, miserable chatterer, and think of repentance." "I repent! And of what? Of being jester to a monk. Confiteor I repent, mea culpa, it is a great sin." "No sacrilege, wretch." "Ah!
I grant you all a dispensation to eat flesh this day, conditionally that you, brethren, say the Confiteor at curfew time, that the knight give alms to his ability, and that all and each of you fast from flesh on such day within the next month that shall seem most convenient; wherefore fall to and eat your food with cheerful countenances, and you, Father Refectioner, da mixtus."
And he looketh at the holy hermit that was robed to sing mass and said his "Confiteor", and seeth at his right hand the fairest Child that ever he had seen, and He was clad in an alb and had a golden crown on his head loaded with precious stones that gave out a full great brightness of light.
This favours truthfulness in the mind and humility in the soul the spirit of the Confiteor. Its dangers are those of too easy assent, of inordinate pursuit of particular good, of inconstancy and variability, of all the humanistic elements which lead back to paganism.
I have the power and the right to consecrate a bishop any priest whom I think a fit person. Kneel down here, say the 'Confiteor, and I will lay my hands on you. You could then give the penitent absolution and ordain him a priest privately." Don Matteo started in utmost surprise, and hesitated an instant. "Kneel down," said the cardinal. "I take this upon myself."
When all the people were assembled there, Fra Cipolla, without observing that aught of his had been meddled with, began his preachment and said many words anent his affairs; after which, thinking to come to the showing of the Angel Gabriel's feather, he first recited the Confiteor with the utmost solemnity and let kindle a pair of flambeaux; then, pulling off his bonnet, he delicately unfolded the taffetas wrapper and brought out the casket.
A highly adorned little lady rushed into the confessional; she was brisk, rosy, fresh. Despite her expression of deep thoughtfulness, she spoke very quickly in a musical voice, and rattled through her Confiteor, regardless of the sense. "Father," she said, "I have one thing that is troubling me." "Speak, my child; you know that a confessor is a father." "Well, father but I really dare not."
"Thereupon Pere Lactance and Gabriel, a Franciscan brother, and one of the exorcists, exhorted all present with great fervour to lift up their hearts to God and to make an act of contrition for the offences committed against His divine majesty, and to pray that the number of their sins might not be an obstacle to the fulfilment of the plans which He in His providence had formed for the promotion of His glory on that occasion, and to give outward proof of their heartfelt grief by repeating the Confiteor as a preparation for the blessing of the Lord Bishop of Poitiers.
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