My Confessions About the Confessional

What do you do when the Sacrament of Reconciliation feels like a torture chamber?

I wasn’t able to go to confession that day.

For some reason, I felt so weak emotionally and spiritually, and although I knew the Sacrament of Reconciliation should strengthen us, both prudence and experience told me that there is a time for everything.

I remember the time when I felt like that also, and at that time, I forced myself to go. Suffice it to say that I regretted the decision.

I so badly needed some consolation then, to hear that God loves me and understands me, but what I got instead was something that I felt very insulting and judging.

At that time, I couldn’t even separate the weakness of a priest from Jesus, whom I truly believed to be there at the confessional.

As a result, I felt that it was God Himself who was condemning me!