What makes a confession valid?

Bombadil · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2020 6:51 pm

So today the priest was in a hurry and only gave a penance(including an act of contrition) and said "I absolve you of all your sins".

Is that valid? He didn't say the other prayer. I know it's come up before and i should remember.

Obi-Wan Kenobi · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:29 pm

Yes, it's valid.

Jack3 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2020 8:33 pm

Quote:

Eugene IV teaches that the "form" of the Sacrament is really in those words of the priest: "Ego absolvo te a peccatis tuis in nomine Patris" etc.,

and theologians teach that absolution would be valid should the priest use, "Absolvo te", "Absolvo te a peccatis tuis", or words that are the exact equivalent (Suarez, Disp., XIX, i, n. 24; Lugo, Disp., XIII, i, nn. 17, 18; Lehmkuhl, de Pœnit., 9th ed., 199).

Quoted in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Bombadil · **Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:16 pm

Thanks!

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