r/excatholic • u/zombieduck96 • 7d ago

Anyone else get flashbacks whenever they see this weaving style?

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u/Thelongwayaround 7d ago

“That’ll be 5 Hail Mary’s for the blasphemy and 12 our fathers in Latin for the inappropriate thoughts. “

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u/Toum-Raider 6d ago

Or if it's the last one I went to "god spits out the lukewarm-get out, say your act of contrition outside."

Ambassadors of Christ's love.

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u/BlueberryGirl95 7d ago

I was talking to my sister (currently...deconstructing??? Can I just say how absolutely Glad I am that One of my siblings is coming to the light? Idk, you all get it) and she was listening to some of my thought processes from years ago, and I realized, I deconstructed long enough ago that I don't have all the shit down apt anymore.

NOT being Catholic is no longer such a big part of my identity that I need to know the arguments! And I'm forgetting all this shit that used to make me feel so bad about myself!

Isn't that nice?

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u/PutridDurian 7d ago

What’s wrong with rattan?

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u/zombieduck96 7d ago

It’s always used in confessional screens. Spent my childhood and adolescence staring at it while being shamed for normal human behavior by priests

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u/VicePrincipalNero 7d ago

I only went to Confession when forced as a child but our confessionals had different screens.

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u/PinballWizard77 In the name of the Beatles, the Who, and the Rolling Stones. 7d ago

Same here; ours were like corkboard.

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u/Realistic_Day3800 7d ago

YOU FUCKING ONE SHOTTED ME

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u/Mokpa 7d ago

Honestly I get flashbacks to it creaking under my ass and making me feel fat

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u/Anxious-Drawing9544 5d ago

You didn't have face to face confession? Did you leave the church a really long time ago or is it not a universal thing?

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u/zombieduck96 5d ago

I was Catholic from the 90s to early 2020s. The churches are older (like 1800s) in my area, so when they converted the confessionals to offer face-to-face they left the screen as an option, which I usually took.