{"id":1073,"date":"2026-04-30T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:40:35","slug":"confessional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/30\/confessional\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve started taking photos of confessionals when we go into churches. Up to now they were the \u201copen\u201d kind where the priest is inside the center box with a sliding window on each side. The confessee kneels on the side. This was the only kind I saw from Saint Jean to Burgos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a church in Burgos I finally found the kind I am used to where the confessees are also enclosed in a box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But wait, let\u2019s zoom out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey Burgos, what with all the sinning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grew up Catholic and when into those boxes many times, always on a Saturday so I could take communion on Sunday. Or do you receive communion? I forget. But I did not forget what you said when the priest slid the slider open:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cForgive me father for I have sinned. My last confession was (well, let\u2019s see, hmm\u2026) 63 years ago. My sins are: \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just checked with Claude and it says the second part is \u201cIt has been [length of time] since my last confession\u201d and it used the word \u201cpenitent\u201d where I have been using \u201cconfessee\u201d which is probably not a real word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another confession: I never confessed all my sins. Somehow masturbation never made the list. Even at age 13 I was aware of the irony of lying to the priest at confession. On the other hand the \u201cget out of jail free\u201d aspect of the whole confession thing always appealed to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve started taking photos of confessionals when we go into churches. Up to now they were the \u201copen\u201d kind where the priest is inside the center box with a sliding window on each side. The confessee kneels on the side. This was the only kind I saw from Saint Jean to Burgos. In a church … Continue reading “Confessional”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}