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>>13098858
Most Churches have designated confession times. You go in during those times and there is usually a designated room in the back of the Church where you go in. Traditional Churches will have a screen and you will not be face to face. Avoid the liberal Churches that if you are uncomfortable with face to face confession. During confession, you list off your mortal sins, say an act of contrition, and the priest gives you spiritual guidance and penance to help you.
If you are unsure on how it all works, if you email someone from the Church I'm sure they would help you as well.

>>12290566
>>12292050

I used to think it was a cope, but when I began to fast, pray, and actually try take it seriously, and I realized the hedonism I partook in before was the true cope. To truly believe, confess your sins, do penance, and amend your life, while always being aware of the finality of life and your actions is not a pleasurable thing. It is deeply satisfying and uniquely human, as anon described but it was certainly not any happy lie I told myself. Boomer Protestantism would probably fit the cope description since its once saved always saved, but those who truly believe the Catholic faith I do not believe fall under such a category.
I think 4chan as a conglomerate tends to say anything it is unaccustomed with as being a cope. (I am not accusing you necessarily) Ironically, calling things a cope is a cope in of itself in that way. I used to always justify despondency with saying the alternatives were just "copes" when in reality that was just a lie I told myself to feel happy. I knew from the few spiritual experiences I had that I was missing something in my life and I constantly tried to push it way. That, for me at least, was the cope.

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