u/Character-Key-1954

i just want to rant a little bit. my fiance and i have been together for 5 years. he proposed a year and a half ago. we live together since i only came back to the church a year ago, we’d been cohabbing for around 2 years previously.

anyways, since my reversion my fiance and i are planning on getting married in the church. (he’s not catholic btw) and let me tell you this process has been so disheartening. they changed programs half way through our process and didn’t tell us. we’d been looking for a sponsor couple for months since that’s what we’d been told previously, and right after we found one the said we didn’t need them. the entire office is impossible to reach, i want to know how much it costs to rent the parish hall, and i’ve emailed them 3 times in two weeks and tried calling but was left on hold for 10 + minutes. my parish also requires NFP to get married but i quite frankly don’t feel comfortable tracking cervical mucus or taking temperatures every day, im more likely to fall short on completing it and messing numbers up. i’m very fortunate to have a very regular cycle, tracking it should be enough. i almost don’t want to get married anymore, at least through the church. please send me your prayers because i need all of the patience i can possibly get.

hello all, i was talking to my spiritual advisor and she recommended i schedule a confession with the priest instead of going during the posted times because i need a lot of guidance as well as a confession. i have it scheduled for july 1st. so, like, what now? like do i still go to regular confession and only list the stuff i don’t need guidance on? but that would count as withholding sins, no? do i just wait the month out? and help is appreciated. god bless.

I woke up this morning to some pretty nasty laryngitis, I can barely speak above a whisper, but I need to go to confession. I’m not sick, it’s from either allergies or stress, and I need advice on what to do. Since I’m not sick, I do plan on going, but how should I handle it? I deal with scrupulosity so me not going would make me even more stressed out. Can my confession be written out or does it have to be verbal? Thank you.