Question for Catholics

[TheRedChamber]

What would be an appropriate penance for pre-marital sex? The couple had intercourse once and this resulted in pregnancy. The couple will be married. They covered it up at first, but were found out quickly. The priest is relatively easy-going/pragmatic. He's going to give a 'be the best darn dad you can be' speech but I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to get any actual indication of what penance would actually be asked for (I swear search engines are getting worse and worse...) Any help appreciated.

EDIT: darn fat fingers had me asking about per marital sex.

 

[GrushaVashnadze]

Penances assigned in the Catholic confessional these days tend to be fairly symbolic indications of repentance, rather than full-on sackcloth and ashes. Your priest character sounds easy-going, and one-off pre-marital sex is a fairly common occurrence these days. Boring priests might simply ask them to pray an Our Father or a couple of Hail Marys as penance - as cliched as that seems. Priests who are more interesting, or who have more interest in eliciting some sort of genuine soul-searching in his flock, might ask them to read something from Scripture about the sanctity of marriage, e.g. Eph. 5:25-33 or Tobit 8:4-8.

For any further Catholic questions, feel free to PM me!

 

[XerXesXu]

As an orthopraxist: Per-marital sex ~ 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys; Pre-marital sex - a whole rosary.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Thanks to both of you. You both seem to have pretty much the same answer which matches what I'd kind of found but it also felt like if it were wrong it would be badly wrong.

@GrushaVashnadze Thanks for the offer. If its not too cheeky I might ask you to look over the story for general authenticity as I have one whole confession scene.

 

[jaF0]

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Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

A sex story where there's a (respectful, accurate) depiction of a repercussion of the characters' actions? Wow, novel!

 

[TheRedChamber]

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Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

Because I'm neither promoting nor focusing on religion. I'm especially not promoting it because as mentioned, I'm not a believer and I'd hardly be asking @GrushaVashnadze for sensitivity read if I was about to bury the hatchet in it.

Question - you allow weddings to take place in churches in Lit stories and you allow priests to do quite naughty things, don't you? (A quick search says yes)

I appreciate the warning but I dont think Im going anywhere near where you think I'm going.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Before you get too deep into it,

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Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

Oh for goodness sake, please learn the difference between a story mentioning people practicing religion. and 'promoting' that religion.

Many people are Catholic, many of them would go to confession in that situation, a scene with a priest makes perfect sense.

FWIW I would have said exactly what @GrushaVashnadze said, though I'm not a Catholic myself.

 

[yowser]

In one of my stories I had two Catholic college lovers adopt 'confession' as part of their foreplay, and their sins were always of a sexual nature, related in great detail. The penance was always ten Hail Marys with a mouth over a penis or a tongue up a quim.

Then I have him say "Hail Marys" to my cunt, but his tongue has to be inside me, he can't just talk to my cuntlips. So he is mumbling "Hail Mary" into my cunt and his lips are tickling my own cuntlips and I am laughing to beat the band, but I make him do the whole thing while his tongue is slithering in and out of me.

 

[TheRedChamber]

In one of my stories I had two Catholic college lovers adopt 'confession' as part of their foreplay, and their sins were always of a sexual nature, related in great detail. The penance was always ten Hail Marys with a mouth over a penis or a tongue up a quim.

Then I have him say "Hail Marys" to my cunt, but his tongue has to be inside me, he can't just talk to my cuntlips. So he is mumbling "Hail Mary" into my cunt and his lips are tickling my own cuntlips and I am laughing to beat the band, but I make him do the whole thing while his tongue is slithering in and out of me.

Careful, if you convert me, that's promotion!

 

[Nynah]

Then I have him say "Hail Marys" to my cunt, but his tongue has to be inside me, he can't just talk to my cuntlips. So he is mumbling "Hail Mary" into my cunt and his lips are tickling my own cuntlips and I am laughing to beat the band, but I make him do the whole thing while his tongue is slithering in and out of me.

That's certainly one way to be a practicing Moanin' Catholic.

 

[AG31]

Before you get too deep into it,

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Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

Oh, for crying out loud. They were just asking a factual question, presumably for some story they're writing. What is it with this super-strict interpretation of guidelines?

 

[gunhilltrain]

As an orthopraxist: Per-marital sex ~ 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys; Pre-marital sex - a whole rosary.

Could be, but I haven't been to Confession since about 1968 and to church at all since 1974. There are a lot of sites on line describing what the parishioner must do. But I don't think there is a "handbook for priests" telling them how much penance to assign to various sins. The way I understood it, he had the discretion to choose it himself. But I was taught that when I was finished, my soul was completely reset and I would go straight to heaven if I steeped outside and a truck ran me over.

Of course, the usual time was four weeks between sessions, so the assumption was that you would screw up something again and have to go back. There are lists of "venal sins" (time in purgatory) and "mortal sins" (straight to hell) if they weren't confessed and forgiven.

 

[TheLobster]

Can't help but notice that mods are behaving extra-Kareny as of late. Or maybe it's just jaF0?

Either way, I'm not a fan of this attempt of creating a chilling effect. It's not going to stop me from calling y'all idiots when you deserve it ;P

 

[DreamingOfMyEx]

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Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

"The medal was pinned on by FDR himself, and Mrs. Roosevelt invited him to join her for a cup of tea after the ceremony." - Fine
"Franklin and Eleanor have a threesome with Eva Braun." - Not Fine.
"Churches exist, and some people occasionally attend worship services there." - Fine.
"The Ayatollah and his 73 goats." - Not Fine.

Not sure why some looking for realism in a story would pretend grocery stores don't exist and nobody partakes of food.

You're welcome.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"The medal was pinned on by FDR himself, and Mrs. Roosevelt invited him to join her for a cup of tea after the ceremony." - Fine
"Franklin and Eleanor have a threesome with Eva Braun." - Not Fine.
"Churches exist, and some people occasionally attend worship services there." - Fine.
"The Ayatollah and his 73 goats." - Not Fine.

Not sure why some looking for realism in a story would pretend grocery stores don't exist and nobody partakes of food.

You're welcome.

Maybe Frank, the CEO of the corp, and his wife Ellie get one over on BrownCorp and their former CEO Eva gets (bdsm? noncon? group? fetish? lesbian? gender-swapped? magical?) repercussion(s)...

 

[DreamingOfMyEx]

Maybe Frank, the CEO of the corp, and his wife Ellie get one over on BrownCorp and their former CEO Eva gets (bdsm? noncon? group? fetish? lesbian? gender-swapped? magical?) repercussion(s)...

That should fly, as long as there are no churches or grocery stores to offend anyone.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Penances assigned in the Catholic confessional these days tend to be fairly symbolic indications of repentance, rather than full-on sackcloth and ashes. Your priest character sounds easy-going, and one-off pre-marital sex is a fairly common occurrence these days. Boring priests might simply ask them to pray an Our Father or a couple of Hail Marys as penance - as cliched as that seems. Priests who are more interesting, or who have more interest in eliciting some sort of genuine soul-searching in his flock, might ask them to read something from Scripture about the sanctity of marriage, e.g. Eph. 5:25-33 or Tobit 8:4-8.

For any further Catholic questions, feel free to PM me!

Raised Roman Catholic here, and I was about to point out to this, though none of the priests I've met would ask for reading Scripture as penance. All just asked some Our Father and Hail Marys... Maybe even to come to church for a Rosary before Mass.

Before you get too deep into it,

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"To that end, we DO NOT publish works of any type featuring the following content:​

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Works that promote or focus heavily on politics or religion, or political or religious figures."​

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https://www.literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines​

Not sure why you'd go anywhere near where you're going.

Must you, or any other mod, provoke any derailment again, like it happened in the Great Books thread?

 

[AlexBailey]

My mom and stepfather were already married when they met at our church.

They developed a cheating relationship, left their spouses and moved into a house they secretly bought together. They also kept a strong connection within the Catholic Church they continued going to.

Their assigned penance was to attend every Sunday, all of the special services, and to continue being heavily involved in the Church’s community activities. They often had rosarys in hand while watching TV - I’m not sure if they were praying but they did make laps around the beads.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

What would be an appropriate penance for pre-marital sex? The couple had intercourse once and this resulted in pregnancy. The couple will be married. They covered it up at first, but were found out quickly. The priest is relatively easy-going/pragmatic. He's going to give a 'be the best darn dad you can be' speech but I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to get any actual indication of what penance would actually be asked for (I swear search engines are getting worse and worse...) Any help appreciated.

EDIT: darn fat fingers had me asking about per marital sex.

Little Johnny goes to confession, "Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last confession."
"Well, tell me what you've done, my boy." Father O'Malley replies softly.
"I lied to me ma, and I took a girl out behind the barn and did improper things with her." Comes the response.
"Well, I know your ma, and I'm thinking she punished you enough for lying. Tell me about this girl. Who was she, so I can make sure she comes to confession, too."
"I cannot say, Father. It would hurt her reputation, and I'm not that kind of boy."
"That's all fair and good, johnny, but I need to know. Was it Cathy O'Brien?"
"Father, I don't think I should say."
"Johnny, I'm a priest. You can trust me. Was it Sarah Kelly?"
"Father, please. I'd best not say. Her pa would beat her badly if he found out."
"Alright, Johnny. Fair enough. Do ten Our Father's and ten Hail Mary's, put five quid in the poor box, and don't be doing such things."
"Thank you, father."

"So, what did you get?" Johnny's friend Ryan was waiting for him outside the confessional.
"Ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Mary's." Johnny shrugged, "Well that and two good leads."

 

[Boobytrap73]

My story Church Girl tells of a deeply religious but sexually curious virgin. Many of the scenes are dialog between the FMC and her pastor. It never named the religion but since it was a female pastor, we can guess what churches it wasn't.

~BT73

 

[PapaRomantic]

Perhaps the answer has to do with how aroused the priest gets while hearing the confession. More arousal means less penance? Or would it be the opposite - more penance for more arousal?

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Perhaps the answer has to do with how aroused the priest gets while hearing the confession. More arousal means less penance? Or would it be the opposite - more penance for more arousal?

I don't think OP wants the priest to feel aroused while hearing the confession.

Be that as it may, my dominant side says more penance = more arousal. A flogger would be required.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Little Johnny goes to confession, "Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been two weeks since my last confession."
"Well, tell me what you've done, my boy." Father O'Malley replies softly.
"I lied to me ma, and I took a girl out behind the barn and did improper things with her." Comes the response.
"Well, I know your ma, and I'm thinking she punished you enough for lying. Tell me about this girl. Who was she, so I can make sure she comes to confession, too."
"I cannot say, Father. It would hurt her reputation, and I'm not that kind of boy."
"That's all fair and good, johnny, but I need to know. Was it Cathy O'Brien?"
"Father, I don't think I should say."
"Johnny, I'm a priest. You can trust me. Was it Sarah Kelly?"
"Father, please. I'd best not say. Her pa would beat her badly if he found out."
"Alright, Johnny. Fair enough. Do ten Our Father's and ten Hail Mary's, put five quid in the poor box, and don't be doing such things."
"Thank you, father."

"So, what did you get?" Johnny's friend Ryan was waiting for him outside the confessional.
"Ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Mary's." Johnny shrugged, "Well that and two good leads."

That's the first time I've heard the joke that way round - it's always been the priest being happy about getting the leads off the boy!

 

[gunhilltrain]

I don't think OP wants the priest to feel aroused while hearing the confession.

Be that as it may, my dominant side says more penance = more arousal. A flogger would be required.

When I was a kid, I heard that priests would go to Confession too. I wondered what they could possibly confess. Now it seems obvious. In one story I wrote how they must have become bored hearing Confessions all Saturday afternoon, and that they would appreciate a good spicy story to make the day go by faster. They might have even prompted the parishioner for more details. "So what did it feel like when you discovered that you liked being spanked by your wife?"

Put "priest" into the tags portal and see what comes up. Go in via latest story and also by most popular. Plenty of people are writing about sex and religion. The most popular one has over 282 K views.