I've started reciting the Episcopal Confession and Absolution as a daily cleansing ritual.

[sir pball]

While I no longer practice or believe, I am a baptized Episcopalian (which has come in real handy arguing with my wife's ultra-Pent relatives, but I digress…) and I have always thought our concept of sin, confession, and forgiveness to be very sensible. Your sins are between you and God, there's no frickin' priest that has to hear and communicate. We simply admit we have sinned, and ask forgiveness. There is no middleman and no penitence. It's actually quite a refreshing way to start the day. It fits well with the yoga.

"Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen."

[lynintenn]

1. Still Episcopalian . We recite every Sunday.

Things left undone.We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Our Episcopal church

actually has a confessional if the member wants to confess to the priest. But yeah, it’s not a requirement for forgiveness.

[sir pball]

4. That was an option in my church, but we didn't have a confessional

You could meet with Father Tom in the office if there was a need, but I was never aware of anyone who ever did that. Not that he would have ever told, obviously.

[leftieNanner]

3. Me too

The ending prayer always touches me.

Send us now into the world in peace and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you with gladness and singleness of heart.

[Ocelot II]

5. Got that whole thing stuck in my memory -

"We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickednesses which we from time to time have most grievously committed against thy divine majesty, most justly provoking thy wrath and indignation against us" is kind of intense but there is some merit to acknowledging our own fuckups, whether there's a god to piss off or not. And it does fit with yoga and a lot of Buddhist stuff.

[sir pball]

7. ...the hell BCP were you reading from?

My recitation is from the 1979 edition, from what archaic "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" version did you have?

That is not like anything I have ever heard in an Episcopal church.

[Ocelot II]

9. That's the 1662 version, I think.

Used to go to the "high church" service because I liked the old ritual with the old BCP and Anglican chant. I'm kind of a traditionalist. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487379/The-General-Confession-from-the-Book-of-Common-Prayer-1662.html IIRC it's one of two alternatives in Rite I in the newer one.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Those prayers were part of Communion in the Methodist

church for a very long time. I figured they were from the Anglican/Episcopal BCP; since the Wesleys were Anglican priests.

We recited those prayers as part of the Communion service; by the time I was 9 I had them memorized. I have always loved them and also go back to them when I feel the need for a spiritual connection. I can also time travel a bit, back to my youth in our tiny little church.

Now we use this other, more modern service which I do not care for. However the old traditional one is still in the back of the Hymnal.

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I've been confirmed in that church, but I haven't been to an Episcopal service in awhile

God trusts Episcopalians enough to allow things like that

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. I use that or the Lord's Prayer with a rosary

Former Lutheran, switched to Episcopalian about 15 years ago due to Lutherans getting too "happy clappy" as my priest says. Started using the rosary as a sort of mantra before bed.

[wnylib]

10. Lutheran churches use the same general confession, word for word,

with a pause for silently naming any particular sins. The pause was never long enough for mine.

[Fla Dem]

11. Very similar to the Catholic Penitential Act

The Penitential Act
I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have sinned, in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
(strike breast) through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault; therefore
I ask blessed Mary ever Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Not said in the confessional, but during Mass as preparation for Holy Communion.

In the confessional, you simply say,

Bless me Father for I have sinned. The you recite whatever sins you need forgiven.

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Brought up by an atheist and an agnostic, but they had me baptized in a little

church in Wales. Church of England.

So, if I'm anything, I guess I'm Episcopalian too.

[Different Drummer]

13. I'm Episcopalian myself and have recited many of the prayers mentioned in this thread.

I'm a lifelong Episcopalian.