Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: January | Volume: 8 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 357-367
Directive Speech Acts of the Catholic Priests on the Rite of Confession of Sin and the Implementation of Penance by Catholics in Medan City
Ermina Waruwu1, Emma Martina Pakpahan2, Benediktus B. Kurniadi3
1,2,3Universitas Prima Indonesia, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Ermina Waruwu
ABSTRACT
The directive speech acts of the Catholic Priests are communication or speech that is conveyed to the penitent to apply penance in real life. Penitence is received by the penitent when confessing sins to the Priests. This research aimed to describe the factors of the minimum participation of Catholics to confess sins, the speech acts of the Priest's directive, and the application of Catholic pension. The research problem was based on interviews with 2 (two) priests who said that only 2.05% of the 24,444 Catholics confessed. The research subjects consisted of 12 priests and 25 Catholics who were selected by purposive sampling. The technique of collecting data used Google Form contains questions answered by the Priests and the people. The theoretical approach used a pragmatic approach while the research approach used descriptive qualitative and data analysis by reducing, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. To measure the validity of the data used triangulation techniques. The results showed that the factor of the lack of confession was that the people did not understand confession; it was considered that confession was not guaranteed its confidentiality; the people were ashamed and afraid to confess their sins. The directive speech acts of the Priests to Catholics consist of speech acts that are asking, inviting, suggesting, ordering, and expecting. The point was that people confess their sins to the Priest. Catholics practice penance in the form of prayer, charity, charity work and service to others, abstinence voluntarily, and sacrificing. Finally, both the priest and the congregation recommended that a catechesis program on the confession of sins be held to increase the active participation of the people in confessing sins both in quantity and quality. The results of this study were useful for helping priests to formulate programs or make catechetical policies for confession of sins to Catholics. Besides, it is useful to increase the active participation of Catholics to confess their sins according to the orders of the Catholic Church.
Keywords: Directive Speech Act, Catholic Priests, Penitence, Confession of Sins.
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