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Catholics: how often do you go to confession?
Between two weeks and once a month. Usually not at my regular parish, because they stubbornly try to have confession mostly at 10 am on a Monday type times.
Do you make the confession in plain language as a more banal description of exactly what you have done (or not done) or thought, or in vaguer terms (“I failed to do this”, “I allowed greed to get the better of me”)?
Confessions are supposed to be made in plain, banal language. EG, bless me father, I have sinned- it has been a month since my last confession and I have robbed three banks.... A typical example used in descriptions because it's plain, uncontroversial, and clearly hyperbolic, but illustrates the proper form very well. Number of occurrences of a particular sin is expected, but specificity of circumstances is discouraged. Confessing character flaws in vague terms alongside sins they contributed to is pretty normal(eg bad temper, laziness, etc) or at least not discouraged.
ETA- to answer another common question, yes, it looks like in the movies on average, very liberal priests like to try to set it up to look like a therapists office. Technically the screen/kneeler/booth setup is supposed to be available but it may or may not be at particularly liberal parishes. Any Catholic can go anywhere that is allowed to hear confessions for confession, with very few exceptions, and going to 'not your regular parish' is very common, either for scheduling reasons or because the priest seems less intimidating or just because.
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