go to confession. Every time I see some workshop/talk/whatever on "The Sacrament of Reconciliation" which criticizes the proper way of confessing sins as required by the Council of Trent (number, kind, circumstances) and instructs people to "engage in an open dialogue with the priest to discuss what is going on in their moral life" and to "not focus so much on what they did wrong, but on what they did right" I become aggravated severely. With Catechesis like this, I feel very sorry for the traditional priests who help out with penitential services and have to patiently deal with such "confessions". I think this is very positive. I have heard Catholics who go through hard times whether due to employment issues or unemployment, family problems, health issues, or other concerns say often enough, "I don't know what I would have done without the Eucharist". And I quite agree however I have found in my own life that when going through major stressors or periods of intense difficulty for one reason or another that it was the grace found in the sacrament of confession that enabled me to keep going, and even overcome whatever hardship. It seems somewhat counterintuitive, to emphasize that sacrament when one can easily feel sorry for one's self and legitimately claim some victimhood status, but, mysteriously, even when one feels that all is against, that the cards are against, that there is no way out, and that one is a victim of horrible circumstance, that sacrament is