Confession is probably the only private sacrament in Christianity. It is so private that the priest is in no way bound to reveal the confession secrets under any kind of pressure, or allowed to deal with a person under the light of secrets revealed during confession. Confession is also done as the preparation for accepting the Holy Communion, the sacrament in which a devotee symbolically receives the body of Christ. First, a person goes to the church and expresses his desire to confess to the priest, he then chants the confession prayer through which he confesses about all his sins to Jesus, Mother Mary, Angels, Saints and all the people. Kneeling in his section of the chamber called the confessional, he confesses to the priest, who sits in another section partitioned off.
All communication is through a small window which connects the two sections.
In this way, the priest hears but cannot see the confessor. The priest then advises him on his sins and suggests the mode of penance, usually a symbolic gesture entailing the reading of some prayers. The priest then absolves the sins of the person with the Power of Christ. The person then chants the second part of the confession prayer by which he vows not to commit the sin again and says the prayers for the penance. Thus ends the sacrament of confession.