(4) “Confess our sins.”  Having made the necessary preparation, you will next go into the confessional; and while you are waiting for the priest to hear you, you should say the Confiteor.  When the priest turns to you, bless yourself and say:  “Bless me, father, for I have sinned.  It is a month or a week (or whatever time it may be) since my last confession, and I have since committed these sins.”  Then tell your sins as you found them in examining yourself.  In confession you must tell only such things as are sins.  You must not tell all the details and a long story with every sin.  For example, if a boy should confess that he went to see a friend, and after that met another friend, and when he came home he was asked what had kept him, and he told a lie.  Now, the going to see the friend and the meeting of the other friend, and all the rest, was not a sin:  the sin was telling the lie, and that was all that should have been confessed.  Therefore, tell only the sins.  Then tell only your own sins, and be very careful not to mention anyone’s name—­even your own—­in confession.  Be brief, and do not say, I broke the First Commandment or the Second by doing so and so; tell the sin simply as it is, and the priest himself will know what Commandment you violated.  Again, when you have committed a sin several times a day do not multiply that by the number of days since your last confession and say to the priest, I have told lies, for example, four hundred and forty-two times.  Such things only confuse you and make you forget your sins.  Simply say, I am in the habit of telling lies, about so many, three or four—­or whatever number it may be—­times a day.  Never say “sometimes” or “often” when you are telling the number of your sins.  Sometimes might mean ten or it might mean twenty times.  How then can the priest know the number by that expression?  Give the number as nearly as you can, and if you do not know the whole number give the number of times a day, etc.  Never say “maybe” I did so and so; because maybe you did not, and the priest cannot judge.  Tell what you consider your worst sin first, then if there be any sin you are ashamed to tell or do not know how to tell, say to the priest:  “Father, I have a sin I am ashamed to tell, or a sin I do not know how to tell”; and then the priest will ask you some questions and help you to tell it.  But never think of going away from the confessional with some sin that you did not tell.  The devil sometimes tempts people to do this, because he does not like to see them in a state of grace and friends of God.  When you are committing the sin, he makes you believe it is not a great sin, and that you can tell it in confession; but after you have committed it he makes you believe that it is a most terrible sin, and that if you tell it, the priest will scold you severely.  So it is concealed and the person leaves the confessional with a new sin upon his soul—­that of sacrilege.  When Judas was tempted to betray Our Lord, he thought thirty pieces of silver a great deal of money; and then, after he had committed the sin, he cared nothing for the money, but went and threw it away, and thought his sin so dreadful that he hanged himself, dying in despair.