Taking a (paper) list of sins to Confession

[CuriousInIL]

A concern would be for the reputation of the priest and the appearance that he had broken the Confessional seal. If someone else finds your list and starts telling others about your sins, someone may think that the priest has broken the Confessional seal. I never bring lists anymore partially because I don’t want anyone questioning the integrity of the Sacrament or the Confessor.

I don’t get that concern about losing a list.

 

[I_Thirst]

I can understand getting a little nervous when going into reconciliation, especially if one doesn’t go too frequently (or perhaps one has a nervous disposition). Still, why are lists needed? Were someone going for the first time in years or maybe just once a year I could understand needing a list.

Duly noted that venial sins are forgiven in ways outside of reconciliation (such as receiving the Eucharist, see the Cathechism #1416) and that it is efficacious to confess venial sins.

But if one were to forget to confess a venial sin, it would not be as unfortunate as forgetting a mortal sin. I can’t imagine needing a list for my mortal sins, but perhaps it could happen. And as far as venial sins, I know that I work on eradicating certain ones and these are the ones I bring into the confessional rather than a laundry list of all my venial sins.

Is the need for a list of venial sins scrupulous or just practical?

 

[Hoernchen]

I know that in the US I’ve said it during confession, or sometimes the priest will tell to me make an act of contrition afterwards (but not during).

Is this what you mean?

Well, going by what I’ve read in some threads here, in the US (and in France afaik, but not in Germany) it is expected to pray the act of contrition before absolution. The question: was my confession valid if I forgot to say the act of contrition? pops up here ever so often.
There is no prescribed prayer to end your confession, one could actually end it with: well, that’s all I can think of. Which I have done more times than I care to remember. But over time I began to dislike that and searched for something more spiritual and elegant. So now I always end my confession with the official act of contrition as is found in the compendium of the catechism.