On February 16, 2014, there was an article that appeared in the Boston Globe that was entitled “Catholic Confession’s Steep Price.” The article was quick to point out and I quote “Fifty years ago, the great majority of Catholics in this country confessed their sins regularly to a priest. Confession, after all, is one of the seven Catholic sacraments. But now only 2 percent of Catholics go regularly to confession, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Georgetown University—and three-quarters of them never go, or go less than once a year. In many parishes, the sacrament is currently available only by appointment.” Perhaps, the reason for the decline is that we either have forgotten the purpose of the Sacrament of Confession or never truly understood it. In Matthew, Chapter 4, we read that from the time Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been imprisoned, He began to preach. Christ’s first word, like that of John