conuly

The parish here in England, confession is done from behind a screen, so it's more or less anonymous. But at home, yes, we do sit face to face and talk to the priest, though. Although there is an option to sit behind the screen and I like that better.

Catholics do use rosaries (I just got an e-mail from Newman Club at home about praying the rosary on Tuesdays) just not during Mass. That pretty much ended during the Reformation. You have to participate in Mass now, so you can't really just sit there and pray the rosary. But I actually pray it on pretty much a weekly basis.

I wish we still said Mass in Latin. :/

And we don't give up meat for all of Lent anymore (unless that's what you're giving up), just on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays. I wasn't aware that it "wasn't done" on Fridays anymore. I'm pretty sure that the Church's regulations say "no meat on Fridays" and my church always has a fish fry on those days.