You are blessed to have weekly access to a traditional priest for confession. Most trads do not.

Have you thought of making a true devotion consecration to Our Lady by St. Louis De Montfort as a way of naturally keeping the vow for weekly confession? A person who was truly devoted to Our Lady under the rubric of St. Louis De Montfort would be driven to weekly confession.

Confessions of devotion and I would look at your predominant fault that would need to be worked on.

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Have you thought of making a true devotion consecration to Our Lady by St. Louis De Montfort as a way of naturally keeping the vow for weekly confession? A person who was truly devoted to Our Lady under the rubric of St. Louis De Montfort would be driven to weekly confession.

Yes, I have considered that consecration, but never in terms of "keeping the vow for weekly confession."   It would certainly be one more reason to consider taking that big step.

Being "forced" by your own vow to humbly go to confession, especially when you might feel particularity weary, humiliated, or ashamed should really help in so many powerful ways.  

I think weekly confession, regardless of your own particular inclinations, is such a powerful pillar of the spiritual life to build on.  Many of us I think have to fight a spirit of luke warmness setting in where we tend to lose our fervor of prayer life and the fervor we should have in all other aspects of our spiritual life.  (In this modern world with so many of its material distractions the mind/spirit can become so easily dissipated. One of the easiest things to put off then is confession!)  When that luke warmness sets in we are moving incrementally to a blindness and or greater rationalization of our little and later bigger sins/faults.

I am up in years.  I know I must waste no more time and feel quite bad for all the time I have already wasted.  Time is too valuable, far too valuable to waste.  I certainly can't presume on my eternal salvation.  I must work it out in  fear and trembling.

I don't want to be one of that immense number that end up being eternally lost and at the same time I realize that the more I have been given -- and I have been given a tremendous amount of blessings and talents in life -- the more I will be held accountable for.  That thought can be a dreadful one when we realize how short we have all fallen of the mark.  It is easy to look at the great sinner and say, "Ah, but for the grace of God go I" than it is to look at a saint and say, "Ah, but for my lack of cooperation with God's grace go I."  I want to grow in virtue and not remain sluggish in petty vices which like as St. John of the Cross teaches us: a string around the bird can hold it back from flying free just as surely as a heavy chain can.

That is all why I look very forward to making this solemn vow under the guidance of my priest/confessor/spiritual director before the altar of God.  May I humbly pray that God give me the strength, desire, light, and courage to carry out what I believe to be the right thing for me to do.

What do you do if you have no sins to confess? Do you still go to confession? I mean what do you do if you do not commit a venial sin for a whole week? If you go to weekly confession and you have no sins to confess, what do you do?

Go regardless. At the very least, it would be profitable for your soul by increasing sanctifying grace and protection from the Devil. You can always confess again the sins of your previous life and also be sorry for the sins you are not aware of. Pray fervently so the Holy Ghost actually shows you the sins you are guilty of and remove that veil off your eyes. This is not as easy as it seems, in reality be aware of all our sins, that is. Most sinners are completely unaware of their sins by a devil-inflicted blindness and as a consequence for unconfessed sins.

You can say briefly at the end "for these sins.... and also all the of my previous life and the sins I am not aware of, I am deeply sorry and ask forgiveness from God and from you Father...."

We are told in no uncertain terms by St. Alphonsus to follow our Spiritual Director. Follow him and you will sail to the ark of salvation.

Anything less than martyrdom, given what is going on in the world, would seem inadequate for salvation, IMO.

Opinions don't count much and it's not wise to lay down your own conditions on what is necessary for salvation.

all folks seem to care about is carefully obtaining their Golden Ticket to the Pearly Gates.

That does not happen anywhere I go or anywhere I have been. Most people don't care a hoot; they're too busy living for the moment.