Good luck trying to get to confession on Ash Wednesday in the NO even though it is a premiere day of penance that kicks off Lent. I've tried this in the past. They offer 16 "ash services" that day and not one confession. Isn't even a holy day of obligation and they offer 3-4 masses to distribute ashes to the Ash Wednesday Catholics who go to church twice a year if they're lucky. Meanwhile any Catholic in mortal sin on that day who is in danger of death better hope he made a perfect act of contrition, because if not he's toast. But at least the Novus Ordites got their ashes!