I was thinking about why perhaps the NO has introduced this new communal service for confessing sins. Where, twice a year, many of the parishioners pack into the church to confess their sins none the less privately. And, I cannot help thinking that it may be a mirror measure taken similar to the communal sacrilege for reception of holy communion. Where, the "more the merrier" is the maxim. For example, and I have seen it on video. People will walk up to the NO communion priest with hands crossed over the chest meaning "I am not going to receive communion", and the priest shoves the wafer into the mouth of the person who looks upon receiving it surprised because they thought according to instructions such and such. But, surprise, today you are eating bread with the rest of the bread eaters. They went forward with hands crossed, but are forced to communion anyways. As if, the NO doesn't care who receives it, and we would all agree that is largely the case.
And, this leads me to believe that they think sacrilege might not be so bad in terms of temporal consequences when done with more people. So, with confession, which is a precept of the church, which they have to do, committing sacrilege with a bad confession will not be so harmful temporally if they do it with others at the same time. So, they crowd all of the sacrilegious into the church at the same time to be all be sacrilegious together. Do, you understand? I think that is what is going on with these confession services. This is why you do not see these liberals in the latin mass churches committing sacrilege. They cannot spiritually be in communion with Jєωs or others who eat unleavened bread with their hands to fill their bellies. And, they cannot be in physical communion/proximity to other liberals in the latin mass, because, liberals don't generally go to the latin mass. This I suspect is their thinking, and they are applying it to these penitential services.
Also, services like this don't negate the fact that contrition for sins must be present for valid confession. So, if these parishioners wont confess their sins outside of a service like this, perhaps because they do not have firm purpose of amendment, then a service like this doesn't negate that requirement, and it does them no good. And, they would know this, but if you have enough people doing it, that makes it right, right? Wrong.