Hi there Thistle…I had a peek at your profile hoping to find in which country you are residing, but it does not appear. No matter!
Here in Australia and from what I have heard it is everywhere in Australia in the parishes if one gets four people attending confession in a 45minute span of the Sacrament (some parishes 30 mins) and usually on a Saturday morning…Father would be very busy indeed by comparison with the number who usually attend and often none at all!
I can recall pre V2 needing to wait and wait until one’s turn came up to enter the Confessional…most days I attend now some 40 years after V2, I could go straight into the Confessional with no wait at all as no one is ever there but me!
I think our priests would be absolutely delighted and over the moon if there were heaps of people wanting to go to Confession!
Even in our big Cathedral when Confessions are heard, if I needed to wait 10 minutes it would be very unusual…there is hardly ever anyone there!
Hence from my experience I doubt very much that there would be so many people in the state of Grace for Plenary Indulgence reasons attending that people in mortal sin were unable to attend The Sacrament. From my experience to date, I just cannot anticipate this problem. Even when we have a Public Second Rite of Confession with First Rite being heard by two priests in different confessionals, hardly anyone ever goes to a Confessional for traditional First Rite private confession.
At times there is no alternative but to lay our concerns aside and just trust God to take care of things no matter outcome…once one has exhausted any available reasonable means of meeting whatever may be our concerns.
Barb