Confession for Christmas

This sounds like a good idea.  Excerpts:

...A priest became pastor of a smaller rural parish, of approximately 300 registered families. The first Sunday of Advent, he announced to the parish that he wanted no Christmas presents from the parish that year – no gifts of money, or food, or gift certificates. Instead, the present he wanted from his new parish was for every member of the parish to go to confession during Advent.

To that end, he would add times for confessions during the week, bring in outside priests, and make the sacrament as available as possible.

To his surprise, the parish took him up on his offer...