@salliperson Sorry for any confusion or vagueness in my choice of words. I'll be more clear. Reading accounts from different people who have gone to Confession while at Medjugorje, and some videos of people speaking about their Confessions while there, many receive the grace of a deep and penetrating understanding of how they have sinned against God, some reduced to tears and deep, overwhelming compunction and even Perfect Contrition.
These salutary dispositions (as opposed to going to Confession out of custom or habit, and/or lacking a deep compunction appropriate to one's sins, with less-than-Perfect Contrition) have the effect of even greater graces of satisfaction and remission of the penalties due to sin upon making one's Confession.
This factor of "spiritual disposition" when receiving the Sacraments, and how this affects the sacramental fruits of one's reception of those Sacraments -- especially the fruit of "satisfaction" for the penalty of sin when confessing one's sins -- is taught in Moral Theology, Thomas Aquinas, etc.
IN FACT....that is why Saint Mary Magdalene, weeping for her sins with love, and bathing our Lord's feet under the impact of such a salvific, heart-piercing sorrow is the preeminent role model for penitents and the complete remission of one's sins and penalties through
perfect sorrow.
I have made a number of General Confessions, but it was clearly after graces such as those mentioned above, that my soul experienced far greater spiritual benefits and fruits.