You're right. I was focusing on the three Hail Marys stuff and forgot about this. I may have been naughty enough, I suspect, but I guess the confessors took pity on me. Actually, what happens is that the penitent is told to do something, or refrain from doing something more likely, and during some period of time, he or she might be barred from communion. An instance might be when a couple is living together without being married. The priest refuses them communion, tells them that they msut come to confession and one or the other is sleeping on the couch until the wedding; in the meantime, no communion.
and one or the other the man is sleeping on the couch until the wedding.
Grass is green, oceans are blue and men get the couch. ;)