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To: AnAmericanMother; NYer
"So it's really a "feel-good" waste of time, that's all"

Another detail often missed is that one who's received General Absolution (for example a soldier prior to a battle), must go to individual Confession upon surviving the grave situation to receive a proper Reconciliation.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
7 posted on 10/06/2005 7:32:46 PM PDT by SaltyJoe (A mother's sorrowful heart and personal sacrifice redeems her lost child's soul.)
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To: SaltyJoe
You are absolutely correct.

Can. 962 (1) For a member of the Christian faithful validly to receive sacramental absolution given to many at one time, it is required not only that the person is properly disposed but also at the same time intends to confess within a suitable period of time each grave sin which at the present time cannot be so confessed.

(2) Insofar as it can be done even on the occasion of the reception of general absolution, the Christian faithful are to be instructed about the requirements of the norm of (1). An exhortation that each person take care to make an act of contrition is to precede general absolution even in the case of danger of death, if there is time.

Can. 963 Without prejudice to the obligation mentioned in Can. 989, a person whose grave sins are remitted by general absolution is to approach individual confession as soon as possible, given the opportunity, before receiving another general absolution, unless a just cause intervenes.

9 posted on 10/06/2005 7:42:12 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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