Post #5615

We are not fit to receive absolution unless we have turned away from our habitual sins and from whatever the kind of proximate occasions of sin. It is not enough to promise that we will avoid them. If we go to Confession without having done so in fact or are unwilling to do so without delay, the Confession is sacrilegious, the absolution, if we receive it, is unavailing, and we place ourselves in danger of damnation. —St. John Baptiste de La Salle, Treatise on the Sacrament of Penance