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others teach that it is better to put off the absolution, un
less the delay and privation of Communion should give
others grounds of suspicion injurious to the reputation
of the penitent. My opinion is, as I have stated in
my
Instructions to Confessors? that where there is no external
occasion, and the sins are committed through internal
frailty, such as blasphemies, hatred, pollution, morose
delectation, etc., it is seldom expedient to defer absolu
tion. For we may always hope for better fruit from the
aid of the grace which the penitent receives from the
sacrament than from the delay of absolution. But when
there is an external occasion, though necessary, I, as has
been already said, deem it expedient, and generally
speaking necessary, for the amendment of the penitent,
who is even disposed for the sacrament, to defer abso
lution.
1
Homo Apost. tr. tilt,
punct. 2.