Spiritus Sanctus dixit sponse negligenti absolucionem accipere pro peccatis, quod peccatum veniale fit mortale per contemptum.
The Necessity of Absolution
The Spirit instructs Birgitta to seek the absolution she missed, emphasizing the importance of sacramental order.
Once, when Lady Birgitta was at confession, her confessor was called away by a certain priest. He got up in a hurry and forgot to give her absolution. And when the Lady was about to get into bed and knelt down, the Spirit said: "Get up, daughter, and humble yourself to receive absolution, because your Master has not absolved you." Once she had received absolution, the Holy Spirit spoke to her again:
The Danger of Contempt
The Spirit warns that neglecting small sins leads to spiritual hardening and the escalation of venial faults into mortal ones.
Anyone who doesn't pay attention to the smallest things falls into greater ones. Even a venial sin, one that your conscience pricks you about, will become mortal if it's practiced and continued, and it will be punished more severely because of your contempt.1
Read the original Latin
Cum domina Birgitta semel confiteretur, confessor suus vocatus est a quodam sacerdote. Qui surgens celerius oblitus est dare absolucionem. Cumque domina ingressura lectum flecteret genua, dixit Spiritus:
"Surge, filia, et humilia te ad absolucionem, quia magister tuus te non absoluit." Cui optenta absolucione iterum dixit Spiritus Sanctus:
"Omnis, qui non attendit ad minima, cadit in maiora. Nam eciam veniale peccatum, de quo remordetur consciencia, si exercetur et continuatur, fiet mortale et grauius propter contemptum punietur."
Notes
- 1 ↩The term 'remordetur' (pricks/stings) is used here to describe the active, painful movement of conscience regarding sin.
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