DON'TS FOR PENITENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 31 December 1908, Page 3

DON'TS FOR PENITENTS

Don't crowd into the confessional ahead of some one else who was waiting before -you came. Don't tell any one's sins but your own. Don't mention another's name in telling your sins. Don't make the priest irritable by forcing him to repeat: 'How many times ?' foT-<*every mortal sin you confess. Don't forget it is a sin to accuse yourself wilfully of something yon have not committed, just as well as it is lo conceal a sin you have oommitted. Don't confess a doubtful sin as if it were not doubtful. Confess exactly as your conscience saw it. Don't fail to ask for special remedies against your, habitual sins if the priest forgets to give them. Take ~ an interest in your soul. Don't go to confession intending to use all the wiles and deceits of present, day worldly life to conceal aud shade over and soften down sins and circumstances . of sins necessary for the priest to know. ' ■"'•■-..". Don't flit about from priest to priest to escape a little scolding for habitual faults. Don't think a confessor :'s naturally severe and stern" because he is so with you. He may be the kindliest of the kindly with the one that goes before or follows you. Don't go to confession merely to relieve your mind. Don't talk so low in confessing that the priest can not hear. . ' ■ Don't talk so loud that everybody can hear you. Don't neglect to say your penance immediately after confession. Don't get the bliies because your confessor is changed to another parish.' ... ,: r < • Don't get the blues because he is not changed. — Victorian.