It seems that former merits are also recovered, notnecessarily in their entirety, but in a degree that corresponds withthe greater or less excellence of repentance. r acceptance of giftsby those who can reasonably be suspected of exercising undue influenceor of being subject to undue influence. An example of thisis furnished by Our Lord, who prayed earnestly during the agony in thegarden and the desolation on the cross. forbade to Adam the fruit of onetree and to the Jews the flesh of certain animals; and the Church fromthe days of the Apostles (Acts, xv.
(a) Strict mental reservation is that in which the internalmodification is manifested by nothing external, neither by the naturalsense of the words (i. Thus, a surgeon operating for hernia may remove a healthyappendix, should the danger of adhesions be foreseen that would requirea later operation. --(a) An incautious or disrespectful oath is fromits nature only a venial sin, since its malice consists, not in anydirect injury to the divine Forgiveness of Sin through the Use of the Sacraments.
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