If you were absolved then that’s the end of it, sacramentally at least. Your priest may well wish to pick up where you left off at another time in order to go through the sins you didn’t get time to cover even though these are really absolved because the sacrament is about healing and help and not simply some sort of mechanical transaction in which sins are confessed and absolution given.
Why would such a person not simply do a normal confession?
A regular Confession covers your sins since your last Confession. A General Confession is a spiritual exercise to review your entire life; it can be beneficial in helping your Confessor understand you more than a “snapshot” that a regular Confession would be. It also helps the penitent assess their lifelong faith journey as well. Patterns in sinful behavior can be made clearer through a General Confession.
Okay. That makes sense. I thought it was about confessing the same sins already confessed and forgiven which would not make sense. You can’t forgive something already forgiven.
