Question about confessing sins

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If you go to confession, confess all the sins you are aware of, then later go on to remember an old mortal sin you commited, do you have to go back to confession before receiving the Eucharist? If yes, why? Aren’t you absolved from all your sins because you tried making a good confession? Thanks.
 
No you don’t, but you should bring up that sin during your next confession.
 
If you don’t bring it up in your next confession, are you then in a state of mortal sin again?
 
No, the sin is already forgiven. But why wouldn’t you if you were truly sorry for it?
 
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Really? Where’d you learn that from?
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Just knowledge of what confession requires with regards to unconfessed mortal sins. All mortal sins remembered must be confessed that have not yet been directly remitted by the keys. The obligation to confess all unconfessed mortal sins is binding. CIC 988.1.

A forgiven sin is forgiven and it is Catholic teaching that no forgiven sin revives. A forgotten mortal sin is indirectly forgiven in a good confession. But if it is remembered, then the obligation binds so the Church can directly remit it with the keys. the intentional omission of a sin that one is bound to confess incurs a new sin. That sin is sacrilege.
 
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If you deliberately omit an unconfessed mortal sin in confession, yes that is a mortal sin.
 
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