Waiting for restitution/reparation

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If one tells a lie, or steals,is it required that restitution/reparation is done immediately, or can it wait? Does one even have to do these things for salvation if it was a long time ago and would do more harm than good?
 
If you’ve made a mess of things, you owe it to the people you’ve hurt to put it all to rights ASAP.
 
Even if A) It was very small
B) It was a long time ago(I’m scrupulous sort of and I’ve heard to let it go)
C) Doing it ASAP would be much harder and overall worse
 
Dourbest said:
Even if A) It was very small
B) It was a long time ago(I’m scrupulous sort of and I’ve heard to let it go)
C) Doing it ASAP would be much harder and overall worse
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Recipe for disaster.
  1. Small thing.
  2. Long ago.
  3. Possibly forgotten by the “agrieved.”
  4. Feeds your OCD/scripulosity.
 
You seem to be talking about a specific act that you’re worried about. In that case, I’d say it sounds like the kind of question that it would be better to discuss with a priest, rather than a bunch of anonymous commenters on an internet forum.
 
Uhhh more like a few, but I am generally also pretty curious about waiting
 
For lying though, as in lying that happened months or years ago that doesn’t really currently negatively affect them? Can I wait for a better time to tell them? And I plan on it for the confessor part.
 
Yeah my confessor once told me something like say it when I;m sure I should, so I think it is judgement based
 
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