Mortal Sin Concerning Stealing

[havok579257]

So I know if you steal something small then its a venial sin. I also know if you steal a lot of something small then it becomes a mortal sin. so then what about this hypothetical scenerio.


i steal something small but i go to confession for it. so i have been absolved. i do this for a while. every time i have the intent to not steal again but i end up doing it regardless. so the question is because i have been absolved of stealing those small things, can it still turn into a mortal sin because of the cumlative stolen items/money from whomever i stole from? hope i worded it right?

[cappie]

To persist in sin is, not to abandon it. If a person should only occasionally, under the force of temptation, fall into a sin, any form of sin, and should repent and abandon it for a time, and should only occasionally be overcome by a temptation to commit that form of sin, it would not be proper to say that he persisted in it. For, according to this supposition, he is not wilful, or obstinate, or habitual in the commission of this sin; but it is rather accidental in the sense that the temptation sometimes overtakes and overcomes him notwithstanding his habitual abandonment of it and resistance to it.

Any sin confessed is forgiven. So it's not a case of "adding up" past sins.

However if the commission be a thing allowed, a thing indulged in--such a sin is persisted in. Persistence in any form of sin cannot consist with supreme love to God or equal love to our neighbour, so we could say that such would be a Mortal sin.