Invalid Confession?

[Wikitiki]

Okay, to make a long story short, I generally have to wait weeks to go to confession (generally due to anyone who could drive me being busy most of the available times), but last week I was able to go the day after I committed a mortal sin. I was absolved, did my penance, and received the Eucharist the next day, but a few days afterwards I committed the same exact mortal sin again. I usually last a month or so before falling into grave sin.

Basically, I'm afraid I didn't give myself time to feel true contrition. I'm afraid I hadn't properly felt sorry and renounced sin, or at least not as well as I thought I had. I believed I felt true contrition, but perhaps I really hadn't. Is this grounds for a sacrilegious or invalid confession (and I suppose a sacrilegious reception of the Eucharist as well)? Or is this just a personal weakness unrelated to how sorry and convicted to change I felt before confession?

(did that make any sense?)

[Jaime]

Habitual grave sin doesn't necessarily mean you weren't absolved. Confession doesn't make us perfect, it makes us forgiven. If it made us perfect we would only have to go once. The Church teaches that habitual grave sin requires confession and temporal punishment. Temporal punishment would be things like fasting on a regular basis. Temporal punishments help to train us not to succumb to habitual sins and repeat them. Temporal punishments are not so much punitive as they are about gaining discipline in your life. They help us to become more holy and overcome the sins that we constantly bring back to confession.