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So I’d say yes, it was a mortal sin, not because what you did see was genially sinful, but because you were willing to expose yourself to a strong temptation. ...So, don’t take Communion if you can’t get to Confession before tomorrow, but do make an Act of Contrition and decide what you’re going to do when this type of temptation comes on you again, and it will!
Indirect impurity is mortalwhen there is proximate danger of grave sin in the act done, that is,when the posited act _per se_ or from its nature strongly incites theagent to sɛҳuąƖ passion, as when one gazes long and fixedly at obscenepictures, knowing that always or nearly always this arouses impureemotions. The sin is venial when there is only remote danger of gravesin. This happens when the posited act is not of a venereal kind (anunnecessary conversation on indifferent topics) or is only mildlyexciting (e.g., a passing glance at an obscene object), or when theagent himself is not greatly affected by it (e.g., when an old man, orone who is of very cold disposition, or an artist whose only thought isthe esthetic excellence, carefully studies a picture of the nude).
This might be useful to you too:From Moral Theology, by John A. McHugh and Charles J. Callan.Imprimatur+ FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMANArchbishop of New YorkNew York, May 24, 1958https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35354
Thank you very much for this. So my sin is venial. I will refrain from confess until 1 week has passed. (My confessor has told me not to go to confession more than once per week unless i commit a mortal sin).