C. Two Corollaries

23. From these conclusions follow two corollaries:

One that the healthy man be persuaded to be penitent while healthy, by exciting in himself the fear how dangerous it is to await a late penitence, for the reasons just stated [nn.14, 17, 19, 21].

24. The other corollary, that he who is infirm, now brought to this point [of death], must be persuaded to work, according to his possibility, for an ordered penitence, namely so that, notwithstanding his pain or fear, he use reason as much as he can and strive to have voluntary displeasure for the right end, that is, for the sake of God; and so that he strive against the bad inclination of habit and present delights and labor to have as much displeasure, though brief, as he can have about them; and, so that he not be sent into despair, he must extol the divine mercy, by proposing to himself the example of the thief, whose penance was late but not late his indulgence [n.9].