We relate to others and to God in accordance with what is in our hearts—our very being, as untainted by sin as we can be.
His experiences with children are colored by the ugliness in his heart. Yes, dignity. The devil would love for you to grossly underestimate your own God-given dignity! It makes his work much easier when we do. Good Catholics are probably in a state of grace as their norm, with mortal sin the exception. However, we are called to partake of the Sacrament of Penance regularly.
How does this jive with your advice to scrupulous and non-scrupulous persons? You have deceived yourself, which harms you. You have also perverted the worship you owe to the true God, which is unjust. If you look at the Old Testament, idol worship is not proscribed because it harms others, but because — in a way — it robs the worshiper.
It takes his piety, energy and devotion and gives him nothing in return. It also is an affront to God, cutting against the grain of the universe He created. Anything that harms you like sin harms everyone. We are all here together, and when you weaken yourself, you rob the rest of us of the help we might have received from you.
If a man spends his time in empty and mindless pursuits, always looking to be entertained and never trying to grow, then right in the spot where the world needed a wise man there will be just another useless twit. That hurts everyone, most especially those closest to the useless twit.
The harm done in worshipping the golden calf is infinite, because you have given the honors due to God alone to something that is not-God, and denied God what should be His. Everyone with a well formed concscience knows when he has committed a mortal sin. God bless you. As others have indicated, you gravely harm yourself by turning your will away from its true end. Germain Grisez offers an interesting analysis of the moral theology of mortal sin in The Way of the Lord Jesus you can read a popular abridged account in Fulfillment in Christ.
Thomas makes explicit and that is required by traditional Catholic theology. There is a lot of difference of opinion here. I am inclined to beleive that mortal sin can be avoided by any person who has made a real effort to pursue holiness. For example, impure thoughts are pretty hard to avoid. Masturbation is not if you make an real effort. There is a line that has been crossed to sin with your body. That physical act has spiritual consequences. That makes sense. But such impure thoughts only become a sin if you act on them.
After all, you are ONLY human. Deliberate indulgence in impure thoughts is a mortal sin. This is the teaching of the Church. Jesus tells us this when he warns that imagining adultery is just as bad as doing it. Or that we can engage in them through habit, which may reduce the subjective blame. I think that Esau would agree that deliberately indulging in impure thoughts would consitute an action.
Bill: Perhaps you are right. I guess he can clear that up! Thank you, bill The fact of the matter is that such thoughts may pop up as a normal part of the human condition though, if it was a picture of a man that peaked your personal sexual interest, I would not call that normal.
What does dwell mean? How long does one need to think about something impure before you are dwelling? I would say so. The physical act is important. He was simpy saying avoiding the physical act is not the goal. The goal is to be perfect as Mt says. That does not mean everything short of perfection is mortal sin.
The Catechism talks about the ten commandments. That seems right here. The physical acts of sex or masturbation are mortal. Covetting a woman who is out of bounds is mortal. Covet is a more than a passing thought. It is hard to define but you kind of know when you are doing it. The thinking that puts virtually every sin into the mortal area really leads back to protestant thinking. Confession becomes impossible because sin is mortal unavoidable even for a while. Mortal sins are serious acts that destroy your faith.
We know they are mortal from experience as well. When someone stops going to mass regularly it kill their relationship with God. Same if they decide to sleep with their girlfriend. We all know people who have done these things. We know they are mortal because we can see the damage they do.
Many of us have not just seen it in others but experienced it ourselves. Some of the saints say so, and that disbelief in hell is a major reason why people wind up there. Dwelling on an impure thought, to me, would mean that; 1 You consciously realize that you are having an impure thought 2 You choose to keep the thought going, to indulge it, to enjoy it.
No, I was going the opposite direction. I was trying to argue that thoughts in themselves would not be mortal. I guess I botched the communication badly. My thinking was that sin when it is full grown results in death in James I think. The idea was that venial sin is not full grown. It is when you stop somewhere on the slippery slope and decide to go back. When you let impure thoughts get to their logical climax you get masturbation or sex.
So that sin does not become full grown and does not lead to death. But, Randy, that seems to be exactly what Jesus was addressing when he gave His teaching on adultery. Or 2 Knowledge that it is grave sin?
Does that sin separate him from Christ? Can a Protestant in such a situation ever commit a mortal sin? That is if you failed to take reasonable action to see if the act was sinful. The classic example is the moving of the Ark of the Covenant. Still Oza was struck dead because of it. Does God strike people dead for venial sins? Unlike money, which one can have in greater or lesser amounts, conjugal love cannot be divided.
It is all or nothing. The choice for sexual pleasure involves either the marital embrace or an act of unchastity. Accordingly, no sin against the sixth commandment can be considered a light affair.
The ninth commandment forbidding impure thoughts, on the other hand, may admit of light matter. Taking the life of an innocent person would indisputably be grave matter. Other sins against the fifth commandment could also be considered grave under certain circumstances. Sin does not represent the violation of an arbitrary whim, like the rules of a board game.
Instead, sin contradicts the truth about the human person. The moral law is like the law of gravity—it is built into human nature. In just the same way, a sin of grave matter means a serious one, serious in its object. The gravity of sins is not arbitrarily assigned. While some theologians may hesitate to talk about grave sin, school kids at parishes across our country are learning its plain truth just fine.
Curtis Perry CC. Most people know the difference between a mortal and a venial sin. But what constitutes a sin of "grave matter"? Tags: Faith Lent Sacraments. Support Aleteia! Both acts are gravely sinful when they condemn the innocent, exonerate the guilty or increase punishment of the accused.
They are of grave matter because they contradict justice CCC Adulation— Adulation is verbal speech or an attitude that encourages or confirms another in malicious acts and perverse conduct.
Lying— Lying is the most direct offense against the truth. It is gravely sinful when it significantly degrades the truth. The gravity of this sin is measured by the truth it perverts, the circumstances, intentions of the liar and harm done to the victims CCC Lust— Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. It is disordered because sexual pleasure must not be isolated from its true, natural place: within the Sacrament of Matrimony that is ordered to procreation of children and a unifying love between husband and wife CCC Lust, a sin and vice of the flesh, is often a difficult vice to overcome.
Human weakness of will and lack of conformity to God is a result of the fall of mankind that causes a disorder between soul and body called concupiscence which is often manifested in lust.
Yet, lust is a sin that can be overcome through prayer and grace through the Christian sacraments. Christ wills that we overcome lust and replace it with Christian love and purity of heart Matthew Avarice — Avarice is greed and the desire to amass earthly goods without limit.
It is a passion for riches and luxury. Those who seek temporal happiness at the expense of spiritual duties, risk the grave sin of avarice. Avarice is one of the deadly vices CCC Envy can lead to grave consequences and can harm neighbors.
If envy leads to grave harm to a neighbor, it is surely a grave sin. Voluntary doubt of faith — Voluntary doubt of faith is disregarding the revealed truth of God and his Church CCC Those who do this risk spiritual blindness and loss of faith. Incredulity, heresy, apostasy, schism —Incredulity is the neglect of revealed truth or willful refusal to assent to it.
Heresy is obstinate post-baptismal denial of a truth that must be believed with divine and catholic faith. Apostasy is total repudiation of the Christian faith. These sins strain or break the bonds of unity with the offender and the Catholic Church.
Despair in hope — Those who despair in hope, cease to hope in salvation from God or help in attaining forgiveness of sin CCC Indifference— This grave sin entails neglect or refusal on divine charity a.
Those who sin in indifference fail to consider the goodness of charity, and deny its power CCC Ingratitude— An ungrateful sinner fails or refuses to acknowledge and return the love and charity of God CCC It can also mean the refusal to give oneself to the prompting of charity CCC Acedia spiritual sloth — Spiritual sloth, a capital sin, is the refusal of joy that comes from God. An sinner who indulges in acedia may even be repelled by divine goodness CCC Hatred of God— This grave sin is born of pride and is contrary to the love of God.
A sinner who hates God willfully rejects him. Of course we must realize that this is certainly not a complete list of sins. The sins that are listed above are those of grave matter that can become mortal sins if they are done willfully and with full knowledge of their nature. Other sins are of venial nature, and are less grave than the ones listed above. As stated before, venial sin is a sin of lesser matter than grave sin.
It can also be a sin of grave matter in which the sinner did not fully consent to the sin or did not have knowledge that his actions where sinful. Venial sins will not destroy grace in the soul, and will not directly cause a person who dies in the state of venial sin to lose the promise of heaven. Regardless, all sin is an offense against God and should be avoided.
A person who repents of their sin, intends to live a new life of grace, and receives the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be forgiven of all their sins mortal sins in particular must be confessed in the Sacrament. Our sins can be forgiven, because Jesus Christ paid for the price of human sin by dying on the cross for the redemption of humanity.
Jesus Christ, true man and true God, was the perfect sacrifice for human sin and as a result saved those who are baptized, repent and believe in him. Because a baptized Christian can still sin, Christ instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus gave the power to forgive sins in his name to the Church.
It is vitally important that Catholics confess sins on a regular basis, especially if we are in the state of mortal sin. A person who dies in mortal sin cannot enter the kingdom of heaven and is doomed to eternal suffering in hell. Even when we have not committed mortal sin, we are still obliged to confess our sins at least once a year. Christ, in perfect love, laid down his life so that we may be forgiven of our sins. The sacrifice of the cross should not be neglected or taken for granted.
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