Sentences with phrase «many venial»

You have to give to Peter's Pence or else you are a venial sinner You have to donate to the Legion of Decency or else you are a sinner You have to get your throat blessed on Candlemas so you won't get laryngitis and other throat diseases If mus not eat meat on fast days or else you will be damned Rep.e.t, i,.

for the drudgery of it) giving up whipped cream for lent fulfills a Godly obligation going to church and dopnating on first Saturday make the Lady of Fatima powerful confessing venial sins is necessary (like you broke wind during communion) That saying the Lords Prayer five times is a virtue?

a vermin shirt remits venial sins Whipping yourself with a switch erases having dirty thoughts Putting gravel in your socks for four days makes God happy Going to church and donating on Holy Days of Obligation is better than other days?

Purgatory is still purgatory, a place of purification; venial sins are still sins.

I thought of being a monk, but then I thought the idea of forgiving sin, just once, just one venial sin, was so tremendous, that it would be worth anything trying for the priesthood.»

A priest whom Kennedy considers to be «fully developed» in psychological terms says that masturbation is not sinful, that he doesn't accept the «theory of mortal and venial sin», and that there is not much guilt or sinfulness associated with sexual misbehaviour.

It may be a venial, trivial mistake, but not very serious in the grand scheme of things.

Catholics, among other denominations, have stratified sin into venial (lesser) and mortal (more serious).

Then, they got really fancy with sin, then sub-divided sin into mortal and venial.

Just read Gregory the Great or the many popes of the middle ages who wrote that even married sex is a venial sin.

The ancient Churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, etc.) have always aknowleged some sin is «venial» (smaller) and some is «mortal» (unto death).

We know that we are only formally obliged to confess mortal sins, but venial sin also weakens the soul, and without regular confession our spirits can grow dull and our consciences corrode little by little, opening the way to graver lapses should temptation come.

According to Catholic teaching, as defined at the Councils of Lyons (1274) and Florence (1439), those who die in the grace of God expiate their unforgiven venial or pardonable sins by undergoing due punishment before being admitted to the beatific vision.

And he undermines the Church's view on the seriousness of mortal sin in the following comment: «Though the Church's traditional distinction between mortal and venial sin is justifiable, it is in the concrete just as difficult to tell the one from the other as to assign real guilt to a person.»

It's not a moral wrong in itself, but like many venial sins, it can become a norm which robs us of the chance to help virtue grow.

Holy Communion unites us with Christ more intimately than any other act, it separates us from venial sin and fortifies us to resist temptation.

Was it a venial sin to even think about missing Mass?

Personal greed of an assemblyman or a legislator or a state official, who does something venial and greedy and stupid is not enough to destroy that dream because that dream is too important.

Is «flipping» second home addresses to pay for redecoration a cardinal or venial sin?

The confessor responds to the computer's questions by pressing buttons such as «days», «weeks», «yes», «no», «venial» and «mortal».

After the customary «Bless me Father, for I have sinned», the programme instructs the user to tap in the number of days since last confession, the number of venial versus mortal sins (selected from a list of the seven deadly sins and the ten commandments) and then further details of each sin.

Sort of like the drawing of a Catholic soul we had to study in grade school — all white but dotted with venial sins like measles on a Robert Wyman painting.

The Catholic Church holds it better that the entire population of the world should die of starvation in extreme agony... than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin.

Irdai is obligated to look into as to whether the violation is technical, venial in nature or is a serious violation which would gravely jeopardize the interest of policyholders of the said Insurance Company,» said the SAT.