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.
Not exact matches
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.
Just read Gregory the Great or the many popes
of the middle ages who wrote that even married sex is a
venial sin.
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.
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.
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.