Sentences with word «venial»

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.

Scobie is not satisfied with the distinction between venial and mortal sin; he needs to weigh one mortal sin against another as if to chart the available degrees of damnation.

Purgatory does not cleanse mortal sin from the soul only venial sin.

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

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.

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.

Narrative incompetence is one of the more venial sins of big - budget filmmaking, but there is something particularly ugly and cynical about the sloppiness of «The Cloverfield Paradox,» as if its status as a franchise stepping stone excused its blithe contempt for the audience's satisfaction.

Pablo Larrain) Shipped off to a seaside monastery for various venial transgressions, four Catholic priests have their cozy exile disturbed by charges of molestation, in this incendiary, blackly humorous drama from Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín (Tony Manero, No).

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.

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.

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.

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,.

I would hope that my children do the same, even more so, without the fantastic world of saints, sin and some old man in white robes up in the clouds with a big scoreboard checking off every venial and mortal sin committed in the world.

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

In general, such couples commit either a venial sin, or even no sin at all, he thinks.

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.

His cartoons depict a world so nasty, venial, and ridiculous that it has no place for religious ideals.

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

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

They want to draw it to size, and define its properties, and dogmatize its meaning, and describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes a venial or a mortal sin.

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.»

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

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

But these faults are venial.

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

But these are venial sins, not mortal ones.

And (this one is a venial sin), the PC version of the game lacks some serious customization options.