Sentences with phrase «venial sin»

"Venial sin" refers to a minor wrongdoing, mistake, or fault that is not considered to be as severe as a major sin. It is a less serious offense that does not completely sever one's relationship with God and can be forgiven more easily. Full definition
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.
Purgatory does not cleanse mortal sin from the soul only venial sin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 are venial sins, not mortal ones.
And (this one is a venial sin), the PC version of the game lacks some serious customization options.
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