(2Pet 2, 10-22) They have gone astray
[10] and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings, [11] whereas angels, despite their superior strength and power, do not bring a reviling judgment against them from the Lord. [12] But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed, [13] suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you. [14] Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children! [15] Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing, [16] but he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. [17] These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved. [18] For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error. [19] They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him. [20] For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first. [21] For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them. [22] What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, "The dog returns to its own vomit," and "A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire."
[10] and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings, [11] whereas angels, despite their superior strength and power, do not bring a reviling judgment against them from the Lord. [12] But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed, [13] suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you. [14] Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children! [15] Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing, [16] but he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. [17] These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved. [18] For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error. [19] They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him. [20] For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first. [21] For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them. [22] What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, "The dog returns to its own vomit," and "A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire."
(CCC 2120) Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us (Cf. CIC, cann. 1367; 1376). (CCC 679) Christ is Lord of eternal life. Full right to pass definitive judgment on the works and hearts of men belongs to him as redeemer of the world. He "acquired" this right by his cross. The Father has given "all judgement to the Son" (Jn 5:22; cf. 5:27; Mt 25:31; Acts 10:42; 17:31; 2 Tim 4:1). Yet the Son did not come to judge, but to save and to give the life he has in himself (Cf. Jn 3:17; 5:26). By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love (Cf. Jn 3:18; 12:48; Mt 12:32; 1 Cor 3:12-15; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26-31).
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