Monday, July 17, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 316 - Part IV.
(Youcat answer - repeated) Serious sin destroys the divine power of love
in a person’s heart, without which there can be no eternal beatitude. Hence it
is also called mortal sin. Serious sin breaks with God, whereas venial sin only
strains the relationship with him.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 1860) Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the
imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the
principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man.
The promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and
free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological
disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the
gravest.
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) A serious sin
cuts a person off from God. One requirement for such a sin is that it be
opposed to an important value, for instance, directed against life or God (for
example, murder, blasphemy, adultery, and so on) and that it be committed with
full knowledge and full consent. Venial sins are opposed to secondary values
(honor, truth, property, and so on) or are committed without full knowledge of
their seriousness or without full consent of the will. Such sins disrupt the
relationship with God but do not sever it.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 1861) Mortal sin is a radical
possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of
charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace.
If it is not redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes exclusion
from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the
power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can
judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of
persons to the justice and mercy of God. (CCC 1874) To choose deliberately -
that is, both knowing it and willing it - something gravely contrary to the
divine law and to the ultimate end of man is to commit a mortal sin. This
destroys in us the charity without which eternal beatitude is impossible.
Unrepented, it brings eternal death.
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