Author Topic: Sins against the first Commandment (Read 4977 times)

Adrienne · « **on:** August 11, 2011, 04:42:00 PM »

What are examples of venial sins against the first Commandment?

If your relationship with God isn't the most important thing to you, does that mean you are in mortal sin, even if you haven't committed any grave act/thought?

Any helpful responses are greatly appreciated.

Daegus · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2011, 05:30:39 PM »

Here's a good list, and it is QUITE long by the way. These are all ways you sin mortally against the Faith. We're all guilty of these things sometimes.

http://www.sensustraditionis.org/ExaminationConscienceLong.pdf

Adrienne · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2011, 05:42:26 PM »

Wow, thanks Daegus (:

Sigismund · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2011, 08:19:01 PM »

I don't think it is quite accurate to say that all of these are mortal sins. Not genuflecting in church is hardly a mortal sin. I am not sure it is even a venial sin unless actual disrespect is intended.

Daegus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2011, 08:23:37 PM »

Quote from: Sigismund

I don't think it is quite accurate to say that all of these are mortal sins. Not genuflecting in church is hardly a mortal sin. I am not sure it is even a venial sin unless actual disrespect is intended.

Well, if you've read the list and still don't genuflect in Church or even both to be reverent then we could say you're possibly sinning mortally.

Sigismund · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2011, 08:29:34 PM »

Perhaps. Still, to have a mortal sine, you have t o have grave matter. I cannot imagine that genuflecting or not constitutes grave matter.

Daegus · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2011, 09:17:06 PM »

Quote from: Sigismund

Perhaps. Still, to have a mortal sine, you have t o have grave matter. I cannot imagine that genuflecting or not constitutes grave matter.

It's not necessarily the refusal to genuflect that constitutes a grave matter, but the refusal to give Christ what He deserves that is a grave matter.

Sigismund · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2011, 09:21:19 PM »

Okay. If that is what motivated the lack of a genuflection, I see your point. I was thinking more of someone who was simply negligent, or even just distracted or forgetful.