Subject: What are Mortal and Venial sinis |
Bible Note: Reilly, "In my personal experience, mortal sins weren't a risk (except maybe missing Mass, especially on Holy Days that popped up out of nowhere), so I could conclude I was doing pretty well. What a horribly dangerous thought to entertain!! I know that many family members of mine feel the same way to this day. It is only through reading the Bible and other Christian reading that I came to realize that my sins were real sins that were separating me from God, and I finally became repentent. It is at that point that I was saved. As for scriptural reference, Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, equated lust with adultery (Mt 5:27), thus equating a venial sin with a mortal sin." You mean all that Catholic guilt I've felt over the years was about no big thing? :-) I always got the impression that one of the reasons many Catholics stopped going to Confession around age 14 was because that was about when they started committing mortal sins, especially sins related to lust and they found them difficult to confess. Most were still going to Mass then because their parents could still make them. Emmaus |