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Tag Archives: mortal sin
Don’t believe in mortal sin? Card. Arinze explains the situation to you.
First, GO TO CONFESSION! Why? Because of mortal sin and the results of mortal sin.
Don’t believe people can commit mortal sin? That it is really hard to commit an actual mortal sin?
Over at the blog of my friend the great … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged Card. Arinze, fundamental option, mortal sin
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An examination of conscience to help make a better confession by a really sound priest
Last year I posted about some sheets developed by my friend the great Fr. Finigan, His Hermeneuticalness, to help people with an examination of conscience before going to confession. He made them available at the blog of his parish, Our … Continue reading
Of TEOTWAWKI, Your Black Unconfessed Sins, and You
People sometimes think, “Oh, those poor people. That could never happen here.”
And then it does.
The people in Russia who had the encounter with the bus-size exploding meteor, got up that day just like you did. Remember that video of … Continue reading
A reader on going to confession
From a reader:
I know you love to hear good things about Confession. I just wanted to share that I went to Confession today with a most humble, wise, and kind priest. I was on the verge of a panic attack … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Does the obligation to do penance on Fridays bind us under pain of sin?
From a reader:
I advised a friend that Catholics are either to abstain from meat on Fridays or to substitute another form of prayer, good work, or abstinence; and that she should confess if she failed to do this. In the … Continue reading
Card. Burke on concelebration, priests ad-libbing and saying Mass in the state of mortal sin
As you know, I think concelebration should be safe, legal and rare. I also think that priests should stick to the words in the books and do what the rubrics say. I, moreover, think that priests who continue to commit … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged 1917 CIC, act of perfect contrition, ad libbing, Card. Burke, Card. Cañizares Llovera, censures, Communion in the hand, concelebration, mortal sin, penalties, sanctions, Say The Black - Do The Red
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The Sins Which “Cry To Heaven” For Vengeance and You
Taylor Marshall at Canterbury Tales has posted on the sins which “cry to heaven” for vengeance, saying also that the USA have failed 4 for 4!
Some sources identity five sins that cry to heaven for vengeance or, variously, justice.
If you have … Continue reading
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", GO TO CONFESSION, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CCC1867, cheating workers of their wages, confession, mortal sin, murder, oppression of widows and orphans, sacrament of penance, sins that cry to heaven, sodomy
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QUAERITUR: Going to confession after many years
From a reader:
The more I read you the more I’m intent on going to Confession again.
I’m 31, and haven’t been since I was confirmed. As you know, it just hasn’t been consistently preached that it is necessary. I just have … Continue reading
WDTPRS POLL: How did you fulfill your Christmas/Sunday Mass obligation? (With a short rant about Hell.)
Catholics are obliged to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and also certain other “days of precept”, also called Holy Days of Obligation. We fulfill our obligation by attending Mass (or Divine Liturgy of course) on the day itself or … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, De Novissimis: Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Christmas, hell, Holy Days of Obligation, judgement, mortal sin, Sunday Mass Obligation
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QUAERITUR: Can a miscarriage be a sin?
From a reader:
I was wondering if it was possible for a natural miscarriage to be a sin. The doctors couldn’t tell me why it happened, but statistically miscarriages are more likely when the mother is obese, as I am/was.
And while … Continue reading
