Posted on 09/25/2006 9:24:24 AM PDT by Salvation
thanks for that list - it's made me decide to go to Confession after work
LOL!
Yes, a very good aid for an examination of conscience!
I can see at least 4 specific things I need to work on.
I think most people would come close to 0-7, it is in the human condition. The difference is, when someone realizes that something they have done is sinful that they apologize to God and try not to repeat the sin.
So are these sins it is appropriate to mention in confession? I know in theory that venial sins need not be mentioned, but, I do get confused about what constitutes a mortal sin. I would assume these are mortal sins, or...?
Yes. All prevalent in the secular world today and unfortunately a daily fight for this gal as well. Thanks for the reminder and posting of this. It is such a great reminder too about pride and how it is the starting point of so much sin.
Brings one to his or her knees, doesn't it?
Absolutely! :-). Thanks again Salvation!
**"We are not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and we will be healed!"**
or soon to be:
"I am not worthy that You should come under my roof but only say the word and my soul will be saved."
Examples of Pride:
* Boasting
* Arrogance
* Inordinate exaltation of oneself
* The total rejection of the Catholic Church.
* Stating one is already saved.
* Picking and choosing Catholic teachings one wishes to follow.
So. Then, since PRIDE is the cause of all the other sins, all one has to do is become a Catholic, realize that the Catholic Church determines whether you are saved and follow all the teaching of the Catholic Church, then one is saved from all the other sins?
Yes, no?
Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth. and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation." Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith. (CCC: 169)
[Furthermore,] many elements of sanctification and truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements."
"There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved." (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)
"The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels, unless before death they are joined with Her; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier. No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)
This is infallible doctrine of the Church. Now you've heard it.
Aw, shucks.
Only if they die in a state of grace.
How can the sin of PRIDE be alleviated by that which is suborned by the sin of PRIDE.
It is not pride to believe, accept and profess truth.
**Got your flame suit handy?**
My flame suit is on. I think most protestant churches accept some of the Catholic Church's teaching -- just not all of it.
So far it has turned out to be a very good thread, however.
**Both Adam and Eve tried to blame everyone but themselves.**
The Catholic Church teaches that Adam and Eve were responsible for their own sin. I think that is what you were trying to say also? Correct?
**it's made me decide to go to Confession after work**
I didn't mean for it to have that effect. Lord, forgive me. I was not preaching -- really!
Much better explanation of this here.
**Yes, a very good aid for an examination of conscience!**
Yes, I thought of that myself -- because all the other sins fall under these in my opinion.
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