Two Types of Sin

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Two Types of Sin

• St. John tells us something about the difference
  between those sins that can really take our souls
  down fast and those that are of lesser degree.
• If anyone sees his brother committing what is
  not a mortal sin, , he will ask, and God will
  give him life for those whose sin is not mortal.
  There is sin which is mortal I do not say that
  one is to pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin,
  but there is sin which is not mortal.
• 
  ---I John 5 16-17

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Mortal Sin

• Mortal sin is defined by St. Augustine (Contra
  Faustum, XXII, xxvii) as "Dictum vel factum vel
  concupitum contra legem æternam", i.e. something
  said, done or desired contrary to the eternal
  law, or a thought, word, or deed contrary to the
  eternal law. This is a definition of sin as it is
  a voluntary act. As it is a defect or privation
  it may be defined as an aversion from God, our
  true last end, by reason of the preference given
  to some mutable good.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htmIII

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Venial Sin

• Venial--Venial sin is essentially different from
  mortal sin. It does not avert us from our true
  last end, it does not destroy charity, the
  principle of union with God, nor deprive the soul
  of sanctifying grace, and it is intrinsically
  reparable. It is called venial precisely because,
  considered in its own proper nature, it is
  pardonable in itself meriting, not eternal, but
  temporal punishment. . . . It is distinguished
  from mortal sin on the part of the disorder. By
  mortal sin man is entirely averted from God, his
  true last end, and, at least implicitly, he
  places his last end in some created thing. By
  venial sin he is not averted from God, neither
  does he place his last end in creatures. He
  remains united with God by charity, but does not
  tend towards Him as he ought.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htmIII

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The 7 Deadly Sins

• Sins of Appetite
• Lust
• Gluttony
• Avarice (Greed)
• Wrath
• Sloth
• Sins of Fraud
• Envy
• Pride

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Lust

• The inordinate craving for, or indulgence of,
  the carnal pleasure which is experienced in the
  human organs of generation.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/09438a.htm

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Gluttony

• (From Lat. gluttire, to swallow, to gulp down),
  the excessive indulgence in food and drink. . . .
  or, according to the apt rendering of Father
  Joseph Rickably too soon, too expensively, too
  much, too eagerly, too daintily. Clearly one who
  uses food or drink in such a way as to injure his
  health or impair the mental equipment needed for
  the discharge of his duties, is guilty of the sin
  of gluttony.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/06590a.htm

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Avarice

• Avarice (from Latin avarus, "greedy" "to
  crave") is the inordinate love for riches. . .
• It is more to be dreaded in that it often cloaks
  itself as a virtue, or insinuates itself under
  the pretext of making a decent provision for the
  future.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148b.htm

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Wrath

• The desire of vengeance. . . in conformity with
  the prescriptions of balanced reason, anger is
  not a sin. It is rather a praiseworthy thing and
  justifiable with a proper zeal. It becomes sinful
  when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who
  has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than
  it has been deserved, or in conflict with the
  dispositions oflaw, or from an improper motive.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/01489a.htm

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Sloth

• In general it means disinclination to labour or
  exertion. . . The idea of right living inspires
  not joy but disgust, because of its
  laboriousness.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/14057c.htm

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Envy

• Two forms
• Sadness or displeasure at the success of another
  because I think I deserve it more.
• Joy or pleasure at the failure of another because
  I think it proves my superiority.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/08326b.htm

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Pride

• This is the sin that most resembles Satan!
• Pride is the excessive love of one's own
  excellence. . . . By it the creature refuses to
  stay within his essential orbit he turns his
  back upon God, not through weakness or ignorance,
  but solely because in his self-exaltation he is
  minded not to submit. St. Gregory, considers it
  the queen of all vices.
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/12405a.htm

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A Helpful Chart

• Humility counteracts
  Pride
• Forgiveness counteracts Wrath
• Generosity counteracts
  Avarice
• Purity counteracts Lust
• Love counteracts
  Envy
• Diligence counteracts
  Sloth
• Temperance counteracts
  Gluttony