Idolater
"Matthew 16:18-19" Dispensationalist (Catholic) χρ
Avoiding going to Sunday Mass is a grave sin.
Grave sins are grave because of their objective weight, not due to any subjective judgment.
A "mortal sin" is a grave sin which is committed with informed consent, which means with full knowledge and with deliberate consent.
Sometimes people seem very clearly to just be trying to weasel out of going to Mass. What the point of this thread is, is that this does not necessarily mean that the people's own direct experience, is that they're just trying to get out of having to go to Mass.
People can be under spells. This is why the bishops are not keen on withholding Communion, because we don't know if a person who is pretty apparently flagrantly skipping Mass, but going to Communion when they do come back (without going to confession first), is a Christian who is under a spell, or is a non-believer.
Christians apparently flagrantly skipping Mass, who are doing so while under spells, are not fully guilty of skipping Mass, which means it's not a mortal sin, which means it's at worst a venial sin, which means these Christians are not endangering themselves to partake of the altar.
Spells can be in the form of peer pressure, old habits, anxiety, and many other mundane conditions which people encounter all the time. It could also be a threat of some sort, which pressures you to skip Mass against your will. The common theme of all these various circumstances, is that they diminish, attenuate or even nullify altogether your free will.
Grave sins are grave because of their objective weight, not due to any subjective judgment.
A "mortal sin" is a grave sin which is committed with informed consent, which means with full knowledge and with deliberate consent.
Sometimes people seem very clearly to just be trying to weasel out of going to Mass. What the point of this thread is, is that this does not necessarily mean that the people's own direct experience, is that they're just trying to get out of having to go to Mass.
People can be under spells. This is why the bishops are not keen on withholding Communion, because we don't know if a person who is pretty apparently flagrantly skipping Mass, but going to Communion when they do come back (without going to confession first), is a Christian who is under a spell, or is a non-believer.
Christians apparently flagrantly skipping Mass, who are doing so while under spells, are not fully guilty of skipping Mass, which means it's not a mortal sin, which means it's at worst a venial sin, which means these Christians are not endangering themselves to partake of the altar.
Spells can be in the form of peer pressure, old habits, anxiety, and many other mundane conditions which people encounter all the time. It could also be a threat of some sort, which pressures you to skip Mass against your will. The common theme of all these various circumstances, is that they diminish, attenuate or even nullify altogether your free will.
I find that very hard to believe. I've never heard a Catholic ever say that, even have that attitude, and I grew up in a Catholic family and very Catholic environment for most of my life. Also, having sex outside marriage is a mortal sin and you can't go to Communion unless you've gone to confession first. Every Catholic knows that.