Sin, Fault, Blasphemy

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Mary Magdalene, in tears, asks Jesus for forgiveness for her many sins.

Sin is a deliberate offense Against God, creating a separation between man and his Creator. It can appear in some serious forms, such as blasphemy, sacrilege, or sin Against the Holy Spirit.

Blasphemy is saying Against God, inwardly or outwardly, words of hatred, reproach, defiance, or speaking ill of God, showing disrespect towards Him in speech, abusing the name of God to cover wicked or criminal practices.

Sacrilege is any action or attitude that desecrates, degrades, or trivializes something consecrated to God. The 3 types:

- Against persons: when ministers (priests, etc.) or consecrated persons are attacked.

- Against sacred things: when liturgical objects (used in Mass or for Worship), Relics, sacred images, or consecrated places (churches, chapels...) are destroyed, mistreated, or used disrespectfully.

- Eucharistic sacrilege: the most serious: when disrespect is shown towards the Holy Sacrament, which is the bread and wine consecrated in the Eucharist and kept in the tabernacle. It is therefore the real substance "of the body and blood of Jesus Christ" (only the appearance of the bread and wine remains), that is, the "Real Presence" of the Christ.

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

Sin (Fault)

  • (Jesus): Sin is a pain that one causes God.[1]
  • It happens that a small fault, perhaps a simple omission, a simple weakness, grows stronger, becomes a habit, ending in a capital vice.[2]
  • "You never sinned, Jesus?" - "I have never consented to sin. And not because I am the Son of the Father, but because I willed it to show man that the Son of man did not sin because he did not will to sin and that man, if he does not want sin, can avoid committing it."[3]
  • Can he ever sin who says: "God is watching me. God has His eyes on me, and no detail of my Actions escapes Him"? No. He cannot.[4]
  • Repent, patience, steadfastness, heroism, and then, oh sinners, I promise you that you will be your own liberators. Truly I tell you there is no Baptism or rite that counts if there is no repentance and the will to renounce sin. In truth I tell you that there is no sinner too great who cannot restore by tears of repentance the Virtues that sin has ripped from his Heart.[5]
  • Evaluate the circumstances of a sin. The seven conditions: "To measure guilt, one must consider the circumstances preceding, preparing, justifying, explaining the fault itself.[6]
  • "Every sin is an adultery with Satan. The sinner gives himself to Satan for illicit loves from which he hopes sordid benefits."[7]
  • There is no sin that God does not forgive if the sinner is truly repentant.[8]
  • Repentance is a form of love. One who repents says to God by his repentance: "I cannot remain under the threat of your wrath, for I love you and want to be loved".[9]
  • There is no sin that God does not forgive if the sinner is truly repentant.[10]
  • Even the sorrow for an error committed, which afflicts you because through this error you displeased God, must be peaceful, comforted by humility and trust. Overwhelm and self-pity are always signs of Pride, and thus also of distrust.
    If someone is humble, he knows he is a poor man subject to the miseries of the flesh which sometimes triumphs. If someone is humble, he trusts not so much in himself as in God and remains calm, even in defeat, saying: "Forgive me, Father. I know You know my weakness which sometimes overpowers me. I believe You have mercy on me. I firmly trust that You will help me in the Future even more than before, although I give You so little satisfaction".
    And do not be indifferent or stingy with the gifts of God. Give of what you have in wisdom and virtue. Be active in spiritual matters as men are for matters of the flesh.[11]
  • Do not say "we have sinned," but say "we no longer want to sin".[12]
  • Photina the Samaritan woman: I no longer want to sin.[13]
  • Guilty, thus twice slaves: to human law, mocked in vain because it exists and punishes those who violate it, and to Satan who eternally possesses the guilty who cannot hate their fault.[14]
  • Sin is when someone knowingly Revolt Against the order given by God who says: "I know what I do is evil, but I want to do it anyway". God is just. He cannot punish someone who does evil believing to do Good. He punishes the one who, having had the possibility to know Good and Evil, chooses the latter and persists in it."[15]
  • God makes no distinction between ordinary sin and mortal sin.[16]
  • The greatest sin is to despair of divine mercy... Judas, I have said: "Every sin Against the Son of man will be forgiven".[17]
  • Do you see where a first sin leads? To this, oh Judas! He began by perjury against his Wife, then to God; then he became a slanderer, liar, blasphemer; then he took to wine and now he is a murderer. This is how one becomes a possession of Satan.[18]
  • But those who cannot To Believe that you are God shall have no sin. They will be justified... - No. If you had not known me, if you had not witnessed my works, if you had not been able to verify my words, you would not have fault.[19]
  • When does fault occur? When there is the will to sin, the Conscience that one is sinning, and one persists in wanting to sin even after becoming aware that such action is a sin. Everything depends on the will with which an act is accomplished, whether an act of virtue or sin.[20]
  • Calling the fault to the culpable repentant is to degrade him.[21]
  • There is only one slavery: that of sin. Only he who commits sin is a slave and of a servitude that no sum of money redeems, and to an inexorable and cruel master, and he loses all right to free sovereignty in the Kingdom of the Heavens.[22]
  • About the born Confession: "Neither he nor his parents have sinned more than any man sins, and perhaps less also, because often poverty is a restraint to sin..."[23]
  • When a faithful will come to weep at your feet the troubles that come to him from his acts or those of others, you must always have in mind these seven questions: Who … – What … – Where … – How … – With what and with whom … – Why … – When …[24]
  • There is no sin where one does not consent to Temptation, Judas. It is already a sin where, even without committing the act, one entertains the Temptation and dwells on it. It will be a venial sin, but it is already heading towards mortal sin which it prepares inside you, because entertaining the Temptation and dwelling on it in thought, following mentally the phases of a sin, is to weaken yourself. Satan knows this, and that is why he tries repeated blows, always hoping one will penetrate and work inside...[25]
  • The sin of those who gave bad advice, with full knowledge of advising evil, was a sin of hate in addition to lying, of premeditated hate, and the sin of those who accepted the advice thinking it good, was only a sin of foolishness.[26]

Sin Against the Spirit

  • The path of Judas and his final sin.[27]
  • The blasphemy Against the Spirit will not be forgiven.[28]
  • And he who spoke ill and spoke Against the Son of man, it will still be forgiven him because I will ask his forgiveness from the Father, but he who blasphemed Against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.[29]

Sacrilege

In other works of Maria Valtorta

The Notebooks of 1943

  • Catechesis of August 1: On offense Against God (sacrilege): When a creature is truly the child of his Lord, he suffers so much from the insults he sees done to God that no earthly joy, even the greatest and most holy, can console him.[31]
  • Catechesis of November 6: Jesus says: "I know you are weak and that around you there are traps. I know it and I take it into account in judging you. I would no longer be a just God if I did not take into account your weakness and the works of the Evil One.(...)
    Great will be my mercy towards those who fall while wanting the opposite and repent of their fall! One, two, ten, a hundred falls without malice do not wound Love to death. They are mutual scratches that your tears and my love heal. You say to me: ‘Have mercy, Lord’ and I say to you: ‘Come to the Father, my poor child’".[32]

The Notebooks of 1944

  • Catechesis of January 10: On sin Against The Spirit: You are among those who, stubbornly, knowingly, commit the fault that is not forgiven…[33]

The Notebooks from 1945 to 1950

  • Catechesis of February 18, 1947: On the Struggle Against sin: I, Jesus, have never consented to sin. On the contrary, I fought every human reaction that God could not accept, […] thus I have forever eliminated in me every possibility of unforeseen disorder or inner turmoil due to pressures or circumstances that sprang up around me at adult age and intensified until my death […] Would there be the slightest word, the slightest act reported in the book that I have dictated and explained that could convince you of sin, of a single sin, of your Master?[34]

In fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

On sin (Fault)

  • When God sent His own Son in our human condition of sinners to overcome sin, He did what the law of Moses could not because of human weakness: He destroyed sin in the carnal man. He wanted the demands of the Law to be fulfilled in us, who do not live under the sway of the flesh but of The Spirit. Indeed, under the sway of the flesh, one tends toward what is carnal; under the sway of The Spirit, one tends toward what is spiritual; and the flesh tends toward death, but The Spirit tends toward life and Peace. For the flesh tends to revolt Against God, it does not submit to the law of God, it is not even capable of it[35]. "Without doubt, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture: You shall love your Neighbor as yourself, you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it".[36]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

On sin (Fault)

  • Sins can be classified according to the Virtues they oppose (The proliferation of sin).[37]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ EMV 50
  2. ↑ EMV 58
  3. ↑ EMV 69
  4. ↑ EMV 108
  5. ↑ EMV 94.8
  6. ↑ EMV 126
  7. ↑ EMV 131
  8. ↑ EMV 132
  9. ↑ EMV 131
  10. ↑ EMV 132
  11. ↑ EMV 276.7
  12. ↑ EMV 145
  13. ↑ EMV 147
  14. ↑ EMV 154
  15. ↑ EMV 204
  16. ↑ EMV 234
  17. ↑ EMV 340
  18. ↑ EMV 375
  19. ↑ EMV 413
  20. ↑ EMV 448
  21. ↑ EMV 458
  22. ↑ EMV 507
  23. ↑ EMV 510
  24. ↑ EMV 555
  25. ↑ EMV 567
  26. ↑ EMV 569
  27. ↑ EMV 69
  28. ↑ EMV 269
  29. ↑ EMV 421
  30. ↑ EMV 121
  31. ↑ Catechesis of August 1, 1943
  32. ↑ Catechesis of November 6, 1943
  33. ↑ Catechesis of January 10, 1944
  34. ↑ Catechesis of February 18, 1947
  35. ↑ Romans 8: 3-8
  36. ↑ Epistle of James 2: 8-10
  37. ↑ CEC 1865 and following
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