Behavior that could leads into mortal sins

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What to do when your family approves behavior that (could) leads into the mortal sin? My sister is very often going alone on vacation with her boyfriend. I have warned her but she has big support from our parents, they are very glad that she is in relationship and they don’t see nothing wrong if she is alone with her boyfriend on 10 days long vacation at the sea. My mother is going every day on Mass and in the same time she is supporting my sister’s ungodly relationship. I am praying for their conversion. This is heavy burden to me. I am worried for their eternal life. Lord, have mercy!
 
Pray for them but also pray for your own peace and patience.

Please do not let your mind dwell on the sins of others. The expectation, speculation, and imagination of their sins is harmful to your spirit. Instead try to envision and pray for God’s grace to act on them in a positive way, possibly using their relationship to bring them in the end to greater faith and holiness.
 
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While it’s nice that you’re concerned about your mother and sister, their personal lives and sins are not your business to be “burdened” with. You have warned both of them and in so doing fulfilled any moral obligation you might have. Beyond that, they are both adults and you don’t know all their business.

I agree with the advice to pray for them both but beyond that, let it go and concern yourself with the sins in your very own life, not with minding other people’s business.
 
If we spend time focusing on our own spiritual life, in acts of mercy and prayer and doing good, we will not have time to worry that the other guy might be sinning.
 
You have already talk to your sister.

It maybe an occasion, if you are close enough to your mother, to open a talk about your convictions toward what a chaste relationship before marriage should be. You may ask what for her is" healthy boundiaries", when start a relationship, how we can stay focus on discerning marriage with someone, how to stay continent until marriage, what situations she thinks can lead to temptation (near occasion of sin etc).

It may be very constructive for you if you are both open to it. I don’t know your family, but you should anticipated that maybe your mother don’t share the Church teaching on sexuality and might not have always act as it should be.
 
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