Blasphemy?

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What is considered blasphemy? Is letting the word “God” or “Godd*mn” slip a mortal sin? I have been better with this in the past year, but today I screwed up after going to confession–I haven’t taken the Eucharist in a month because of sin, and I am missing it so. 😦 Should I not take it because I used God’s name loosely today?
 
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What is considered blasphemy? Is letting the word “God” or “Godd*mn” slip a mortal sin? I have been better with this in the past year, but today I screwed up after going to confession–I haven’t taken the Eucharist in a month because of sin, and I am missing it so. 😦 Should I not take it because I used God’s name loosely today?
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So why not go to confession again…that’s what it’s for. Mortal sin requires full consent, and letting it slip could be mitigating if it’s become a habit. Go to confession, talk to your priest. 👍
 
Newbie2 said:
So why not go to confession again…that’s what it’s for. Mortal sin requires full consent, and letting it slip could be mitigating if it’s become a habit. Go to confession, talk to your priest. 👍
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Because I just went. And I don’t want to wait a whole 'nother week. 😦
 
bookish said:
What is considered blasphemy? Is letting the word “God” or “Godd*mn” slip a mortal sin? I have been better with this in the past year, but today I screwed up after going to confession–I haven’t taken the Eucharist in a month because of sin, and I am missing it so. 😦 Should I not take it because I used God’s name loosely today?
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saying " I swear to God" is taking the Lord’s name in vain.
 
bookish said:
What is considered blasphemy? Is letting the word “God” or “Godd*mn” slip a mortal sin? I have been better with this in the past year, but today I screwed up after going to confession–I haven’t taken the Eucharist in a month because of sin, and I am missing it so. 😦 Should I not take it because I used God’s name loosely today?
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Doesn’t anyone ever read the CCC before asking questions like this?

Catechism of the Catholic Church:

CCC 2148 Blasphemy is directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one’s speech; in misusing God’s name. St. James condemns those “who blaspheme that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called.” The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ’s Church, the saints, and sacred things. It is also blasphemous to make use of God’s name to cover up criminal practices, to reduce peoples to servitude, to torture persons or put them to death. The misuse of God’s name to commit a crime can provoke others to repudiate religion.

Blasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin.
 
bookish said:
What is considered blasphemy? Is letting the word “God” or “Godd*mn” slip a mortal sin? I have been better with this in the past year, but today I screwed up after going to confession–I haven’t taken the Eucharist in a month because of sin, and I am missing it so. 😦 Should I not take it because I used God’s name loosely today?
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If mortal sins keep you from receiving communion for more than a month, you should go to confession more often. Saying those things isn’t a mortal sin unless you say that and you really mean what those words mean.
 
Jimdandy said:
saying " I swear to God" is taking the Lord’s name in vain.
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I don’t think so, if you mean what you’re saying. That would make all legal oaths sins, and the Church has never prohibited Catholics from taking legal oaths.

God bless
 
m134e5 said:
If mortal sins keep you from receiving communion for more than a month, you should go to confession more often. Saying those things isn’t a mortal sin unless you say that and you really mean what those words mean.
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I go weekly. That aside, thank you for your opinion on the mortal/venial sin issue.
 
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