Does this meet grave matter?

[Antonio5]

Today I wanted to in a way show that I was more knowledgeable in a subject than another person. I deliberately made quite a complex statement hoping they wouldn’t have a clue what I was saying and realise I was more knowledgeable than them. It didn’t happen.

Secondly when I saw someone doing something in the wrong way I exclaimed their mistake out loud as I was in mid sentence I realised it was wrong to retell peoples mistakes but still continued to do so.

Both of these things are wrong but I’m not sure if they constitute grave matter as no one involved was harmed. Is anything here grave or just scrupulous babble?

 

[Barbkw]

Today I wanted to in a way show that I was more knowledgeable in a subject than another person. I deliberately made quite a complex statement hoping they wouldn’t have a clue what I was saying and realise I was more knowledgeable than them. It didn’t happen.

** I’ve done that. Baffle them with …**

Secondly when I saw someone doing something in the wrong way I exclaimed their mistake out loud as I was in mid sentence I realised it was wrong to retell peoples mistakes but still continued to do so.

**Been there, done that. It’s rediculously impossible to stop.

youtube.com/watch?v=KZag1zlecGI**

Both of these things are wrong but I’m not sure if they constitute grave matter as no one involved was harmed. Is anything here grave or just scrupulous babble?

In human relationships, these two interactions are very very common.

The first tends to deal with individual pride touched by a bit of personal arrogance. That can get addictive - always needing to be right or the need to to be seen in out in front of other people.

The second is a caution concerning personal interaction.

 

[Barbkw]

P.S. Have you run your thoughts and actions at the time of occurance through the three requirements for mortal sin?

You’re very introspective.

If you feel you’ve offended anyone, you may wish to apologize to them and ask them to forgive you in advance - as you work out this particular difficulty.

 

[Aelred_Minor]

I would assume both would be venial sins.

 

[Edmundus1581]

Ditto, for venial sin.

 

[Antonio5]

But since pride is a capital sin is it not always mortal?

And by the way I think failing to avoid near occasions of sin is usually a mortal sin. But today when someone dressed immodestly was in my line of sight I realised they were a near occasion of sin but didn’t look away. Is this a mortal sin even though I wasn’t lead into lust?

 

[Barbkw]

But since pride is a capital sin is it not always mortal?

And by the way I think failing to avoid near occasions of sin is usually a mortal sin. But today when someone dressed immodestly was in my line of sight I realised they were a near occasion of sin but didn’t look away. Is this a mortal sin even though I wasn’t lead into lust?

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Pride, 1866, 2514
battle against, 1784
consequences of, 2094, 2317, 2540, 2728

No, pride isn’t always a mortal sin so long as you remember that God gave you those gifts and talents and you use them as God would will.

1854 Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. The distinction between mortal and venial sin, already evident in Scripture,129 became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience.

1855 Mortal sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him.

Venial sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.

1856 Mortal sin, by attacking the vital principle within us - that is, charity - necessitates a new initiative of God’s mercy and a conversion of heart which is normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation:

When the will sets itself upon something that is of its nature incompatible with the charity that orients man toward his ultimate end, then the sin is mortal by its very object . . . whether it contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury, or the love of neighbor, such as homicide or adultery. . . . But when the sinner’s will is set upon something that of its nature involves a disorder, but is not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless chatter or immoderate laughter and the like, such sins are venial.130

1857 For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."131

 

[Barbkw]

But since pride is a capital sin is it not always mortal?

And by the way I think failing to avoid near occasions of sin is usually a mortal sin. But today when someone dressed immodestly was in my line of sight I realised they were a near occasion of sin but didn’t look away. Is this a mortal sin even though I wasn’t lead into lust?

Were you in a strip club

 

[slywakka250]

No.