Is it a mortal sin?

[Jason_1977]

Question:

My understanding of a mortal sin is basically breaking one of the commandments. I am looking at the catechism and it also tells me that the criteria is essentially a deliberate and basically something done after making a choice to do it knowing that it was a sin.

Here’s my question:

If I blurt out (gosh darn) while I’m driving (but the other one…lol) ~~YES, I firmly believe I am taking the Lord’s name in vain, and yes it is breaking the 3rd commandment…

But if an instinctive blurting as opposed to some sort of thought process and then decision making, wouldn’t that be a venial sin? If it was just blourted out, heat of the moment? I mean either way, the person is going to confession (me) but MY question is, do I tell the priest I’ve commited a mortal sin, I used the name in vain, or do I say, I have no mortal sins, but I did break the 3rd commandment in the heat of a bad moment. Mortal involves a decision, venial is not thinking first but you still made a boo boo. SO, if I break the 3rd commandment by blurting out (gee-wiz) and then thinking…MAN…I just broke the 3rd commandment…realizing then what I’ve just done, I mean, I’m not trying to lessen anything, I’m trying to distinguish severity…yes, it’s a commandment broken. (Bad ju-ju) BUT, is this something that can be forgiven in the Penetentiary rite? OR is the fact that a commandment was broken REQUIRE confession? I guess that’s my question, (I’m trying to word it so it makes sense & not sound like I’m trying to lessen or cheapen it, I’m trying to figure out how bad it is & is it something that I can take care of in the penetentiary rite & still take the eucharist, and STILL confess ANYWAY for good measure, or…anyway, I’ve been w. the Church for 2 years, and I have a good grasp on things for the most part, now I’m basically trying to fine tune things mentally & spiritually.

I’m trying to stay honest w. God by staying honest to myself, & I guess I’m just trying to reach an understanding of the nature of blurting out (dad gum it), breaking the commdmt, as opposed to willfully & making a decision to do so. See what I mean? anyway, a priest giving his 2c. would be AWESOME…catechists or RCIA people PLEASE, insight is welcome. Thank you!!! I basically am trying to figure out if I am able to take part in the eucharist,

 

[John92]

If you’re honestly trying to not take the lord’s name in vain, and you blurt it out without thinking, that would probably still be a venial sin. Fr. Most said so, actually, if I remember right. Still better to be on the safe side and confess it though If you’re being careless and not making any effort to restrain yourself, that might move it into mortal territory, but I think it’s clear from your post that this isn’t the case for you.

Also, grave matter isn’t just breaking the ten commandments. Some violations of the ten commandments are always grave ex toto - blasphemy and lust, for example - while others are grave ex genere suo (lit: “from their kind”), like theft (stealing a cookie from the cookie-jar would be venial, for example ) You can see this in the Catholic Encyclopedia’s article on Sin.

God bless!

 

[Jason_1977]

If you’re honestly trying to not take the lord’s name in vain, and you blurt it out without thinking, that would probably still be a venial sin. Fr. Most said so, actually, if I remember right. Still better to be on the safe side and confess it though If you’re being careless and not making any effort to restrain yourself, that might move it into mortal territory, but I think it’s clear from your post that this isn’t the case for you.

Also, grave matter isn’t just breaking the ten commandments. Some violations of the ten commandments are always grave ex toto - blasphemy and lust, for example - while others are grave ex genere suo (lit: “from their kind”), like theft (stealing a cookie from the cookie-jar would be venial, for example ) You can see this in the Catholic Encyclopedia’s article on Sin.

God bless!

So this leads me to my next part is now that we’ve gotten past that part, the penetentiary rite where we confess we’re sinners & ask for forgiveness, THAT gets covered in THAT part of the mass right? So I SHOULD be able to take the eucharist, BUT SILL PLAN ON going to confession anyway. right?

 

[John92]

So this leads me to my next part is now that we’ve gotten past that part, the penetentiary rite where we confess we’re sinners & ask for forgiveness, THAT gets covered in THAT part of the mass right? So I SHOULD be able to take the eucharist, BUT SILL PLAN ON going to confession anyway. right?

I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this

But here’s my basic understanding . . .

If you, let’s say, masturbated, and felt bad about it and planned to go to confession, and then got hit by a bus the next day and died, you’d go to heaven because you sincerely intended to go to confession. But if you have a mortal sin on your conscience you can’t take communion until you’ve been to confession.

I’m pretty sure blurting out a blasphemous thing without thinking about it is a venial sin, though, so you should be good, provided there aren’t other sins on your conscience which are mortal.

But remember my signature! Maybe it’d be better to be on the safe side and not take communion. I really don’t want to unintentionally lead you into sin, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can step in.

 

[prodigalson12]

It absolutely is not a mortal sin in any way shape or form, it’s barely venial at best. You stub your toe, you blurt out something, it happens, it’s a natural reaction. The fact you are driving yourself nuts over this, I read your other post about it, in my book is pennence enough just for the record. It also shows you have an underlying problem that needs to be addressed which is much more dire then confession since this is something you admit to having a problem with. There is no point in confessing something you are going to do habitually, it negates it since there is no functional repentance, perhaps it’s real for a little while, but if you do it again as you are doing, it’s quite limited and you are starting the process all over again.

I will bet you are in a work environment where profanity is the norm and you are exposed to it every day. This is the challenge here, do you allow yourself to be subject to that atmosphere, do you try to change it, or do you continue to put yourself through unnecessary challenges in dealing with this issue, I assume this is the case because an individual that desires not to have profanity in their language and actively works on it, typically achieves it with relative ease as long as they are not being exposed to it on a regular basis. The trick with profanity, analyze how you say things, do you keep placing unnecessary words into it with these explanitifs, regardless of the word is good or bad, does it really need to be there at all? If you do this, you will find it’s only a rare circumstance you use these words because they aren’t written into your mental dialog as an included element.

I can go on here, did you see some commercial with a scantily clad woman in it, we as men cannot help but to find it appealing, thus we just committed adultry in our hearts for example, how often do those get confessed? If you recall Job, he was considered righteous, part of it was because he atoned for his sins that he knew as well as ones he committed but wasn’t aware he did. You are driving yourself nuts over one sin that you are aware of, how many for the ones you aren’t? I know, it may not help much, but I just hate seeing people suffer for no good reason.

I’m not a priest, just another person that is backing up what another priest already told you. Anyway, I’ve been trying not to pop in here to comment, but I just had to help put this little saga of yours to rest.

 

[Jason_1977]

It absolutely is not a mortal sin in any way shape or form, it’s barely venial at best. You stub your toe, you blurt out something, it happens, it’s a natural reaction. The fact you are driving yourself nuts over this, I read your other post about it, in my book is pennence enough just for the record. It also shows you have an underlying problem that needs to be addressed which is much more dire then confession since this is something you admit to having a problem with. There is no point in confessing something you are going to do habitually, it negates it since there is no functional repentance, perhaps it’s real for a little while, but if you do it again as you are doing, it’s quite limited and you are starting the process all over again.

I will bet you are in a work environment where profanity is the norm and you are exposed to it every day. This is the challenge here, do you allow yourself to be subject to that atmosphere, do you try to change it, or do you continue to put yourself through unnecessary challenges in dealing with this issue, I assume this is the case because an individual that desires not to have profanity in their language and actively works on it, typically achieves it with relative ease as long as they are not being exposed to it on a regular basis. The trick with profanity, analyze how you say things, do you keep placing unnecessary words into it with these explanitifs, regardless of the word is good or bad, does it really need to be there at all? If you do this, you will find it’s only a rare circumstance you use these words because they aren’t written into your mental dialog as an included element.

I can go on here, did you see some commercial with a scantily clad woman in it, we as men cannot help but to find it appealing, thus we just committed adultry in our hearts for example, how often do those get confessed? If you recall Job, he was considered righteous, part of it was because he atoned for his sins that he knew as well as ones he committed but wasn’t aware he did. You are driving yourself nuts over one sin that you are aware of, how many for the ones you aren’t? I know, it may not help much, but I just hate seeing people suffer for no good reason.

I’m not a priest, just another person that is backing up what another priest already told you. Anyway, I’ve been trying not to pop in here to comment, but I just had to help put this little saga of yours to rest.

I appreciate it, seriously, I’m probably wigging out because I missed confession & now I’m trying to basically figure out if I can take the eucharist, and based on what you & John are telling me, it seems as though I can, & YES, I’m beating myself up…the idea of not being able to take the eucharist because of the potential of, well, anyway, it doesnt matter because it seems as though we’ve talked it out. Thanks!!! I appreciate it!!!