Offenses against charity: mortal sin?

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The “What is a Mortal Sin?” page lists these as mortal:

**Indifference—**This grave sin entails neglect or refusal on divine charity (a.k.a. divine love). Those who sin in indifference fail to consider the goodness of charity, and deny its power (CCC 2094).
**Ingratitude—**An ungrateful sinner fails or refuses to acknowledge and return the love and charity of God (CCC 2094).
**Lukewarmness—**Lukewarmness is negligence in response to God’s charity. It can also mean the refusal to give oneself to the prompting of charity (CCC 2094).
**Acedia (spiritual sloth)—**Spiritual sloth, a capital sin, is the refusal of joy that comes from God. An sinner who indulges in acedia may even be repelled by divine goodness (CCC 2094).

Are these mortal and could you explain them more fully?

By the way, the link is: saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html
 
McatholicN said:
The “What is a Mortal Sin?” page lists these as mortal:

**Indifference—**This grave sin entails neglect or refusal on divine charity (a.k.a. divine love). Those who sin in indifference fail to consider the goodness of charity, and deny its power (CCC 2094).
**Ingratitude—**An ungrateful sinner fails or refuses to acknowledge and return the love and charity of God (CCC 2094).
**Lukewarmness—**Lukewarmness is negligence in response to God’s charity. It can also mean the refusal to give oneself to the prompting of charity (CCC 2094).
**Acedia (spiritual sloth)—**Spiritual sloth, a capital sin, is the refusal of joy that comes from God. An sinner who indulges in acedia may even be repelled by divine goodness (CCC 2094).

Are these mortal and could you explain them more fully?

By the way, the link is: saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html
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I would not recommend that link…for exactly the reason of your question. One must as the scholastics say… distinguish…so to list all those things under mortal sins without further ado can lead to some misunderstandings…

In many things there can be “parvity of matter” that is “smallness of matter”.

Such as one can be for example perhaps be “not as thankful” to God as one could be…which may not even be a sin at all…though it could also be an imperfection at times.

For heck we can be thankful for everything!!! But say…to not stop and thank God constantly is not a sin (though the prayer of thanksgiving is very important…Paul says a number of times in his letters for us to be thankful)…there can be various venial ways of negligence in response to God’s love…etc…etc …etc
 
You suffer from scrupulosity. You need to be under the guidance of a competent spiritual director. You are unable to distinguish things properly in your current state, and it is harmful for you to seek out such information without guidance.
 
1ke said:
You suffer from scrupulosity. You need to be under the guidance of a competent spiritual director. You are unable to distinguish things properly in your current state, and it is harmful for you to seek out such information without guidance.
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I agree. This is clear from every thread he opens. Also in every thread we tell him to speak to a priest as soon as possible. However, instead of doing that he just keeps coming back here to ask us.
 
CCC 2094:
2094 One can sin against God’s love in various ways:
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  • indifference neglects or refuses to reflect on divine charity; it fails to consider its prevenient goodness and denies its power.
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  • ingratitude fails or refuses to acknowledge divine charity and to return him love for love.
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  • lukewarmness is hesitation or negligence in responding to divine love; it can imply refusal to give oneself over to the prompting of charity.
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  • acedia or spiritual sloth goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness.
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  • hatred of God comes from pride. It is contrary to love of God, whose goodness it denies, and whom it presumes to curse as the one who forbids sins and inflicts punishments.
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I don’t see anything here that states these as grave. Hence, they do not constitute grave matter. I’m not sure why they are listed as mortal sins on the site.
 
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CCC 2094:

I don’t see anything here that states these as grave. Hence, they do not constitute grave matter. I’m not sure why they are listed as mortal sins on the site.
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Not everything that is grave matter…has a tag in the CCC next to it saying it is grave…all the 10 commandments involve grave matter …though many admit of smallness of matter. In the case of the above yes…there can be grave matter…(but see my post above).
 
Bookcat said:
Not everything that is grave matter…has a tag in the CCC next to it saying it is grave…all the 10 commandments involve grave matter …though many admit of smallness of matter. In the case of the above yes…there can be grave matter…(but see my post above).
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Ah, understood. Thanks for the clarification.
 
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