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please4giveme
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Hi I’m new to the faith.I’m trying to quit cusing. But sometimes if I’m mad I slip and say one.I always correct myself.is this a mortal sin.thank you
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katiebelle08
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**I would not consider this a mortal sin. However all sins no matter how small need to be confessed. I too struggle with my anger…and I am one to use many bad words in my day. It is a constant struggle to refrain from this language both verbally and just internally thinking it. I have found that asking the Trinity to help with my anger and to help me to refrain from thinking and saying the bad words have helped a lot over the years.
Good Luck and God Bless You! **
Good Luck and God Bless You! **
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mcrow
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I don’t think it would be a mortal sin to cuss. Perhaps it could be if it was used to verbally abuse someone else.
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Dorothy
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You can change that bad habit by saying something else, like “Yikes” or “wow”. It is possible to change bad habits…you have to want to for the love of God. Ask for His help, he won’t refuse.
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EasterJoy
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Please be aware that expletive speech can get so that it travels through particular pathways in the brain that are different than normal deliberate speech. There are people who have had a stroke and can’t say anything deliberately, but they find to their consternation that if they get frustrated they are capable of blurting out profanities with perfect clarity.
Having had this problem (the problem with bad speech habits, not the stroke), I’d suggest trying to say something deliberately when you feel frustrated. Instead of just blurting something out, I had to learn, when cut off in traffic for instance, to say something deliberately when I knew I was going to verbalize something no matter what I did: “Ooo, you…THAT MAN…was not safe!!”
I can guarantee you, once those words get into your head, there are not going anywhere. The best you can do is control them. (The language used by dementia patients that have not said a swear word in the earshot of their children in their entire lives would curl your hair.)
Having had this problem (the problem with bad speech habits, not the stroke), I’d suggest trying to say something deliberately when you feel frustrated. Instead of just blurting something out, I had to learn, when cut off in traffic for instance, to say something deliberately when I knew I was going to verbalize something no matter what I did: “Ooo, you…THAT MAN…was not safe!!”
I can guarantee you, once those words get into your head, there are not going anywhere. The best you can do is control them. (The language used by dementia patients that have not said a swear word in the earshot of their children in their entire lives would curl your hair.)
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someguy14
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That is part of discipline. Slowing down your speech or thinking it out before you speak it. Starting it slowly until it is better under control and you will be able to speed to your normal rate of speech with the corrected language.
Yes it take some patience. God can help you with that.
Yes it take some patience. God can help you with that.
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underacloud
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Definitely not mortal sin!
While I don’t condone swearing, I’ll point out that many faithful catholics will even debate the sinfulness of swearing, and contend that it’s really a matter of using context appropriate language. So, they might suggest, to swear in front of people who find the language offensive might be sinful, while swearing in the company of those who don’t find it offensive (eg a football locker-room, watching sport with friends) might not be considered sinful.
We practice virtue by not swearing and you are right to avoid it. But please don’t consider yourself cut off from God (which is what we choose in committing mortal sin) if you say the odd swear word.
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someguy14
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Colossians 3:8 KJV
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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EasterJoy
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*What I do, I do not understand. **For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate. *Now if I do what I do not want, I concur that the law is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want. Now if do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. So, then, I discover the principle that when I want to do right, evil is at hand. For I take delight in the law of God, in my inner self, l but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin. Rom. 7:15-25
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Altar_Server_2
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Really, only mortal sins MUST be confessed. But it is always a good idea to confess the venial ones especially if that sin is something you are having a hard time with. Jesus and the priest can help you out in confession.
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