Serious Sin or Venial Sin

[JCServant01]

If a parent tells a child to just draw a line through a mistake not scratch it up but the child ended scratching up the mistake either way. Is that mortal or venial sin.

 

[JCServant01]

I left out the part where the child went and scratch the mistakes either way.

 

[semper_catholicus]

How old is said child?

Are you asking this becuase it relates directly to you? Are you asking this becuase you’re worried about something similar?

 

[JCServant01]

Well it’s a teenager

 

[semper_catholicus]

Did this actually happen to you?

 

[JCServant01]

Yes it did

 

[Uriel1]

Imagine Jesus judging the child - it’s venial

 

[semper_catholicus]

Did you do it or do you have a teenager that did it?

 

[JCServant01]

I am the one that did it

 

[SacredHeartBassist]

it’s not a sin

 

[semper_catholicus]

It is absolutely not a mortal sin. Are you worried it’s a mortal sin?

 

[AZ42]

If a parent tells a child to just draw a line through a mistake not scratch it up but the child ended scratching up the mistake either way. Is that mortal or venial sin.

Some damned souls were sitting in hell discussing what they did to send themselves there. “Murder” says one. “Adultery”, says other. “Scratching out a mistake instead of drawing a line through it”, says a third.

 

[JCServant01]

In the sense that I went aganist what my parent said

 

[SacredHeartBassist]

yeah but it’s a trifle, not grave matter at all

 

[Vico]

If a parent tells a child to just draw a line through a mistake not scratch it up but the child ended scratching up the mistake either way. Is that mortal or venial sin.

Mortal sin requires either intentional ignorance to not know the truth (indifference to the truth) or act or omission that is grave offense and willfully chosen after sufficient reflection.

Was it done intentionally? If not, it is unintentional. Is disobedience to the parents a grave matter? Sometimes.