Which is worst?

[Epistemes]

Which is worst for the soul?

 

[FidesSpesCarita]

Probably the hardest moral dilemma I have seen in a couple years. Choose what is worse? HARD. Could you post another, but have it be a which one is better choice?

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AND for the record, this list of people made me sad.

 

[cheese_sdc]

e) Someone who spends all their time worrying about other people’s salvation and not enough about their own.

 

[Epistemes]

e) Someone who spends all their time worrying about other people’s salvation and not enough about their own.

Witty rhetoric, but not applicable. Thanks, though.

 

[cheese_sdc]

I’ll never forget this experience:

In the abbey church of St. Joseph Monastery in Covington Louisiana, Dom Gregory DeWitt painted murals over the entire church. In one section he painted creation - Heaven, Earth, and Hell. In Hell, he painted depictions of the 7 deadly sins; unfortunately, their were 9 spaces to fill architecturally. He therefore added two more deadly sins - the sins which poison community living, especially in a monastery or seminary (I was attending seminary at the time).

Those two additional sins were gossip and busybodiness. The demon of “busybodiness” is depicted holding a spyglass, because he is always looking at everyone else and muttering about “what so and so did”.

It will kill a community.

 

[Beachcomber]

I always thought a person could attend Mass without going to confession first. It was only if one wants to receive the Eucharist you need to be in a state of grace.

So the Catholic prostitute goes to Mass–perhaps that is a hopeful sign rather than something worse. And perhaps s/he is too ashamed to go to confession and ‘tell all.’ Maybe there was a bad experience with the Church in the past that has put them off. I try and look at the bigger picture here.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

While the first two choices were good to the point that I have a hard time choosing (both are they type to never shut up and keep their beliefs to themselves ), the second two remind me too much of Mary Magdalene and possibly a Gentile.

 

[Jerok]

I think the Catholic prostitute is the worst. She has been introduced to the Truth and in the best way possible (through the one true Church), and she is a horrible sinner. Not because she’s a prostitute, and not because she forsakes the method of repentance, confession, but because she spits on the Holy One by taking communion, knowing full well she is mortally sinning! Partaking in the Eucharist with mortal sins on your soul is the quickest way to damnation I can think of… it’s like mocking God with your body and your soul.

This is why I was so sure to make sure my girlfriend started going to confession again. Some Catholics don’t know what they got until someone who doesn’t have it shows them

(Edit) I reread the choice and it didn’t say she took communion but I assumed she did.

 

[surritter]

I always thought a person could attend Mass without going to confession first. It was only if one wants to receive the Eucharist you need to be in a state of grace.

So the Catholic prostitute goes to Mass–perhaps that is a hopeful sign rather than something worse. And perhaps s/he is too ashamed to go to confession and ‘tell all.’ Maybe there was a bad experience with the Church in the past that has put them off. I try and look at the bigger picture here.

Excellent point! And Jesus certainly hung out with this type of undesirable citizens. We can at least hope they are at Mass for the right reasons – to get back on track with God. But they can’t receive the Eucharist (and the poll question merely said that they attend Mass!).