Mortal Sins/ Confession

[5aret]

Here is a Catholic website listing most Mortal Sins:

http://www.catholic.org/frz/examen/examen_mortal.htm

Three things are necessary for a sin to be mortal:

1.Serious matter (things listed in this examination);

2. Knowledge or firm belief that the act is seriously wrong prior to committing the act;

3.Full consent of the will.

All three of these conditions must be present simultaneously for a sin to be mortal. This means that if you did not know the act was seriously wrong, then you are not guilty of having committed a mortal sin. If you did not will the act, e.g., if you were forced or if it was in a dream, if you were impaired or emotionally distraught or terrified, etc., you are not guilty of the act committed.

All mortal sins committed since your last confession must be confessed by both type and number, i.e., the kind or "name" of the sin and how many times or frequency it was done. If there is a mortal sin from the past that was forgotten and has not been confessed, once remembered it should be confessed at your very next confession.

It is not necessary to confess venial sins, but it is a good and pious practice.

 

[Dream]

Great site. A good examination of consience.

 

[5aret]

It is a freakin bug. Cannot post anything... takes 10 minutes to get anything up...​

 

[New_Found_Faith]

How is cross-dressing a sin of grave matter? IMO it's just wierd. Not socially acceptable. I don't understand how it is an offense against chastity.

 

[5aret]

I do not know....

Possibly not showing the gender God gave you?

I really do not know.

 

[Dream]

How is cross-dressing a sin of grave matter? IMO it's just wierd. Not socially acceptable. I don't understand how it is an offense against chastity.

Cross dressing is done in order to recieve sexual arousal and/or gratification.

 

[QuantaCura]

How is cross-dressing a sin of grave matter? IMO it's just wierd. Not socially acceptable. I don't understand how it is an offense against chastity.

It's specifically condemned in Scripture.

Deut. 22:5 A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.

 

[New_Found_Faith]

Also 'willfully lusting after another.' Lust has always been classified as a venial sin in all of the other websites I've read. The CCC does not describe lust as being of grave matter (to my knowlege) either.

 

[QuantaCura]

Also 'willfully lusting after another.' Lust has always been classified as a venial sin in all of the other websites I've read. The CCC does not describe lust as being of grave matter (to my knowlege) either.

I think it's the if I would I could mindset. For example, I might look at a girl the wrong way, but know I would never act on it. On the other hand, I may really want to do something, I just am not able to.

 

[New_Found_Faith]

Thanks for the explanations.

 

[Paul S]

It's specifically condemned in Scripture.

Deut. 22:5 A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.

And my priest has used that verse in his homilies. He's wonderful.

 

[marciadietrich]

I am perpetually in mortal sin ... at least according to the standards set in these examinations of conscience.

 

[marciadietrich]

It's specifically condemned in Scripture.

Deut. 22:5 A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God.

Yep, my shorts, long pants, tennis shoes, and I actually wear hand me downs from my oldest boy ... I am abominable ... but I never have confessed this as a sin. Still just add one more to the sure mortal sin condemnation list.

 

[bostonlass]

oral sex is a mortal sin in the Catholic church? I seriously did not know that one.

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On it's own if it is not followed by the natural sex act between husband and wife with the *cough* natural ending if you catch my drift. As foreplay it's ok as long as the above happens after.

 

[bostonlass]

Yep, my shorts, long pants, tennis shoes, and I actually wear hand me downs from my oldest boy ... I am abominable ... but I never have confessed this as a sin. Still just add one more to the sure mortal sin condemnation list.

Cross dressing is what's listed so I would think it to mean dressing as a man when one is a woman and vice versa.

How a man or a woman dresses is a cultural thing so I wouldn't jump to say that if a woman wears pants she's crossdressing ... in the US in 2005 that is.

to be honest back in biblical times how on earth could you even tell a man from a woman since everyone wore robes?

 

[Paul S]

How a man or a woman dresses is a cultural thing so I wouldn't jump to say that if a woman wears pants she's crossdressing ... in the US in 2005 that is.

Why do you think the feminists in the 1920s wanted women to wear pants?

And there's also been studies of where men look when they see women wearing pants - and guess which part of the body the eyes go to?

 

[bostonlass]

Why do you think the feminists in the 1920s wanted women to wear pants?

And there's also been studies of where men look when they see women wearing pants - and guess which part of the body the eyes go to?

Since 99.9% of the men I talk to look at my chest I don't have to guess.

 

[Paul S]

Since 99.9% of the men I talk to look at my chest I don't have to guess.

I hope you're not wearing pants on your chest.

 

[bostonlass]

I hope you're not wearing pants on your chest.

Nope.

But honestly, men pay more attention to me when I wear a skirt than when I wear pants and to boot when I have to make a presentation, I wear a pantsuit. Period. If I wore a skirt suit I would not be taken as seriously.

 

[marciadietrich]

Why do you think the feminists in the 1920s wanted women to wear pants?

And there's also been studies of where men look when they see women wearing pants - and guess which part of the body the eyes go to?

Well there was a comment by a woman on the board here some months ago that pants were invented to show off men's "packages" ... but I had to disagree and said the eyes go to what we want to see and it was the opposite side for me.

My butt cannot be missed regardless of what I wear. And I sit with my legs apart and my hands between my legs ... I think men are far safer if I wear pants.