Orthodox view of purgatory

[Michael G]

Hi, narnia.

A difference here is that Catholics are used to everything being defined, listed, categorized, quantified, etc within the Catholic Church, while very, very few things are so "officially defined" within Orthodoxy. So while the great preponderance of Tradition will fall on the side of not categorizing sins, there will be some whose writings may indicate some categories. I suppose it is possible to declare some sins as "deadly" because of their operation on our souls, but even then it is not some hard-and-fast understanding. And on the other side, declaring sins as only "venial" would really be dangerous, because as someone else has already posted, *any* sin can become deadly, no matter how trivial it might seem. And the moment you start classifying sins, that is the moment that they start becoming trivialized in peoples' minds.

Mary