The Truth About Mortal and Venial Sin Every Catholic Needs to Hear Today

[00:00:00]Conditions of mortal and venial sin.

[00:00:05]Knowledge, free will, grave matter.

[00:00:08]Contrary to the teaching of Bañez and the reformers, a sin must be a voluntary act.

[00:00:15]Those actions alone are properly called human or moral actions >> [music] >> which proceed from the human will deliberately acting with knowledge of the end for which it acts.

[00:00:26]Man differs from all irrational creatures in this, precisely that he is master of his actions [music] by virtue of his reason and free will.

[00:00:38]Since sin is a human act wanting in due rectitude, it must have, in so far as it is a human act, [music] the essential constituents of a human act.

[00:00:49]The intellect must perceive and judge of the morality of the act, and the will must freely elect.

[00:00:56]For a deliberate mortal sin, there must be full advertence on [music] the part of the intellect and full consent on the part of the will in [music] a grave matter.

[00:01:07]An involuntary transgression of the law, even in a grave matter, [music] is not a formal, but a material sin.

[00:01:15]The gravity of the matter is judged [music] from the teaching of scripture, the definitions of councils and popes, and also from reason.

[00:01:25]Those sins are judged to be mortal which contain in themselves some grave disorder [music] in regard to God, our neighbor, ourselves, or society.

[00:01:37]Some sins admit of no lightness of [music] matter, as for example, blasphemy, hatred of God. They are always mortal ex toto genere suo, unless rendered venial by want of full advertence on the part of the intellect [music] or full consent on the part of the will.

[00:01:57]Other sins >> [music] >> admit lightness of matter.

[00:02:01]They are grave sins ex genere suo inasmuch as their matter in itself [music] is sufficient to constitute a grave sin without the addition of any other matter, but is of such a nature that in a given case, owing to its smallness, the sin may be venial, for example, theft.

[00:02:23]Conditions for venial sin.

[00:02:27]Venial sin is committed when the matter of the sin is light, even though the advertence of the intellect and consent of the will are full [music] and deliberate. And when, even though the matter of the sin be grave, there is not full advertence [music] on the part of the intellect and full consent on the part of the will.

[00:02:51]A precept obliges sub gravi under grave matter when it has for its object an important [music] end to be attained and its transgression is prohibited under penalty of losing God's friendship.

[00:03:07]A precept obliges sub levi under light [music] when it is not so directly imposed.

[00:03:15]God bless you.