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PAGE 4—THE BULLETIN, November 14, 1959
JOSEPH BRE1G
WHO CAN HEAR IT?
I can imagine how Pope John
perhaps felt.
There he was, saying the
same thing that Christ said, that
countless saints have said, that
Pope St. Pius
X said with
extraordinary
fervor, and
that all the
popes since
have been
saying over
and over.
And Pope
John maybe wondered wnetner
anybody was paying attention.
The Holy Father was speak
ing by radio to tens of thou
sands assembled in Sicily for
Italy’s National Eucharistic
Congress.
He was talking about Holy
Communion:
“The 20 centuries of progress
in science, art, culture and eco
nomics, the changes in the poli
tical and social fields, have not
diminished the value of the
words of Christ: ‘Amen, amen
I say to you, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man, and
drink his blood, you shall not
have life in you . . . This is the
bread that has come down from
heaven . . . He who eats this
bread shall live forever.’ ”
Reporters said there was
strong emotion in the pope’s
voice as he cried out:
“Oh, if the Eucharist were
only better understood by
Christians, and more worthily
and frequently received, how
much more full would be the
fruits of concord, peace and spi
ritual life for the Church and
for the whole world!”
True devotion to Christ in
Communion, Pope John went
on “brings loyalty and moral
rectitude, even though at the
price of personal sacrifice.”
He might have added that the
sacrifice is ordinarily small, and
the rewards beyond the power
of words to express.
What are the sacrifices?
Well, of course, confessing
sins is one, if they are grevious
sins. If they aren’t confession is
not necessary for Communion.
Confessing mortal sins takes
backbone, all right. But if the
sins are there, confessing them
is something that’s got to be
done, the sooner the better.
Fooling around with grave
sins is deadlier than Russian
roulette. The thing to do is wipe
them out, pronto.
Easy? No, it’s not easy. Pride,
embarrassment and foolish fears
drag at our heels. We’ve got to
take ourselves by the seat of the
pants and escort ourselves into
the confessional.
But the thing to do is to do it,
and go on doing it until the
sin is conquered. Otherwise,
where are we? Nowhere.
Aside from confession of
grave sin (if it’s there), the sac
rifice involved in frequent Com
munion is usually nothing to
make a federal case out of.
It amounts to getting out of
bed in the morning and getting
to church.
I hope this won’t sound
preachy, but the greatest be
wilderment in my life, since I
started kicking myself out from
under the covers for daily
Communion, has been the dull
thud every Easter Monday
morning.
All through Lent, churches
and Communion railings are
thronged each morning.
The day after Easter—thump
—everybody is gone except the
small year-around group.
Why? Do we think of Lent
merely as a period of penance
and temporary spiritual activi
ty, a spree of vitamins for our
souls?
That’s shallow. Lent ought to
be a beginning, not an end.
Every last one of us knows
that each day of our lives is
given to us only once. There
are no second helpings.
We know that on some day
we can’t foresee, it’ll all be over
for us on this earth. Joe Blow
(or whatever your name is) will
be gone into the next life, with
or without the Communions
that can fill us with spiritual
beauty.
Why, then, do people receive
Communion every day for 40
days of Lent — and then drop
this daily privilege (the greatest
privilege anybody can have on
earth) until the next Lent?
Blamed if I know. One thing
I’m sure of — it’s not intelli
gent. Christ is waiting to load
us down with good things, and
we’re not there. We must be
sick in the head.
Theology
For The
Layman
Column 42
REDEMPTION (2)
In the Ordinary of the Mass
a grouping of words occurs
twice which, unless we realize
that in the Liturgy no word is
wasted, we might simply take
in our stride.
(I for one
took it in my
stride for thir
ty years or
thereabouts.)
Bet we e n
the Washing
of the Hands
and the Orate
Fratres the priest asks the Holy
Trinity to receive “this oblation
which we offer to Thee in mem
ory of the passion, resurrection
and ascension of Our Lord Jesus
Christ.”
After the Consecration he
says that we offer the sacrifice,
in memory not of Christ’s pas
sion only, but also of His resur
rection from the grave and, as
well, for His glorious ascension
into heaven.
The point of each is the same,
but emphasized more strongly
in the second: the sacrifice
commemorates not only Calva
ry, but Resurrection and Ascen
sion as well. The Resurrection
is not simply a sign that one
man has conquered death; the
Ascension is not simply a way
of letting the Apostles know
that their Christ had really left
this world. Both have their
function, along with Calvary, in
our Redemption. Both belong to
the completeness of the sacri
fice.
Let us pause a moment upon
Sacrifice: for us it is of all ac
tions the highest, since by it
our race was redeemed. From
the beginning men, though they
did not know what ultimately
would be wrought by it, still
saw sacrifice as the highest act
of religion. It was a public act,
a ritual act, performed by one
for the people; by it something
was withdrawn from man’s per
sonal use, made sacred, offered
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Question
Box
By David Q. Lipiak
Q. According to the newspa
pers, one of the witnesses in the
probe into certain TV quiz pro
grams allegedly advised a group
of individuals to perjure them
selves if they were asked cer
tain questions by the investi
gating committee. What I can't
understand is how a person
could possibly appear so callous
to the evil of perjury. Isn't per
jury one of the worst sins con
ceivable, a crime against God
and man alike?
A. Perjury or the deliberate
invocation of God’s name in
confirmation of an assertion one
knows to be false, is certainly
one of the gravest sins conceiv
able, the guilt for which is tre
mendous. This is so not only be
cause perjury involves a lie
(which may or may not be seri
ous, according to the circum
stances) but also because it im
plies contempt for God, who
can neither deceive nor be de
ceived. In view of such con
tempt, perjury, in the sense de
fined, is always a grave sin,
even though the lie sworn to is
of minor importance.
Besides being a blasphemous-
like insult to God and a viola
tion of the truth, (and frequent
ly an act of injustice), perjury
also constitutes an affront to
society. The whole of jurispru
dence, as we know it, rests ul
timately upon reverence for
God. In the traditional concept,
the very competency of a wit
ness is questionable unless he
believes in, and honors God,
who rewards men for good and
punishes them for evil. For giv
en the known trustworthiness
and perfidy of men in general,
how could a court have any as
surance that a witness is truth
ful unless the witness is willing
to confirm his statements by in
voking the most sacred name
of God, the Author of all truth?
It was because of known, wide
spread perfidy that oaths were
invented in the first place. Thus,
oaths did not exist from the be
ginning of the world, but were
introduced only as a necessary
means for securing truthfulness
after the race largely fell victim
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Jottings ...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
1
“Now they have come, those
afternoons in November,
When all the air is still and
the branches are bare,
And the long, lovely night
that I remember
Invades with luminous peace
the untroubled air.”
—Sister M. Madeleva
* * *
• CHARLES VANDOREN,
in happier times, spoke on the
“Today” show of the year his
family had summer all winter
long. His father was on a sebat-
ical and the family remained at
their summer country home all
year. The young VanDoren told
of how his father saw Novem
ber as the cleanest month on
nature’s calendar. There was
nothing unnecessary about No
vember, nature was stripped to
its essentials and yet it was still
beautiful. November with the
Church calendar has always
been representative of the holy
souls. There is a foreboding
gray ness to November. The
Church and nature both be
speak death. I stand somberly
before them. I find much com
fort in the church’s oneness
with the dear dead departed. In
November, we are especially
concentrating on them will all
nature bent in death mood.
* * *
• ILLUSTRATING THE
POWER of simplicity and uni
versality in writing, I cited two
writers to my classes recently.
One is rather humanistic and
the other is completely Catho
lic. They both comtemplate
death and they both are beau
tiful in their simplicity and
honesty. Death is one of the
more popular subjects of poet
and novelist. There is something
elusive, fascinating, romantic
about death which has always
captured the imagination of the
writer. I would like to quote
the two writers I cited for my
class. The first is William Saro
yan and the quotation is from
his rather humanistic fanciful
play, “Time of Your Life.” “In
the time of your life, live so
that in the good time there shall
be no ugliness or death for
yourself or for any life your
life touches. Seek goodness ev
erywhere and where it is found
bring it out of its hiding place
and let it be free and unasham
ed. Place in matter and in flesh
the least of the values, for these
are the things that hold death
and must pass away ... in the
time of your life, live so that
in the wondrous time you shall
not add to the misery and sor
row of the world but shall smile
to the infinite delight and mys
tery of it.”
The other quotation is from
my favorite, “Mr. B 1 u e,” by
Myles Connolly who in his in
imitable manner sees paradise
in these romantic terms: “When
the day comes that the sky is
emptied of the stars, and the
sun is black, and the distraught
winds have only the void for
their lament, I am sure that
somewhere men will be merry
together, somewhere good
hearts will greet good hearts
and somewhere our dreams of
unbroken love and good talk
and laughter will have come
true. This is a glorious some
where, and it is far nearer to
us than the stars. There Dur
Lady talks to unknown moth
ers, who taught their many chil
dren the Love of her Son. There
Xavier is home from his wars.
It is a good place this Some
where. It has been called Par
adise. It has been called the
Tavern at the end of the World.
And it has been called Home.
It is only Catholicism that
would ever allow the like of me
to hope someday to be there.”
These lack the great depth of
Scripture and the promise of
God that those who love Him
on earth shall be happy with
Him for an eternity in heaven
where one day is like a thous
and here. Yet both these have
a romantic element and what
a longing in the human heart.
November perhaps serves in
that way as reminder, too, as
nature subdues itself and casts
a pall around us.
CONVICTIONS
The real problem in life is
not so much where we stand,
but what we stand for,
r
by Brian Cronin
1. Who, in the words of the Bible, “hanged himself with a
halter”?: (a) Pilate? (b) Herod? (c) Judas? (d) Cain?
2. The faithful are granted the following indulgence for kiss
ing the ring of a cardinal: (a) 3 days (b) 40 days? (c) 50
days? (d) 100 days?
3. What was the first of Christ’s Seven Last Words?: (a) “Fa
ther, into Thy hands I commend My spirit”? (b) “My God,
My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me”? (c) “I thirst”? (d)
“Father, forgive them for they know not what the do”?
4. The anti-Catholic May Laws were applied almost a century
ago by what country?: (a) Prussia? (b) France? (c) Mexico?
(d) Russia?
5. Who incurred God’s wrath by disobeying His command in
looking back on the destruction of Sodom?: (a) Solomon?
(b) Lot’s wife? (c) Henoch? (d) Abel?
6. Of the twelve apostles, two were also evangelists. One was
John; who was the other?: (a) Matthew? (b) Luke? (c)
Mark?
7. Who was it said “I am the voice of one crying in the
wilderness. . .”?: (a) Jonah? (b) Peter the Hermit? (c)
Jesus? (d) John the Baptist?
8. On what day is Our Lord’s eventful entry into Jerusalem
commemorated?: (a) Palm Sunday? (b) Holy Thursday? (c)
Easter Sunday? (d) Ash Wednesday.
Give yourself 10 marks for each correct answer below.
Rating: 80, Excellent; 70, Very Good; 60, Good; 50, Fair.
Answers: 1 (c); 2 (d); 3 (d); 4 (a); 5 (b);
6 (a); 7 (d); 8 CaU
How Do You Rate
on Facts of Faith
SHARING OUR TREASURE
God's Grace All Powerful!!
Says Convert
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Noire Dame) r
s
“That family is so opposed to
the Catholic Church that it’s
useless to think of converting
them.” Have you said that of
any family? If so, you’re mis
taken. The Church’s credentials
are convinc
ing and God’s
grace is all-
power ful.
These two
can draw
anybody into
the one true
Church. This
is illustrated
by the experience of the Cecil
T. Jeffords family of Florence,
South Carolina, and particular
ly of Allan, one of the sons, and
now pastor of Our Lady of Per
petual Help parish in Camden,
South Carolina.
“I was reared,” related Father
Jeffords, “as a Baptist and was
a choir member and Sunday
School teacher. But I was spi
ritually hungry and joined the
Lutheran Church, thinking it
would appease that hunger.
Though I was active in it, the
hunger remained. I became ac
quainted with some fervent
Catholics, Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Bardot, Sr., and Miss Dixie
Lewis, and they interested me
in the Catholic Faith by ex
plaining some of its teachings.
“My interest was deepened
when I was teaching catechism
in the Lutheran Sunday School
and was left unsatisfied by
some of the answers. Knowing
that Martin Luther had been a
Catholic, I went to the local
Catholic priest, Father W. A.
Tobin, for help. I did this se
cretly because when I had pre
viously disclosed my interest in
Catholicism, my father warned
me that if I became a Catholic
their home would no longer be
mine.
“Father Tobin explained how
the Church had been in exist
ence for almost 15 centuries be
fore Luther founded his sect on
the principle of private inter
pretation of Scripture. I saw
what devastation that principle
has wrought in the Christian
world. By making each indi
vidual the court of last appeal
in religious matters, it opened
the floodgates of dissension,
splitting Protestantism into
hundreds of bickering sects.
“I soon perceived that Christ
has safeguarded His Church
against such disunity by cloth
ing it with authority to teach in
His name. Here was the divine
safeguard against error and the
guarantee of the Church’s abid
ing unity. Not in vain had
Christ said, “He who hears you,
hears me, and he who rejects
you, rejects me.” (Luke 10:16)
“Here was the insurance
against error that I had long
craved, as well as the certainty
that in hearing the Church I
was hearing the voice of Christ
who had said of her, ‘Behold
I am with you all days, even
unto the consummation of the
world.’ (Matt. 28:20) Upon com
pleting the instructions I was
eager to embrace the Faith, but
Father Tobin advised me to
wait to see if it could be done
without causing a complete
break with my family.
“Shortly afterwards I got a
job in Columbia, South Caroli
na, and was received into the
Church on September 8, 1938,
by Father Charles Sheedy. Then
I wrote home and told them,
asking if I might visit them.
They ..said ‘Yes,’ and when I
went r home nothing was said
about my conversion. The next
year I went off to study for the
priesthood and was ordained by
Bishop Emmett Walsh in my
home parish, St. Anthony’s in
Florence, in June 1946.
“In the meantime my father
and mother had become Cath
olics and at my ordination I had
the great pleasure of giving
them my first priestly blessing.
Their one regret was that they
had waited so long. Now my
grandmother is also a Catholic
and in December 1958 I had the
pleasure of baptizing my bro
ther Cecil. The Church’s cre
dentials are convincing and
God’s grace is all-powerful, and
nobody is beyond their gentle
but all-embracing reach.”
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
SUNDAY, November 15 — St.
Albert the Great, Bishop-Con
fessor-Doctor. This famous Do
minican philosopher and theolo
gian, who was the teacher of
St. Thomas Aquinas, was a Ger
man and one of the greatest of
the Medieval schoolmen. He de
clined many ecclesiastical dig
nities, but at length was per
suaded by the Pope to accept
the Bishopric of Ratisbon. After
three years of able work, he
was allowed to return to his
convent at Cologne, where he
died in 1280 at the age of 88.
His works are published in 26
folio volumes. Pope Pius IX
proclaimed him as Doctor of the
Church.
MONDAY, November 16—St.
Gertrude, Virgin. She lived in
the 14th /century and according
to tradition was. a native of
Saxony. She was a Benedictine
nun and was blessed with high
gifts of mystic prayer. He work,
“Insinuationes Divinae Pietatis,”
is held comparable to the writ
ings of St. Teresa.
TUESDAY, November 17—St.
Gregory the Wonderworker.
Bishop-Confessor. He was born
at Neo-Caesarea, a pagan city
of Pontus near the Black Sea
and about the year 240 became
its Bishop. At his accession
there were but 17 Christians
in the town and on his death
bed he thanked God that there
remained only the same number
of idolaters. His title of Thau-
maturgus, or Wonderworker,
came from his gift of miracles.
He took part in the Council of
Antioch in 264 against Paul of
Samosata.
WEDNESDAY, November 18
—Dedication of the Basilicas of
SS. Peter and Paul. The Basilica
of St. Peter after it was en
larged was consecrated solemn
ly by Pope Urban XIII. The
Basilica of St. Paul was rebuilt
more beautifully after its total
destruction by fire. It was dedi
cated by Pope Pius IX.
THURSDAY, November 19—
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Wid
ow. The daughter of King An-
Russian Natives Are Restless
THE BACKDROP
By JOHN C. O’BRIEN
A new restlessness seems to
be stirring among the people of
the Soviet Union.
The faith of the Russians in
the assurances of their govern
ment that they are fast outdis
tancing the United States seems
to have been shaken, by the
American Ex
hibit at Mos
cow which
reflected the
opulence (by
Soviet stand
ards) avail
able to the
average
Ameri can
family.
They could still believe that
they were ahead of the United
States in rocketry and space
exploration, for even the
Americans did not question
their leadership. But in every
other respect they learned from
the exhibit that they were far
behind.
EMBARRASSING
QUESTIONS
When they saw the abund
ance of consumer goods that
went into the typical American
home — the refrigerators, the
washing machines, the televis
ion sets, the labor saving de
vices, to say nothing of auto
mobiles — they began to rea
lize the price they were paying
for their leadership in arma
ments and space travel.
Now, it seems, they have be
gun to ask embarrassing ques
tions. One bold Muscovite had
the temerity to voice a com
plaint in an unsigned letter to a
Soviet newspaper.
“Enough of covering our
selves with sputniks and lin
ers,” he wrote. “Let’s get down
to the most ordinary half
shoes. I have one pair and al
ready for four years. Why? Be
cause it is from the West. It
has a foreign stamp. I personal
ly don’t need a Tu-114 (a giant
turboprop airplane). The trolley
is enough for me. But I want to
live and dress well.”
That the Soviet authorities
know that this is not an isolated
gripe is evident from the con
cern expressed by Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev in speeches to
his people as he made his way
across Siberia on his return
from Peking.
“Perhaps there are some of
you,” he said at one city, “some
who are wearing boots who
would like to buy a pair of
shoes.”
And from the crowd came
back the cry, “There are. Thei;e
are!”
Repeatedly in the speeches he
made on his homecoming tour,
Khrushchev talked about the
need in Russia for more con
sumer goods, not only for shoes
but for refrigerators and auto
mobiles. He made no specific
promises to provide them, but
he did make it clear that the
desire of the Soviet people for
more of the good things of life
—better housing, more and bet
ter clothing, television sets and
other appliances — was very
much on his mind.
While he was in the United
States, Khrushchev was reluc
tant to admit that he had seen
anything in this country that
had impressed him. He saw
pedigreed cows at the Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Beltsville
experiment station, but he said
he had better cows at home. He
saw prize corn at the Garst
farm in Iowa. It was good corn,
he admitted, but not so good as
Russian corn.
MR. K. UNEASY
But from the tone of the Pre
mier’s speeches since his return
home, it is apparent that he
was stunned by what he saw in
the United States,, by the com
fortable homes in which Ameri
cans live, by the glut of auto
mobiles on the highways, by the
profusion of television sets,
washing machines and refrige
rators, by the cornucopia of ed
ibles displayed in the super
markets.
As he contrasted the way
Americans live with the way of
life of his own people, some
doubts must have crept into his
mind about the real worth of a
leadership in military hard
ware and space exploration
won at such a sacrifice of com
forts by his own people.
To American officials, the un
rest among the Soviet people
and Khrushchev’s admission
that a longing for a pair of
shoes is not unreasonable are
hopeful signs. It is quite possi
ble, they believe, that the
yearning of the Russians for a
less Spartan existence may in
duce the Soviet Premier to un
dertake a serious effort to light
en the burden of armaments
through a disarmament agree
ment and thus free plants, tools
and workers for the production
of more consumer goods.
Father Wharton'*
* View
from the Rectory
II
Some sins are worse than
others. For example, a short
armed fisherman isn’t as big a
liar as a long-armed one.
Perhaps I shouldn’t say that.
Some eager angler is likely to
write in and tell me to stop
making remarks about his ven
erable hobby. Someone always
takes these things to heart.
The story is told about the
editor of a small-town newspa
per who, when hard up for mat
ter on one occasion, had his
compositor set up the Ten Com
mandments without any editori
al comment. A day or so later
he received a letter which read
as follows: “Cancel my sub
scription. You are getting en
tirely too personal.”
We don’t want any cancella
tions, but we can go to the edi
tor one better. The Ten Com
mandments are orders not to
commit definite sins, and there
are many good souls who avoid
at least serious violations.
My list, however, strikes us
more directly. Our first parents
contracted a disease that was
unfortunately to be hereditary:
original sin. The result is that
we Sons and Daughters of the
First Revolution come into the
world with seven deadly in-
dreas II of Hungary, she was
born in 1207 and when only
four years old was promised in
marriage to Louis, son of the
Landgrave of Thuringia. She
was married to him in 1221.
Upon his death 'in 1227, she was
reduced to poverty and forced
from her home, with her chil
dren, by her brother-in-law. At
length she saw her son, Her
man, reinstated in his inherit
ance. She joined the Third Or
der of St. Frances, of which she
is the Patron Saint. She was
noted for her charity and good
works. She died in 1231 and
was canonized four years later
by Pope Gregory IX.
FRIDA*, November 20—St.
Felix of Valois, Confessor. He
was the son of the Count of
Valois and was born in 1127. He
joined the Cistercians, lived for
a time as a hermit in Italy, and
upon his return to France met
St. John of Matha, with whom
he formed the Congregation of
the Holy Trinity, dedicated to
the redemption of Christian
slaves held by the Moors of
Spain and North Africa. St.
Felix lived to see 600 houses
of this community opened. He
died at Cerf-Froid in 1212.
SATURDAY, November 21-
Presentation of the Blessed Vir
gin. This feast commemorates
the presentation of the Blessed
Virgin Mary in the Temple at
Jerusalem at the age of three
by her parents, St. Joachim and
St. Anne,
clinations, the capital sins. Crib
to coffin, everyone must wage
a battle against pride, avarice,
lust, envy, sloth, gluttony and
anger.
So we won’t be accused of
being too personal, we might be
more positive and list the vir
tues opposed to the capital sins:
humility, liberality, chastity,
brotherly love, diligence, tem
perance and meekness. Surely
everyone can find in the list
some virtue to call his own.
My chief aim in bringing up
the distasteful subject of the
capital sins is to point out that
there are seven of them. Seven
—no less. This figure is easy to
remember if you realize that
under normal conditions the
average person in the North
American climate takes about
17 breaths a minute. Subtract
10 from your gasps in an ave
rage minute and you have —
seven.
So? So ask the average adult
between the ages of 7 and 70
what is immorality. The odds
are in favor of his answering,
“Impurity,” Talk about the
beauties of virtue and what
pops into his min d? That’s
right. Purity.
What happened to the other
six capital sins? They’ve been
voted out of the rule-book by
world opinion, that’s right.
Somehow an idea has caught on
that immorality means one
thing — impurity. Even those
who are aware of the seven will
probably consider lust the big
gest enemy.
Of course we don’t minimize
the seriousness of sins of lust.
Heaven knows almost every
sermon on the subject has the
flames of hell licking at the
heels of the lustful. Yet we can
be misled into neglecting the
other six enemies of our soul if
we think our fight concerns
only one.
It was once said of a group
that they were “chaste as an
gels and proud as devils.” Sure
ly pride goes at the top of the
list of serious faults. '
One fellow says he has lots
of humility and is proud of it.
Another harbors in his heart
secret contempt for all the nas
ty sinners around him. Still an
other is just waiting to cast the
first stone as soon as he gets
the news of someone’s fall. I
think we have Christ’s authori
ty for the statement that they’re
in worse shape than the sinners
around them.
Avarice also gets priority on
our list. An executive might be
the most chaste of executives.
But. his soul is quite unhealthy
if he refuses to pay his workers
a just wage, if he is guilty of
practicing discrimination, or if
he defrauds a poor ol’ widow.
There are those who keep ad
mirable control of their pas
sions. They support their fam
ilies and give to charity and live
respectable lives. The trouble is
they don’t attend Mass. Christ
mas and Easter, maybe. Doesn’t
it seem that this sin of sloth is
more cold-blooded and calcu
lated than the fall of the poor
soul overcome by fierce temp
tation.
It’s an axiom of theology that
a sin of malice is more serious
than a sin of weakness. The in
fluence of unfavorable environ
ment, poor training and strong
emotion does not take away
guilt automatically, of course.
But sins resulting from human
frailty are not nearly as deadly
as the more deliberate ones.
For that matter, blasphemy is
the most serious sin a person
could commit. That means hat
red of God, heaping abuse on
Him, calling Him names. Sins of
passion naturally bring a great
er feeling of guilt; but blasp-
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