Catholic Word of the Day: SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT, 08-04-12

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[Salvation]

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SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT

Major offenses that carry a stubborn resistance to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and a contempt of his gifts. They are despair of one's salvation, envy of another's spiritual good, opposing known truths of faith, obstinacy in sin, presumption of God's mercy, and final impenitence. Because those who sin in this way, resisting grace, do not wish to repent, we say that their sins cannot be forgiven them.

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[Salvation]

To repeat:

a stubborn resistance to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and a contempt of his gifts
despair of one's salvation
envy of another's spiritual good
opposing known truths of faith
obstinacy in sin
presumption of God's mercy
and final impenitence

[Salvation]

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Anthroposophy	Genuflection	Semites
Vow of Poverty	Erastianism	Temporal
Private Revelations	Source of Sin	Carpenter’s Square
Physical Solitude	Papal Choir	Anti-Catholicism
Meditation	Commutative Justice	Auri Sacra Fames
Anglo-Catholicism	Prophecy	Elevation of the Host
League of the Sacred Heart	External Graces	Perichoresis
Apolysis	State of Grace	La Disputa
Transcendentals	Bolshevism	Demiurge
Barsabbas	Genus	Victimae Paschali
Childermas Day	Satanism	Scholasticism
Breaking of the Host	Praises of God	Piarists
True Conscience	Infidel	Confessio
Charismatic Movement	Freedom of Thought	Missale Romanum
Acts of the Martyrs	Canon	Shepherd of Hermas
Gridiron	Biogenesis	Sin Against the Holy Spirit

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[Lady Lucky]

“despair of one’s salvation...presumption of God’s mercy”

That’s a fine line we must walk.

[Elsiejay]

The sole unforgivable sin is complete rejection of the Holy Spirit of God, which I take to be the fundamental kernel of truth herein outlined.

[the invisib1e hand]

seems like ya can’t win.