Heh, isn’t it weird how a simple exhortation gets changed into *It’s a mortal sin to skip mass.*
Stunning, really.
I will never forget being told on here that I'm going to hell for leaving the catholic church, which was then followed up by another poster on that same thread telling me that I can never leave the catholic church, "once a catholic always a catholic."
Things that must make me shake my head here on FR .....
Gotta keep that control.
I tell ya...I don't know how the average Roman Catholic doesn't live in constant fear. If I were Roman Catholic I wouldn't let the priest out of my sight.
We see the "mortal sins" committed by Roman Catholics on these threads.
Per Roman Catholicism they've lost their salvation at that point. What a terrifying prospect to consider if you're Roman Catholic. What if you can't get to the priest to confess? Your eternal destination, per Roman Catholicism, is Hell (CCC 1472 To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence.
Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life, the privation of which is called the "eternal punishment" of sin.
On the other hand every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified either here on earth, or after death in the state called Purgatory. This purification frees one from what is called the "temporal punishment" of sin. These two punishments must not be conceived of as a kind of vengeance inflicted by God from without, but as following from the very nature of sin. A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain.84). http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c2a4.htm
Thankfully Christianity believes this promise from Jesus.
24“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24 NASB
It is the desire of all Christians that people come out of Roman Catholicism and follow Christ.