28 SIN 



by sincere contrition and penitence, through the 

 merits of Jesus Christ. She exhorts her chil- 

 dren to avoid all venial sins by means of prayer, 

 self-discipline, and the grace of God, because 

 no man is allowed to commit even the slight- 

 est offense against the majesty and justice of 

 God. 34 



"No confessor," says Gury, "does his full duty 

 unless he tries to wean his penitents from fre- 

 quent venial sins, especially such as involve full 

 advertence, since a man who does not strive to 

 avoid venial sins easily falls into mortal sins." 35 



Readings. — St. Thomas, Summa Theologica, ia 2ae, qu. 72, 

 art. 5; qu. 88-89. — Idem, De Malo, qu. 7, art. 1-2. — Idem, Summa 

 contra Gentiles, III, c. 143-144. — Scheeben, Dogmatik, Vol. II, 

 pp. 528 sqq. — F. X. Linsenmann, Lehrbuch der Moraltheologie, 

 pp. 156 sqq. — Chr. Pesch, S.J., Theologische Zeitfragen, II, 

 Freiburg 1901, pp. 47 sqq., 83 sqq. — J. Stufler, S.J., Die Heilig- 

 keit Gottes und der ewige Tod, Innsbruck 1903. — Idem, Die 

 Theorien der freiwilligen Vcrstocktheit, Innsbruck 1905. — H. 

 Gerigk, Wesen und V oraussetzungen der Todsiinde, Breslau 

 I 903- — Ph. Kneib, Die "Jenseitsmoral," pp. 99 sqq. — Th. Slater, 

 S.J., A Manual of Moral Theology, Vol. I, pp. 136 sqq. — Wil- 

 helm-Scannell, A Manual of Catholic Theology, Vol. I, pp. 6 

 sqq. — J. Mausbach, Catholic Moral Teaching and Its Antagonists, 

 New York 1914, pp. 258 sqq. 



34 Rom. Ill, 8. peccatorum venialium, maxime cum 



35 J. P. Gury, Comp. Theol. Mor., plena advertentia commissorum, 

 Vol. I, n. 155: "Confessarius non quum poenitcns, qui non satagit ut 

 satisfacit muneri suo, si non curet, venialia vitet, cito plerumque in 

 ut poenitentem removeat a frequentia mortalia labatur." 



