Peace be to you.

In the last lesson we spoke about sin in general and said that from the natural point of view,

it was a violation of the law of God.

Every sin has a triple effect.

First of all, it divides a person from himself.

Two from his neighbor and three from God.

First of all, from himself.

Because it makes the soul a kind of a battlefield.

After a sin, one always feels like a menagerie, full of wild beasts. Then sin also alienates a man from his

neighbor. A man who cannot live with himself cannot live with his neighbor. That is why

Kane after his sin asked, am I my brother's keeper?

Finally, it estranges us from God and gives us a sense of loneliness.

In some way, we dam up and block up the mind which ought to have communion with God.

And the result is that all of the scum and the flotsam and jetsam of life are crowded back upon us.

Now, sin is of two kinds. It can be mortal or venal.

Here we speak of personal or actual sins.

The difference between the two is very easy to understand.

We speak of someone receiving a mortal wound in the physical order, namely it is one that

kills him.

If however he is not seriously wounded, that would be equivalent to a vignal sin.

Now in immortal sin, and for those who are in the supernatural order, grace is killed.

Divine life is extinguished.

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