Devotion of the day: flee venial sins, do an act of contrition

Faith says its gravity. Venial sin is certainly less than mortal, but it is also an offense against God. If mortal sin is a contempt for the Majesty of God, venial is a lack of respect for Him; the mortal is a hatred of God, the venial is an indifference to Him; the mortal is a loss of Charity, the venial is its cooling; the one is a deviation from the ultimate end, the other is a departure. You think about it?

Venial sin is an offense against God. However small the sin may be, it offends not a creature, not a king, but God himself: will it therefore be a worthless thing? Could it be committed laughing, because it is only a lie, a vanity, an impatience, that is, a venial sin? Meditate 1 ° that it is necessarily hated by God, who cannot approve or want it without ceasing to be God. 2 ° It would be better for the universe to be destroyed than to allow oneself venial sin. If I reflected…!

No good excuses venial sin. Whatever excuse, whatever good purpose you put forward, even if it were the liberation of all Souls in Purgatory, does not make venial sin lawful. In comparison with an infinite, offended God, what can be greater or more important? Should I also suffer any punishment or reproof; I had to give my life like martyrs, rather than tell a lie: everything, everything I must bear in order not to offend God, the Lord. the infinite Majesty. For the past I've done?

PRACTICE. - He fled venial sins: he makes an act of contrition.