Grave misdeeds, dismal wicked ways
Take away the Light of Spirit Holy...
And baseless, doltish presumption
Of blessed, blissful, beatific days...
Minds vacuous, black as cavernous pit
Insane dissenters, thickheaded heretics
Distorting Doctrines Perpetual bit by bit
No sage thought of damnation admit.
Minds defying God's Pure, Infallible Authority
Using deposit of Faith as mere commodity
Daring to twist restorative, Saving Truth
Choosing perfidious, infernal tread of frivolity.
To raise urgently steadfast, loyal din...
Of host of perils, immortal damages
Of blameful and impenitent deadly sin...
Acts unguided by Faith's Light impart no win.
Suffering from severe disorder... head
Take heed that a soul is downright dead
- - - - - - - In perpetrating one mortal sin!
And, one dying in un-contrite sin mortal
Will never ascend to heavenly portal...
Deadly sin cannot be an apple of discord
As fully revealed by Author of Salvation
For grave offense, one cannot afford
As asinine notion as "sin's relativity"!
Grave transgression is wholly joined
With ghastly - permanent finality...
- - - - - - - For poisoning, murdering
- - - - - - - - - - - - Life-giving charity!
Pride, as pernicious stimulus
To violent, enmity, infidelity
Tying in... with unrepentant deadly sin
Retains forever - damnatory reality!
Owing to scandalous Truth's perversity
And remorseless sin's absurdity...
Oodles of souls fall into dire lake of fire
Unquenchable, everlasting fire... with rapidity...
"First of all, one mortal sin strikes a soul dead, driving out from it the Holy Ghost, sanctifying grace, and Charity. Secondly, one such sin destroys all the merits of a long life... Thirdly, one such sin mortifies, kills and destroys the saving power of every action that the soul may do while in that state of separation from God. Fourthly, it weakens both the supernatural elements that remain in the soul (the virtues of Faith and Hope), and the natural powers and faculties of the soul itself. Lastly, it brings the soul into the double debt of guilt and pain. These are the five effects of a mortal sin - a sin which will surely take the sinner down to Hell, to eternal death, unless he repents."
- Henry Edward Manning - ("Sin and Its Consequences")
"The 'sin against the Holy Ghost,' which 'shall never be forgiven,' is a sin unto death. This comprises sins that embody a stubborn resistance to the inspirations of the Holy Ghost and His work in the soul, and an open contempt for His gifts. These sins are six: despair of one's salvation, presumption of God's mercy (while remaining in mortal sin), resisting the known truths of faith, envy of another's spiritual good, obstinacy in sin, and final impenitence. Although no sin is absolutely unpardonable, those who sin against the Holy Ghost stubbornly resist the influence of grace and do not wish to repent, hence their sin cannot be forgiven."
- Henry Edward Manning - ("Sin and Its Consequences")