Post by Eric Gajewski on Mar 23, 2017 16:47:33 GMT
Tradcatknight: Television: An Occasion of Sin?
Pope Pius XII: Encyclical Miranda Prorsus,
(Sept. 8, 1957)
Dear Christian parents, are you CONSCIOUS of your terrible responsibility? Do you realize that due to the weakness of accepting and of keeping at home that tool, a source of corruption of minds and souls, you are the cause of unsuspected damages to innocent souls? Because of your cowardice, souls, tender and pure, are stained by the infamous sin? These children will stand up at the last judgment and will accuse you of having been the cause of their damnation....
Let us remember the Saviour's grave words: "He that shall scandalise one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt.XVIII,6).
Do you understand, by this sad example, what is an occasion of sin? Our catechism teaches us that we must avoid not only sin, but also the occasion of sin and that it is as grievous to put ourselves (or to put others) in the occasion of sin as it is to commit the sin itself, when we know by experience that we will fall into that sin. (...).
tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2017/03/television-occasion-of-sin.html
Pope Pius XII: Encyclical Miranda Prorsus,
(Sept. 8, 1957)
Dear Christian parents, are you CONSCIOUS of your terrible responsibility? Do you realize that due to the weakness of accepting and of keeping at home that tool, a source of corruption of minds and souls, you are the cause of unsuspected damages to innocent souls? Because of your cowardice, souls, tender and pure, are stained by the infamous sin? These children will stand up at the last judgment and will accuse you of having been the cause of their damnation....
Let us remember the Saviour's grave words: "He that shall scandalise one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt.XVIII,6).
Do you understand, by this sad example, what is an occasion of sin? Our catechism teaches us that we must avoid not only sin, but also the occasion of sin and that it is as grievous to put ourselves (or to put others) in the occasion of sin as it is to commit the sin itself, when we know by experience that we will fall into that sin. (...).
tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2017/03/television-occasion-of-sin.html