<http://www.fisheaters.com/lists.html>The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven
Willful murder The sin of Sodom Oppression of the poor Defrauding laborers of their wages <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen004.htm>Genesis 4:10: 10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen018.htm>Genesis 18:20: 20 And the <../cathen/06608a.htm>Lord said: The cry of <../cathen/14130a.htm>Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their <../cathen/14004b.htm>sin is become exceedingly grievous. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen019.htm>Genesis 19:13: 13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm>Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/exo003.htm>Exodus 3:7-10: 7 And the <../cathen/06608a.htm>Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in <../cathen/05329b.htm>Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; 8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the <../cathen/05329b.htm>Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a <../cathen/06636b.htm>good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the <../cathen/03569b.htm>Chanaanite, and <../cathen/07305a.htm>Hethite, and <../cathen/01433c.htm>Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite. 9 For the cry of the <../cathen/08193a.htm>children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the <../cathen/05329b.htm>Egyptians. 10 But come, and I will send thee to <../cathen/11788c.htm>Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth my people, the <../cathen/08193a.htm>children of Israel, out of <../cathen/05329b.htm>Egypt. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/exo020.htm>Exodus 2-:20-22 20 And <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10596a.htm>Moses said to the people: <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm>Fear not; for <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm>God is come to prove you, and that the dread of him might be in you, and you should not <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm>sin. 21 And the people stood afar off. But <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10596a.htm>Moses went to the dark cloud wherein <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm>God was. 22 And the <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm>Lord said to <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10596a.htm>Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08193a.htm>children of Israel: You have seen that I have <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13001a.htm>spoken to you from <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07170a.htm>heaven. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/deu024.htm>Deuteronomy 24:14-15: 14 Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the <../cathen/12327a.htm>needy, and the <../cathen/12327a.htm>poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates: 15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is <../cathen/12327a.htm>poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the <../cathen/06608a.htm>Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a <../cathen/14004b.htm>sin. <http://www.newadvent.org/bible/jam005.htm>James 5:4: 4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by <../cathen/06249a.htm>fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the <../cathen/06608a.htm>Lord of <../cathen/13286a.htm>Sabaoth. From the Catechism: <http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a8.htm>V. THE PROLIFERATION OF SIN<http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a8.htm> 1865 Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root. 1866 Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices.138 They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia. 1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,139 the sin of the Sodomites,140 the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,141 the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,142 injustice to the wage earner.143 139 Cf. Gen 4:10. 140 Cf. Gen 18:20; 19:13. 141 Cf. Ex 3:7-10. 142 Cf. Ex 20:20-22. 143 Cf. Deut 24:14-15; Jas 5:4. 1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; - by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; - by protecting evil-doers. 1869 Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. "Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin."144 IN BRIEF 1870 "God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all" (Rom 11:32). 1871 Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22:PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ. 1872 Sin is an act contrary to reason. It wounds man's nature and injures human solidarity. 1873 The root of all sins lies in man's heart. The kinds and the gravity of sins are determined principally by their objects. 1874 To choose deliberately - that is, both knowing it and willing it - something gravely contrary to the divine law and to the ultimate end of man is to commit a mortal sin. This destroys in us the charity without which eternal beatitude is impossible. Unrepented, it brings eternal death. 1875 Venial sin constitutes a moral disorder that is reparable by charity, which it allows to subsist in us. 1876 The repetition of sins - even venial ones - engenders vices, among which are the capital sins. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Kingdom!<*}}}>< Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. 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