Grave misdeeds, dismal wicked ways

Take away the Light of Spirit Holy

And baseless, doltish presumption

Of blessed, blissful, beatific days

Minds black as cavernous pit

Dissenters, thickheaded heretics

Distorting Doctrines Perpetual bit by bit

No sage thought of damnation admit.

Minds defying the Infallible Authority

Using deposit of Faith as mere commodity

Daring to twist restorative, Saving Truth

Choosing perfidious, infernal tread of frivolity

To raise urgently loyal shouts and din

Of host of perils, immortal damages

Of impenitent deadly sin

Acts unguided by Light impart no win

One dying in impenitent sin mortal

Cannot ascend to heavenly portal

Grave transgression leads to ghastly

Permanent finality

- - - - - - - For poisoning, murdering

- - - - - - - - - - - - Life-giving charity

Pride, as pernicious infidelity

To violent, enmity, 

Joined with unrepentant grave sin

Becomes forever - damnatory reality

Oodles of souls fall into 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")