One thing alone can separate us from God and cause us to lose that true life for which he made us and that one thing is sin.  For any thought or word or act that is contrary to the holiness of God is by its very nature sinful, and sin itself is in essence rebellion against God, a perverse desire to be independent of him who is the ultimate source of all goodness and of all joy.

If we should ever think that our sins do not matter, let us reflect that if such a notion were true, Our Blessed Lord’s life and death were a waste of time and a waste of pain for he came for no other purpose than to free each single one of us from the power of sin, and to restore us, thus freed, to God.