What a great sin!

Of course it is a great sin to steal, slander, kill, injure, promote injustice, and other evil actions. All this is promoted by darkness, and the abuse of freedom leads human beings with a desire for greed, revenge, envy, hatred, to commit acts in a miserable, unpleasant, degrading and destructive truth. But there is a sin that is perhaps as great as the previous one, but not quite as great famous or respected. It is a sin of omission, which consists in not doing good at the moment when it should have been done.

It is the execution of works dear master that they had to be done at a certain time in history and were not done. Keep silent when you had to prophesy. It’s not feeding the next one when you had to. It is not to hug, support, comfort, encourage a depressed person, sunk in his sadness. This is not listening to the distressed when he asks to be helped. It is not joining together in solidarity groups that acted in favor of the poorest when necessary. He was not an active member the church that evangelizes when there are so many people who “walk like sheep without a shepherd.”

It is not fervently going to the Eucharist and living it, knowing that Christ it is present there in his soul, body, blood and divinity, or what is worse, despise him and stop attending mass. The sin of omission is not reading The Word of God with the necessary frequency, devotion and concentration, exchanging that moment for any trifle, the banality of the world, which leaves nothing positive. The sin of omission was committed by a Jewish priest the parable of the good Samaritan passing when his monk brother was half dead. His excuse was that he was going to the temple and did not have time for that.

A sin of omission leaves a gap in history that no one can fulfill it. It causes great disasters when combined with the sin of omission of many, as when racist groups, religious or national fanatics, or elitist economic movements destroy communities or entire cities, destroying them before the indifferent gaze of many. That sin of failing to look the other way, when white racism excluded blacks from many of its own rights in the United States or Germany “pure races” killed millions in concentration camps, or Stalin mercilessly killed millions of Russians, or in our Third World countries corruption and structured injustice exclude millions of people from the basic means of living, that sin is terrible. indifference, “I don’t care”, “it is a fatal, terrible sin of omission”.