What are some examples of sins of omission?

Living The Gospel This week. What are some examples of sins of omission?

With the message of today’s parable, let’s first see how the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the sin of omission, highlighting some of them.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines a sin of omission as a failure to perform a good that one is obliged to do toward God or one's neighbor (#1853). Such an obligation lies within one's power and done with knowledge and deliberate will.

Sins of omission vary in their gravity. For example, if I were to choose not to attend Mass on Sundays or holy days of obligation with full knowledge and deliberate consent, then I would be morally culpable. (CCC 2181, 2182). The sin of euthanasia where omission leads to death (CCC 2277). One could also be venially culpable for a lighter sin of omission (Not washing the dishes due to my laziness. We could also meditate in Jesus’ list of the corporal works of mercy in Matthew 25:31-46 as a list of some sins of omission. We conclude with St. Thomas Aquinas’s articulation of the first principle of morality:

“Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided” (Summa Theologiae, I-II: 94:2).

Morality doesn’t just consist of avoiding evil but also doing good.