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, if the donor makes the date ofthe Mass a _conditio sine qua non_, or if the Mass must be said at onceon account of an urgent and immediate necessity). Even a speech wordedobscurely because the matter is obscure, or because the listener wouldbe harmed by plainer speech (see 1001), is not mendacious but prudent. Employment and honest wages are in the long run to theadvantage of employers as well as of employees, and are therefore goodbusiness as well as good morals. l), and certainly marriage, acontract and vocation that binds until death and upon which thespiritual a

--Thefirst precept of the Church has two parts, an affirmative (preceptive)part which commands the hearing of Mass, and a negative (prohibitive)part which forbids the doing of servile works. ooks to reparation toGod for the injury done Him, and it therefore punishes the sinner bysadness for his misdeeds. --(a) Origin. The Theological Species of Ingratitude.