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(b) Impossibility can excuse from a law in which an act is necessarybecause it is prescribed, and which therefore makes one guilty of sin,if one willfully neglects it (necessity of precept). The Englishlanguage as a whole is singularly free from blasphemous expressions,just as English classic literature as a whole is singularly free fromobscenity. Examples:Claudius has a grudge against Sempronius, an elderly man who is muchhis senior, and says he will never salute him as others do. You know, like Seldon, Hardin, Mallow, Devers and allthe rest.

--The second class of acts that areunder the control of the will are those that proceed, not from the willitself, but from the other powers under the direction of the will. Thus, to fulfill the Easter precept of yearlyConfession and Communion well, it is not required that one make aformal act of faith before Confession, since faith is included in theact of contrition. We are concerned here, therefore, only with external blasphemy,which is contrary to the external profession of faith. Under these same conditions, then, Mass may be said fornon-Catholics, both living and dead (Canon 2262, Sec.