Preaching by St. Alphonsus de Liguori
Hence it is a sin to reply to parents in a tone of resentment, or in a loud, disrespectful tone of voice. It is a greater sin to deride them, to mock them, to utter imprecations against them, to insult them by calling them fools, beasts, robbers, drunkards, sorcerers, miscreants, or any such opprobrious names. Words of this kind, when uttered in their presence, are mortal sins. In the Old Law, they who injured their father or mother were condemned to death. He that cursed his father or mother shall die the death? At present they are not punished with temporal death, but they are accursed by God and condemned to eternal death. He is cursed of God that angereth his mother.