Pride is the excessive belief in one’s own abilities that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It is traditionally seen as the sin from which all other sins arise for in Pride we put ourselves in the place of God.
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Lust is defeated in sacrifice and in finding a higher love than the flesh. It is defeated in the words “Woman, behold your son . . . son, behold your mother.”
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Lust is the inordinate love of the pleasures of the flesh, usually, but not necessarily, of a sexual manner.
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Sheen contrasts the sin of envy with the virtue of the pity that the righteous thief on the cross had for Christ.
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In the theological sense, envy is not a type of jealousy or covetousness where we desire something that someone else has; rather envy is a sadness at another’s good (Aquinas), a love for the misfortune of a neighbor (Dante), or pain at the sight of good fortune (Aristotle).
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This week’s discussion is on anger and Christ’s words from the cross “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”
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Because sinful anger results from ignorance, it is the virtue of forgiveness that overcomes the sin of anger.
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When we began Ezekiel, the prophet is in exile sitting by the River Chebar and had a vision of the Glory of God leaving the Temple in Jerusalem. The readings this week open with the vision of a rebuilt and restored Temple and the return of the Glory of God to the Temple, filling it.
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In both Ezekiel’s prophecy and John’s Gospel, this Good Shepherd discourse (Ezek. 36, John 10) is followed by a discourse on the resurrection (Ezek. 37, John 11).
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On a deeper level, however, this chapter speaks to the general resurrection of all of God’s people and the unification of the Kingdom of Heaven with both Jews and Gentiles under God’s Messiah.
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