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Montie_Claunch
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I would like to read up on the seven deadly sins. No one has ever gone into deep detail on this subject with me and I am curious. Does anyone know of any good books on the subject? Thanks and God bless.
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awfulthings9
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Hey Monte,
Didn’t Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey team up on a documentary about them called “7”? Kidding, of course.
I don’t think I have the titles you are looking for, but I will say that when I read St. John of the Cross’s “Dark Night of the Soul” recently, he uses the 7 sins to format the first few chapters, which explore the reasons why someone may need such an experience. For instance, there is a whole chapter on pride in our worship. Some of them he combines and a couple he doesn’t hit very well, but some of what he had to say was incredible and hit me where I needed to be hit.
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Didn’t Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey team up on a documentary about them called “7”? Kidding, of course.
I don’t think I have the titles you are looking for, but I will say that when I read St. John of the Cross’s “Dark Night of the Soul” recently, he uses the 7 sins to format the first few chapters, which explore the reasons why someone may need such an experience. For instance, there is a whole chapter on pride in our worship. Some of them he combines and a couple he doesn’t hit very well, but some of what he had to say was incredible and hit me where I needed to be hit.
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Oliviad
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There is a reason for the order they are listed in:
the smaller a sin seems, the easier it is to miss it - and to think a sin has some sort of rights to venial status is mortal. Venial sins are venial not merely because of their form alone, but due to the slight premeditation, or unexpected temptation to commit them. On the other hand, to take time to justify a venial sin already committed, is to flippantly demand, over and against the fact of whatever slight the sin had caused you to pay GOD, that you need not feel so bad for it, since it was venial. If one comes around a corner a little carelessly, not heeding a quick flash in the mind to look before proceding, and he rams into an elderly lady and breaks her hip, hardly having had a moment to reflect on the thought for the missed precaution, so long as he feels badly for the hurt he caused, his sin is venial - but should he, just because he hadn’t intended in his carelessness to do quite this, place the fact that it was a venial sin in intent before concern that he in fact caused another to suffer for a degree of carelessness, then that attitude makes him guilty of a weightier sin. To insist rather on the degree of lightness of a sin, rather than take responsibility for the full weight of what Love was lacked in sinning, is to act very strange to the SPIRIT OF GOD, and to commit a mortal affrontery to GOD.
Thus, it is useful to be most dilligent about all seven deadly sins, from least to greatest.
the smaller a sin seems, the easier it is to miss it - and to think a sin has some sort of rights to venial status is mortal. Venial sins are venial not merely because of their form alone, but due to the slight premeditation, or unexpected temptation to commit them. On the other hand, to take time to justify a venial sin already committed, is to flippantly demand, over and against the fact of whatever slight the sin had caused you to pay GOD, that you need not feel so bad for it, since it was venial. If one comes around a corner a little carelessly, not heeding a quick flash in the mind to look before proceding, and he rams into an elderly lady and breaks her hip, hardly having had a moment to reflect on the thought for the missed precaution, so long as he feels badly for the hurt he caused, his sin is venial - but should he, just because he hadn’t intended in his carelessness to do quite this, place the fact that it was a venial sin in intent before concern that he in fact caused another to suffer for a degree of carelessness, then that attitude makes him guilty of a weightier sin. To insist rather on the degree of lightness of a sin, rather than take responsibility for the full weight of what Love was lacked in sinning, is to act very strange to the SPIRIT OF GOD, and to commit a mortal affrontery to GOD.
Thus, it is useful to be most dilligent about all seven deadly sins, from least to greatest.
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aaronmeurett
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johnq
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**Bathe Seven Times
**Mother Nadine’s teaching on the Seven Capital Sins reveals the seven capital sins and how they are hidden within our daily lives. Also teaches the virtues that need to be cultivated to come against each sin.
To order contact
**Intercessors of the Lamb
4014 North Post Road
Omaha, NE 68112
Tel: (402)455-5262
E-mail: bellwether@novia.net
Website : www.bellwetheromaha.org
This book will change you life.
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**Mother Nadine’s teaching on the Seven Capital Sins reveals the seven capital sins and how they are hidden within our daily lives. Also teaches the virtues that need to be cultivated to come against each sin.
To order contact
**Intercessors of the Lamb
4014 North Post Road
Omaha, NE 68112
Tel: (402)455-5262
E-mail: bellwether@novia.net
Website : www.bellwetheromaha.org
This book will change you life.
**
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Ana
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The Sinners Guide … Venerable Louis de Granada
Explores in depth each capital sin, as well as methods of overcoming.
Great book. My copy is just horrendous to look at. Dogeared pages, foodstains, highlighted, dropped in bathtub … all the signs of a favored teddy bear.
Explores in depth each capital sin, as well as methods of overcoming.
Great book. My copy is just horrendous to look at. Dogeared pages, foodstains, highlighted, dropped in bathtub … all the signs of a favored teddy bear.
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Joysong
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ewtn.com/library/SPIRIT/SLP2B1C4.TXT
We are so lucky to have this treatise on line, for I was not able to find any place for you to purchase a personal copy. Neither Amazon nor a favorite site that resells classics have it. This was often required reading in the seminary. This section of the book not only describes the seven capital sins, but suggests practices for overcoming them.
Carole
We are so lucky to have this treatise on line, for I was not able to find any place for you to purchase a personal copy. Neither Amazon nor a favorite site that resells classics have it. This was often required reading in the seminary. This section of the book not only describes the seven capital sins, but suggests practices for overcoming them.
Carole
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catsrus
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The Seven Deadly Sins Today - Henry Farlie
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AlanFromWichita
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I don’t remember the exact way he put it, but my SD once addressed a question I had about the seven deadly sins…
He said something to the effect that they are not sins, per se, but tendencies toward sin.
That may not be exactly right because in the Dark Night, St. John uses the term “the sin of pride” in his expositions.
Anyway, seems there was something unique about those sins other than their deadliness. I wish he was still here so I could ask for clarification.
Alan
He said something to the effect that they are not sins, per se, but tendencies toward sin.
That may not be exactly right because in the Dark Night, St. John uses the term “the sin of pride” in his expositions.
Anyway, seems there was something unique about those sins other than their deadliness. I wish he was still here so I could ask for clarification.
Alan
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