The sin of power and control

[LittleFlower378]

What seven deadly sin would the sin of wanting power and trying to control others fall under? Sometimes even in my own marriage I do things that are conrolling to my wife. What would be a good way to change? What would be a good prayer to say?

Thank you, Peace - Matt O.F.S.

 

[fhansen]

What seven deadly sin would the sin of wanting power and trying to control others fall under? Sometimes even in my own marriage I do things that are conrolling to my wife. What would be a good way to change? What would be a good prayer to say?

Thank you, Peace - Matt O.F.S.

Pride, I would think. Pray for humility.

 

[LittleFlower378]

Thanks fhansen, I like your quote by St.Augustine. Yes, the humility and poverty of spirit to know that God is in control. That comes first and foremost. Also, could the sin may be more directly related to lust?

 

[fhansen]

Thanks fhansen, I like your quote by St.Augustine. Yes, the humility and poverty of spirit to know that God is in control. That comes first and foremost. Also, could the sin may be more directly related to lust?

Well, it certainly could be. Here’s a pertinent quote from the Catechism on the consequences of Original Sin:

400 The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul’s spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.282 Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.283 Because of man, creation is now subject “to its bondage to decay”.284 Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will “return to the ground”,285 for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.286

 

[LittleFlower378]

very fitting section of the Catechism. Thanks a mil A & E!!!