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=== temptation === | === temptation === | ||
== | == Capital sin == | ||
* "c'''apital sin'''" or "c'''apital vice'''" ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/458/ CCC 1866]) | * "c'''apital sin'''" or "c'''apital vice'''" ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/458/ CCC 1866]) | ||
* also called the "Seven Deadly Sins" | * also called the "cardinal sin" | ||
** cardinal = chief, principal, pivotal | |||
* capital sins are grouped into the "Seven Deadly Sins" | |||
** ''pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth'' | ** ''pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth'' | ||
*** ''acedia'' is often used instead of "sloth", as it more specifically refers to slothfulness in the spirit, not just physical laziness | |||
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|+Seven Deadly Sins | |||
!Sin | |||
!Definition | |||
!Leads to mortal sin... | |||
!Ten Commandments | |||
!Notes | |||
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|'''1. Pride''' | |||
|self-love, absence of humility | |||
|Jesus taught that mortal sin starts in the heart, thus pride may lead to all other sins and to the worst degree | |||
|First, Second | |||
|One of the Three-fold sins | |||
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|'''2. Covetousness''' | |||
|disordered desire for what one does not have or need | |||
|theft, fraud, adultery, | |||
|Ninth, Tenth | |||
|note that "desire" is not inherently bad; we desire food when hungry; but desiring what is not needed, what is not one's own is sinful (see CCC | |||
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|'''3. Lust''' | |||
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|'''4. Anger''' | |||
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|'''5. Gluttony''' | |||
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|'''6. Envy''' | |||
|"sadness at the sight of another's goods" and "immoderate desire" for them [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/608/ (CCC 2539]) | |||
|theft, murder | |||
|Tenth | |||
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* envy "wishes grave harm" upon a neighbor (CCC 2539) | |||
* envy also seeds to joy in another's misfortune (from St. Augustine, CCC 2439) | |||
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|'''7. Sloth''' | |||
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* "capital" because these are the "head" of other sins (i.e., lead to them) | * "capital" because these are the "head" of other sins (i.e., lead to them) | ||
* "deadly" because they lead to death and damnation | * "deadly" because they lead to death and damnation | ||
== | == Mortal sin == | ||
* "mortal" because it separates us from God | * "mortal" because it separates us from God | ||
* [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1john/5?16 1 Jn 5:16]: | * [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1john/5?16 1 Jn 5:16]: | ||