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Publié par	St. Benedict Press LLC
Date de parution	23 septembre 2022
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EAN13	9781505129960
Langue	English

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THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS
“Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you, and confirm you, and establish you. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.”
—1 Peter 5:8-11
THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS
“The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away.”
—Matthew 11:12
“That in all things God may be glorified.” —Holy Rule of St. Benedict
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina
Nihil Obstat:

William J. Blacet, J.C.L. Censor Librorum
Imprimatur:
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John P. Cody, S.T.D. Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph July 16, 1959
Originally published in 1959 by the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration, Clyde, Missouri.
Retypeset and republished in 2000 by TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC.
Library of Congress Control No.: 00-134502
ISBN 978-0-89555-679-0
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina 2017
“True understanding of the nature and effects of the Capital Sins is the first step in combating them. Let us take up arms now and go to the battle! We will be what we will to be!”
( Pages 46-47 )
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Seven Capital Sins
1. Pride
2. Covetousness or Avarice
3. Lust
4. Anger
5. Envy
6. Gluttony
7. Sloth
8. The Seven Roots of Sin
9. Jesus, Our Model
Prayers
My Resolution for Today
I resolve this day:
To do all in my power to resist evil and to do good.
To fulfill all the responsibilities of my state in life faithfully.
To observe kindness and honesty in all contacts with my fellowmen.
To preserve complete purity of soul.
If I should be tempted to evil, I will repeat in my heart the words, “Do what is right; Be right; Be cheerful!”
That I may be able to keep this resolution, I ask the help of God, my Creator.
Introduction
The Seven Capital Sins
T HERE is a seven-headed monster that each one of us has to fight our whole life through. This monster is SELF-SEEKING or SELF-LOVE. Its seven heads are: Pride , Covetousness , Lust , Anger , Envy , Gluttony and Sloth . Bishop Fulton Sheen calls them “the seven pall-bearers of the soul” and gives them the following names: Self-love, inordinate love of money, illicit sex, hate, jealousy, over-indulgence and laziness. ( “Peace of Soul,” p. 109).
As a result of Original Sin, each one of us has an inborn tendency to assert himself, to make himself the “center” of things, to make his will prevail over that of others. Our great passion is for our highest good, but too often we do not comprehend what this good is, and we seek for it in a wrong way. We need to understand that our highest good is GOD. God has made Himself our last End and Reward. He has shown us the way to Himself through Christ, who called Himself “The Way.”
We must recognize our relationship to God as creatures who have the duty to love and serve Him in the manner He wills and desires , in order that we may possess Him in Heaven, or “save our souls,” as we commonly express it. Now, when we are wrapped up in our own ego , even though we may not realize the fact, everything we think, say and do revolves around our own self . We are really “seeking self,” though we may try to convince ourselves that we are following Christ and seeking God.
Plainly, then, the battle against self-seeking is fought within our own personality . Specifically, it is in our will . In the fountainhead of self-love and self-will, pride and all the other Capital Sins have their origin and bring forth a host of offspring, great and small. If we are strongly motivated by self-seeking, we will seldom “deny” ourselves, as Our Lord taught, by charity, love, sacrifice, humility, obedience, patience, generosity, or whatever the calls of duty and virtue may be. Instead, our self-love will nourish the vices and we will become more and more ensnared in them.
To pursue the path of self-love is continually to refuse love to God, and such a course is a great danger to salvation. No soul can enter Heaven until it has been purged of all self-love and self-will and exists only for God; that is to say, until it is sanctified . Probably for most persons who are saved, a great part of this purging has to be done in Purgatory, because the soul did not do it on earth. But should a soul—or, to be personal—should we reject the will of God for our own self-will and self-love even until death, God would be forced to reject us for all eternity, because we had rejected Him. Such a rejection means eternal damnation. Our state would then be unchangeably fixed in self-love and hatred of God, and in Hell we would simply be a “mad center unto ourself “—an ego which must endure without end the unendurable, the unceasing torture of being drawn toward God, and yet being walled-up in its own eternally hate-filled self.
A knowledge of the myriad disguises in which the Seven Capital Sins mask themselves can enable us to come to self-knowledge and help us carry on a successful warfare by practicing the opposite virtues. It is impossible for us to combat an enemy whom we do not know, whom we do not see, or whom, perhaps, we mistake for a friend. Yet often this is actually the case with these vices, especially with pride and sloth.
It is the purpose of this booklet to give some insight into the nature of the Capital Sins, at least naming some of the manifold actions which have their root in a particular vice. This knowledge of the character , degrees , acts and family relationships of the seven vices will, we hope, be helpful to those who find it hard to examine themselves in their regard, since examinations of conscience often give only the names of the Capital Sins.
An early writer, in keeping with the spirit of his time, brings home the viciousness of the Capital Sins by depicting them under the forms of animals.

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