Posted on 10/26/2010 8:34:56 AM PDT by Salvation
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Those sins to which man's fallen nature is mainly inclined and that are, as a result, the source of all other human failings. The name "capital" does not mean that they are necessarily the gravest sins. They are leading tendencies toward sin and are seven in number: pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, and sloth. Theology justifies the number by pointing to the goods that human nature seeks to attain or the evils it wants to avoid. The goods desired and the evils disliked can be material or spiritual, and either real or imaginary. Thus, pride and vainglory come from wanting to be held in high honor and glory, and from wanting to be held in high honor and glory, and from preening oneself in the imagination. Gluttony comes from individual high living, lust from sexuality inborn to preserve the race, and avarice from the gathering of wealth. The repulsions are about good things wrongfully regarded as threatening our own proper good and that therefore are grieved over or actively combatted. Spiritually values menace our physical pleasure and ease, hence sloth or boredom about spiritual values. Envy is much the same; it resents another's good qualities because they may lower our own self-esteem. To flare out at others is anger. (Etym. Latin capitalis, principal, acting in the manner of a head.)
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Capital Sin |
Definition |
Contrary Virtue |
| Pride |
Unrestrained appreciation of our own worth |
Humility |
| Greed |
Immoderate desire for earthly goods |
Liberality |
| Lust |
Hankering for impure pleasures |
Chastity |
| Anger |
Inordinate desire for revenge |
Meekness |
| Gluttony |
Unrestrained use of food and drink |
Temperance |
| Envy |
Sorrow over another's good fortune |
Brotherly Love |
| Sloth |
Laxity in keeping the Faith and the practice of virtue |
Diligence |
Note:
The 7 Capital Sins, also known as "The 7 Deadly Sins," are those sins that give rise to other sins. They were first enumerated by Pope St. Gregory the Great in "Moralia in Job."
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Calvinism/Armianism |
Aseity |
Humanism |
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Murder |
Luna |
Meta-Ousiosis |
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Renunciation |
I. H. S. |
Peace of the Church |
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Bilocation |
Marriage Bond |
Epikeia |
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Scapular Medal |
Clandestinity |
Donatism |
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Sign |
Altar Bread |
Curse |
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Chrismation |
Religious State |
Clerics of the Pontifical Chapel |
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Nehemiah |
Age of Discretion |
Formal Cause |
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Monarchianism |
Longinus |
Giants |
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Born Again |
Christians in Israel |
Liturgy of the Hours |
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Chantry Schools |
Allegorical Sense |
Ruthenian Rite |
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Sarum Rite |
Gorgias |
Aureole |
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Hospitalers |
Epistle to Titus |
Ars Antiqua |
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Matrimonii Sacramentum |
Christian Names |
Church Militant |
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Capital Sins |
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Thanks for bolding.
I'm not an expert, but I think it's apparent that the weaknesses we succumb to are defects ("faults") of our inherent created goodness that have been exploited by sin. In other words, a sin is rooted in a pervesion of a good. Example: anger is often rooted in a sense of justice that has been incorrectly understood and acted upon.
Knowing this is useful -- essential, I'd say -- to avoid the sin.
It definitely serves to help us know ourselves better, doesn’t it?
Yeah. And it marvels me, the more I do that, that God so love the world...
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