Frank, please… St Augstine says “Hatred is lasting Anger” He also says that we are permitted to be angy at a person’s sin but not at the person themself.
People who commit sin deserve the most compassion out of anyone because they are spiritually wounding themselves.
“… news but not with that anger.”
W.H.Auden wrote a great little essay on “Anger” that appeared in the 1962 edition of “The Seven Deadly Sins.” He clarifies that “natural, or reflex, anger is the necessary reaction of a creature when its survival is threatened by an attack and it cannot save itself by flight…. It is the response to a real situation of threat and danger, and as soon as the threat is removed, the anger subsides.”
Auden then points out: “Anger as a sin is either futile (the situation should not be changed and must be accepted) or unnecessary (the situation could be mastered as well or better without it). Anger as a sin is about threats to our ego, pride, and self-importance, not about a real threat or danger to our lives, our Faith, our souls.
If LeoChurch promises to be a spinoff of FrancisChurch, real Catholics are in real peril. Therefore, it’s only natural to resent and become irate as more and more creepy, rather scandalous, stuff is coming out about our new pope. In fact, not to react strongly could make us into cowards, or if one wants to cite another deadly sin, guilty of sloth.
Frank, please… St Augstine says “Hatred is lasting Anger” He also says that we are permitted to be angy at a person’s sin but not at the person themself.
People who commit sin deserve the most compassion out of anyone because they are spiritually wounding themselves.
Please, news but not with that anger…
In the Lord Jesus,
Joe
“… news but not with that anger.”
W.H.Auden wrote a great little essay on “Anger” that appeared in the 1962 edition of “The Seven Deadly Sins.” He clarifies that “natural, or reflex, anger is the necessary reaction of a creature when its survival is threatened by an attack and it cannot save itself by flight…. It is the response to a real situation of threat and danger, and as soon as the threat is removed, the anger subsides.”
Auden then points out: “Anger as a sin is either futile (the situation should not be changed and must be accepted) or unnecessary (the situation could be mastered as well or better without it). Anger as a sin is about threats to our ego, pride, and self-importance, not about a real threat or danger to our lives, our Faith, our souls.
If LeoChurch promises to be a spinoff of FrancisChurch, real Catholics are in real peril. Therefore, it’s only natural to resent and become irate as more and more creepy, rather scandalous, stuff is coming out about our new pope. In fact, not to react strongly could make us into cowards, or if one wants to cite another deadly sin, guilty of sloth.