3 Signs We Struggle with Pride

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What are the classic signs that we struggle with the sin of pride? Drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Sri breaks down three ways we can subtly fall into pride and emphasizes the importance of acknowledging our dependence on God and His grace.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts,
0:05.6	videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.
0:12.1	Hi, I'm Edwards Sari, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:24.3	Today I want to talk about a certain human weakness that we all struggle with, but we may
0:29.3	not fully realize how much it has a hold on us.
0:32.2	I want to talk about the vice of pride.
0:34.8	Now, we may admit, oh, I struggle with pride.
0:37.1	I can be prideful. Oh, I'm so proud. We might
0:39.4	even joke about it a bit. But do we realize how much it affects everything in our lives when we
0:46.0	struggle with pride? It affects our marriages, our ability to enter into a deep union that God wants
0:52.0	us to have with our spouse. It impacts our kids,
0:55.1	preventing us from being the parents. God wants us to be for them. It affects our friendships.
1:00.5	It affects our ability to navigate conflict within community. It even affects our relationship
1:06.1	with God. What exactly is the vice of pride? And what are some of the classic signs that I might be
1:13.4	struggling with pride in a certain way? And most of all, how can I find greater freedom and
1:18.3	healing from this vice? That's what we're going to take a look at in this week's podcast.
1:22.6	So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, Edwards III. And we've been looking at the virtue of temperance, one of the four cardinal virtues, the virtue of self-control.
1:33.0	And last week we talked about how important it is that we moderate our attraction to pleasure, especially the pleasure around food.
1:39.6	We looked at the vice of gluttony.
1:41.0	We could also consider our attraction to the pleasures in drink and consider
1:45.0	the vice of drunkenness or our attraction to the pleasure of sex and the vice of lust. But today,
1:52.4	I want to highlight something St. Thomas Aquinas brings out in his magnificent writings on the
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