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Hi, I'm Edwards Sri and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

How do you respond when you're not being treated well?

When someone says something that hurts you with that tone of voice, or you feel like they're always complaining and criticizing you and pointing out all your faults?

Or what about when someone's just not reliable?

They don't do what they say they're going to do. They don't show up when they say they're going to show up how do you

respond to that or when a kid disobeys or a teenager disrespects you or a friend lets you down and turns on

you or you have a certain family member that's pressuring you trying to manipulate you and if you

don't do what they want they're going to guilt you and you. How do you respond when you're not being treated well?

Well, many times when we experience this injustice committed against us, we have this desire to set

things right. We have a desire to stop the injustice. We don't like being treated this way and we want to set things right. Well, that desire within us is related to the passion of anger. And we saw last week how God gave us this passion of anger. Anger is one of the passions. It's neutral. It's neither good nor evil, but God gave it to us and it can be used for good so we can bring greater order and right

ordered relationships and harmony in the world than in our own souls. But we also know from our

experience that if we're not careful, we can allow the anger, the passion of anger to lead us down a

path that isn't helpful that actually makes things worse and causes more harm. Did you know that St. Thomas

Aquinas can help us with this? He actually highlights three ways, three key ways we can tell

our anger is leading us down an unhealthy pathway that will only cause greater harm, greater division,

greater fragmentation. And so are you aware of those three ways? And I think it'll be a

fun examination of conscience if we can together take a look at that and consider the ways that anger can be

used for good. But if we're not careful, how it could lead us astray. And that's what we're going to

take a look at in this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host, Edward

Sri. And we're continuing our look at these

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