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Greetings young Squires Spruits.

Today's the seventh day in the ninth month and the year of our Lord

2024.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rowan on

Catholic Sprouts where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

Today we continue our series on the phrase

Virtu Stott and Media, which is Latin for Virtue stands in the middle. In this series, we're

once again going through the seven deadly dragons, but this time we're looking at the opposite

and no less deadly sins that these dragons tempt us to. Remember the image we're using for this

series is the

archery target with the dragon's eye or the bull's eye in the center of the target. On our dragon slayer's

archery target, there's 14 pieces of pie. Seven of those pie pieces represent the seven deadly

dragons, and the pieces on the opposite side of the pie represent their opposite extreme.

Virtue lies in the middle of those two extremes.

A pie is cut in triangular pieces with the widest part at the outside and the narrow sliver on the inside.

This corresponds to how Jesus said the path is wide that leads to destruction and many find it,

and the way is narrow that leads to life and few find it. If we want to hit the dragon's eye in the middle of the target where all virtue comes together in our ideal life,

then we must practice, practice, practice. Our aim must be true and good and beautiful.

To miss the mark is an archery term called sin, and the further away from the middle of the target we are, the more we get wounded by dragons.

Last week, we started with the Red Dragon of Pride. We talked about how the opposite extreme of pride of that Red Dragon can deceive us is false humility or self-loathing.

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