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Reading young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the 28th day and the ninth month in the year of our Lord, 2024.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rolone on Catholic

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

Today we celebrate the feast day of

St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, who were marty in Japan in the year of our Lord 1637. I'll talk more about

St. Lawrence Ruiz in a minute because his story fits with our lesson today. So let's continue our

series on the phrase virtue stands in the middle.

Hopefully you downloaded our archery target from our training code, which shows that

virtue is the dragon's eye, the center of the target that we're aiming for.

To sin means to miss the mark, and you'll notice 14 slices of pie around that middle target

that get wider the further away from the middle you get.

Seven of those slices are the seven deadly dragons, but each dragon has an opposite extreme

that can also be very deadly, and those are the other seven pieces of pie on the target.

So far we've discussed pride in its opposite extreme of self-contempt, envy and its opposite extreme of idolatry, sloth and its opposite extreme of self-contempt, envy and its opposite extreme of idolatry,

sloth and its opposite extreme of scrupulosity, and greed with its opposite extreme of wastefulness.

Today we turn our attention to the blue dragon of wrath and seek to discover its opposite extreme.

Forgiveness is the virtue that stands in the middle and slays the blue dragon of wrath,

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