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Today is Wednesday, March 11th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are talking about the sin of envy and what we should be doing instead, which is pity. Now, I think both of these words can be hard to understand.

Envy and pity.

So today we're simply going to try to understand them better.

So first of all, the sin of envy.

Now, this is simply when we feel sad. We feel sad when someone else gets something good

or when we feel happy when something bad happens to someone else. Now, this might seem totally

strange and maybe you're thinking, well, I've never done that, but I bet you have. Now,

imagine that you're in school and you're taking a spelling test. Let's imagine that you didn't

really study. You don't get a very good grade. Oh, you feel pretty rotten, right? But then

you look to the side and you should see that the person next to you did even worse.

How does that make you feel?

Well, if we're being completely honest, it probably makes you feel good, right?

Oh, well, I don't feel so bad about myself anymore.

They did worse.

Well, that is not a very holy way to respond. And this is a very simple example of envy.

Now, the same is true. Let's say we take this spelling test and we thought, oh, I did pretty good.

I only got too wrong. Then we looked to the other side and we see that someone got a hundred percent.

Well, then I feel terrible because they did better than I did. So those are two

examples of how we can feel envy all the time. And envy can make us do some pretty ugly things.

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