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There, Sprouts. Today, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, March 12th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Sprouts

podcast, we have been talking about the sin of envy. We have already seen how envy can

make us selfish from the story of the selfish giant, but how pity, meaning

loving someone in their weaknesses and their wounds, is what heals us from the sin of envy.

Now today we are going to take a closer look at exactly how Jesus taught us this from the cross.

Now, to do this, we need to remember a very powerful story. So if you remember, Jesus, of course, was crucified. He walked through

the streets of Jerusalem, carrying the heavy cross. People tormented and spit at him.

When he reached Galgotha, the place where he would be

crucified, he was not crucified alone. Several gospel accounts tell us that, in fact, two other men

were crucified with him, one on each side of him. And the gospel of Luke tells us that they were two thieves. But these two men

were very different in how they saw Jesus and how they spoke to him. In fact, we often refer to

these two thieves as the good thief and the other thief or the bad thief. So today we are going to look at

the bad thief or the thief that did not choose pity. Instead, he chose envy. Now remember,

envy doesn't always mean that I'm going to gossip or I'm going to be jealous.

Chances are the bad thief was not jealous of Jesus.

They were both being crucified.

But he still was very critical of Jesus.

Remember, the goal of envy, the reason why we give into the sin of envy is so that we might feel

better than someone else. We gossip about them so that we feel better about who we are.

We judge someone because we think it makes us seem better and them seem less.

And this is the sin that the bad

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