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Today is Tuesday, March 8th, 2022.

Today is also the feast day of a great Portuguese saint, St. John of God.

Now, this week we are talking about the sin of envy.

And yesterday we spoke about how envy kills love because it is jealousy. When someone close to us has something good happened, we feel rotten.

And when somebody has something rotten happened to them, we feel good, right? It's this really

nasty, warped way of seeing the world where we focus on ourselves and not on each other.

Now, today we're going to talk about examples of envy and the horrible things that they led to that we see in the Bible.

So the first one, this really clear example of envy happened right when Christ was born.

So remember, Christ was born in Bethlehem and the three wise men were traveling to see him.

But first they stop and they see Herod.

Of course, they tell Herod and Herod says, oh, come and tell me so I can go and worship. But was he really

planning to go and worship the newborn king of the Jews? Of course not. He was planning to go there

and kill him. Now, why? Why would Herod care so much to kill a tiny baby, right? It's envy. Herod worried that the Messiah, right,

that he would come and take his earthly kingdom away from him. Remember, the way that the

Jews thought the Messiah would come is that he would come, he would lead this big army,

kind of like King David, and that he would come, he would lead this big army, kind of like King David,

and that he would overthrow the people that were oppressing the Jews, namely the Romans.

So Herod thought that this baby, whoever it was, that he would grow up and be a military

leader and kick him out of power. So he was envious, And what did he end up doing? Right? He ended up going

into Bethlehem and killing many, many baby boys, horrible, just because he thought this good thing

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