You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for March 16th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are talking about the sin of pride, which in a big way is the sin that makes all other

sins possible.

When I think, I know better than God, I'm better than these other people, then we can disregard God's law and we can do all sorts of terrible sins that break or wound the

relationship that we have with God.

We talked yesterday about all the examples that Jesus offers us in the gospel of true

humility, from his birth to washing feet at the last supper and to his death.

Now, we're going to focus on one of the things that Jesus says, well, he is on the cross,

and we're going to examine through the help of venerable Fulton Sheen,

we're going to examine the lessons that Jesus offers us through this simple phrase

as we struggle with our own sins of pride.

So in Matthew's Gospel, right before Jesus dies, he says,

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Those are hard words to hear.

I think they really help us understand the true agony that Jesus was suffering.

Now, a few things you need to know. This line comes from a psalm. Jesus is actually praying when he says these words.

These are the first words of a longer song of lamentation, which is found in the Bible.

And this is likely a prayer that Jesus knew by heart that he would have said often.

So he's praying.

But these words also help us understand what it is like to live, to really totally live based, you know, engulfed in the sin of pride.

Remember, the sin of pride is believing that I don't need God, right? I don't need God. I don't

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