This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

The theme of our meditation today is the deadly sin of envy and the ways to overcome it.

Envy is a sorrow or sadness. and the ways to overcome it.

Envy is a sorrow or sadness at another's good

and the pleasure at another's misfortune.

Envy is the sadness that someone else is good in the sense that we lament when something goes well for some other person.

So if the success or blessings of your

family member, neighbor, or even competitor displeases you,

it is clear that you suffer from some degree of envy.

But envy is also the pleasure at someone else's misfortune.

We tend to celebrate when something bad happens to another person.

Now, we don't do this explicitly.

So how do we know when we've fallen into envy? Well, we go around and tell everybody.

We say, oh, it's so awful, have you heard? If it's so awful, then why do we get this sinister pleasure of spreading it?

We tear others down to raise ourselves up with an eagerness to spread the word of another's downfall.

That's why we love dirty laundry.

Gora Vidal, the famous novelist said, every time a friend succeeds,

something in me dies. Isn't that disgusting? But that's in us. We have envy, and

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