Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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

So we've been meditating on each of the commandments.

And now we come to the 10th and the final commandment

that forbids the sin of envy.

The sin of being sorry at what someone else has of wanting to take what your brother

has.

The Catechism says that envy leads to the worst sins. It was envy. Think

of the worst sins. It was envy that fueled the first murder of human history

when Cain killed Abel out of envy.

And of the seven deadly sins

envy is the one most clearly associated with Satan.

The book of wisdom says it was through the Devil's envy that death entered the world.

And the Book of Isaiah presents Satan as wanting what belonged to God,

the very throne of God, and Satan himself tries to get Jesus to give

him the worship that belongs to God alone. Again, Satan seems to be eaten up by envy, and he infects Adam and Eve with this envy

when he promises them that they'll be like God. And really, of all the other

sins, only envy hates the good, the good of my brother.

Only envy rejoices at evil, the evil that befalls my brother.

There's a sense in which of all the sins envy gets the closest to real

malice. If that's not diabolical, then what is? But surprisingly, envy comes from a very understandable

but surprising source. A source we can pretty much all sympathize with. It comes from insecurity.

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