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🗓️ 23 May 2019
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Perhaps you’ve felt the temptation to be a cookie-cutter Catholic, one who does all the Catholic things that other Catholics are doing because they think … well … that’s what makes us Catholic. But comparison is kind of like the cousin of envy, Fr. Mike says. If we only express our faith in certain ways because that’s what other believers around us our doing, we should re-examine our relationship with Christ. After all, he is the only one we should pattern our life after.
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0:00.0 | How are my names father Mike Schmidt and this is a sentient |
0:08.0 | Presents so one of the things people will come to me and ask about actually not only come to me |
0:12.8 | In fact, this is one of those things that people don't come to me about because they're so embarrassed about it and it's the idea of comparison |
0:19.4 | People will compare themselves to each other and they won't actually admit it to others until I get to such a point where it's like oh my gosh |
0:26.9 | Everyone's comparing themselves to each other. It's the worst thing in the world |
0:29.8 | I'm like, oh okay now you finally came and talked to me about this |
0:33.0 | We could have resolved this really really a lot earlier when if you would have said father |
0:38.5 | I'm starting to compare myself to other people and I would say stop it |
0:43.6 | Problem solved |
0:45.1 | That's what this whole video is gonna be about you comparing yourself stop it |
0:49.4 | If you want to just jump to the end you don't even have to hear the rest of this because you know what you hear me say when it comes to comparison |
0:56.2 | Stop it. Okay. There you go. There's the lesson |
1:00.5 | Why because comparison goes |
1:02.7 | Experses the worst in fact, I think it was Aristotle who once said comparisons are odious that just |
1:09.9 | They stink they're awful. They don't actually make you happy for a moment in fact comparison |
1:15.4 | It's kind of related to envy in that way. Maybe we've heard it said in the past that |
1:21.2 | All other sins we choose they make us feel happy for at least a moment |
1:25.5 | I think about any sin that you and I might happen to choose |
1:29.3 | Every one of them makes us happy for even just a second |
1:34.4 | Envy doesn't make us happy ever |
1:37.1 | From the moment you're envious until you hold on to it until the day you stopping envious |
1:41.9 | It didn't make you happy. It didn't give you any joy |
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