Greed - The Sin of Excessive Preoccupation
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Holy Family School of Faith. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to our Rosedary Meditation. |
| 0:07.4 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:10.3 | Amen. |
| 0:10.9 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we reach the deadly sin of greed. |
| 0:18.0 | Greed is the sin of excessive preoccupation with money and the stuff money can get you or the things money can |
| 0:27.0 | enable you to do. |
| 0:29.2 | Money and the things money afford us are external goods, which are real goods, so there is an appropriate place for |
| 0:36.4 | money and for private property and the means to do things. With greed, we are speaking about an excessive preoccupation with money and that |
| 0:46.1 | things money can buy. |
| 0:47.7 | Material things, travel, education, a certain level of safety and security and comfort, |
| 0:54.0 | access to things not everyone has. |
| 0:58.0 | Greed is not the desire to be rich. |
| 1:02.0 | Greed is the undue anxiety over money. Therefore you can be |
| 1:07.6 | rich or poor and suffer from greed since it's a preoccupation with money. How do we measure our level of greed? |
| 1:17.0 | Usually by anxiety. Our Lord connects anxiety to greed. |
| 1:24.0 | When Jesus said, |
| 1:25.0 | I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, |
| 1:29.0 | nor about your body, and how you are to clothe it. |
| 1:32.0 | Surely life means more than food and the body more than clothing. |
| 1:36.0 | Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sew or reap or gather into barns. |
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