Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

One of the things that I think every single one of us experiences is we experience temptation.

Obviously that's kind of like a no brainer, right?

But what we don't always experience is wisdom in the face of temptation.

What do you do in the face of temptation?

There's a number of options.

There is this ancient Greek myth of the sirens.

And who are the sirens?

The sirens were these two half bird, half women type creatures.

They were ugly, they were hideous.

They were monsters, essentially, who would lure men to their deaths.

Like why would these men be lured to their deaths by monsters?

Well, the sirens would sing and they would sing this beautiful sounding music that when

men here heard this, they would look at the sirens and their sirens appearance would

change from being monsters to being incredibly beautiful and incredibly attractive.

And so these men would throw their lives away on this illusory beauty, right?

They would throw their lives away on evil passing itself off as something good.

And this is exactly what we experience when it comes to sin.

Every single one of us, we experience the temptation to sin, like to gossip.

What passes itself off is connection.

To loss it passes itself off is love.

To greed it passes itself off is like here's what I'm, here's what I'm owed or here's

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