Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St.

Joseph and this is Pines with Aquinas.

In this episode, I thought that we could talk about the vice of envy.

Why?

Well, because it's a capital vice, sometimes called the Seven Deadly Sins, and it threatens

to undermine our spiritual good in a particularly potent way.

So it's one of those vices from which other vices issue.

But also because, I mean, just speaking simply, practically, it's something that many of

us struggle with and there are ways that we can seek to cultivate the virtues which

help us to heal and to grow beyond it.

So let's think about it in those terms.

Here we go.

Okay, so what is envy?

Well, when we talk about envy, we're talking about a vice and when we talk about a vice,

we're talking about like a stable disposition, a kind of habit of mind or heart, which fixes

us in what is evil.

Okay, not in the sense that it makes you evil, but it gives you a kind of inclination towards

what is evil, all right, and there can be sins which issue from that vice because we're

in the habit of doing it.

So envy would be both a sin and a kind of habit.

So what is it opposed to or what is it working against in our spiritual life?

At the same time, it says that it's working against charity, which is to say love.

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