Glory to Jesus Christ. I'm Mother Natalia, a Byzantine Catholic nun from Christ the

brideger Monastery and this is Pines with Aquinas. We're continuing on with

our series on the Eight Evil Thoughts brought about by Evagrius, the solitary.

And I'm really, you know, it doesn't do any justice to talk about any of the evil thoughts for five to

ten minutes which is what I'm doing but I also thought that y'all would be pretty

upset with me if this if this lasted for several months instead of several weeks and so I'm trying to cover two of the

eight evil thoughts per day per week.

So last time we talked about gluttony and lust, and today I'm talking about love of money and sadness.

And again, just to give credit words to, almost all of the things that I'm getting from this,

all of the quotes from the fathers and things like that are from the book, Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses

by Dr. Jean-Claude Larshay from the first volume.

And so for love of money, St. Maximus the confessor describes this as the delight in having money, the difficulty in separating from it,

and the pain that one feels when giving it away as a gift.

And like Dr. Larshay, I'm going to include in this evil thought of

love of money, I'm going to include the passion of greed, which is just a little bit broader and is about the

desire to possess goods and to acquire more and more goods and because I think the two are obviously very

related. So St Paul talks about this being idolatry, right? The greedy man being idolatrous. And St. John

Chris system makes the point that if the greedy man, he's talking about the greedy man being idolatrous, and he says if he's not offering sacrifices, material sacrifices in the way that we typically think of idolatry, he's

consecrating much more by expending all of his energy, his power, and his time.

So for his sacrifice in this kind of idolatry,

the greedy man is imm emulating his very soul and that's the danger of it.

And I'd like to tie I think actually love of money and greed tie very well into the last episode into both gluttony and lust because

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