This is Holy Family School of Faith.

Welcome to our rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Temperance keeps us from doing what is wrong, sinning, even when we have strong feelings for it.

There are seven root sins from which all sin stems, thus they are called the capital or deadly sins. We will take the first

today, pride, and its conquering virtue, humility.

Our goal is to see oneself accurately, realistically, according to reality,

to understand the correct place we have in relation to God and to others.

The deadly sin of pride is to lose sight of your relative place in the grand scheme of things. Pride is to have an unrealistic estimation of oneself. On one hand, you can think

too highly of yourself, be egotistic, arrogant, conceited, or above oneself, an excessive self-assertion.

But on the other hand, you can think too little of yourself and be timid with an excessive

self-consciousness.

The following list compiled by St. Josea Maria Escriva is a good criteria for locating your

dominant form of pride.

Thinking that what you do or say is better than what others do or say, always wanting

to get your own way, arguinging when you're not right.

Arguing when you are right but with bad manners or insisting stubbornly.

Giving your opinion without being asked, when charity does not demand you do so, despising the point of view of others, not being aware that all the gifts and qualities you have

are on loan from God, not acknowledging that you are unworthy of all honor or esteem,

even the ground you are treading on or the things you own, mentioning yourself as an example

in conversation, or, on the other hand, speaking badly about

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