Sneaky Ways to Be Prideful (and How to Stop)
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
"I don't... think... I'm prideful...?"
Great! If you examine your actions and intentions and you don't detect any obvious pride, that's a wonderful thing. But as each one of us grows deeper in relationship with Jesus, he will reveal ever more nuanced ways that pride can sneak its way into our lives, giving us opportunities to reveal those places to Jesus and letting him perfect us.
Today, Fr. Mike uncovers some of those sneaky areas of our life where pride can burrow itself and cause major problems.
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| 0:00.0 | And the fourth is, what is it? |
| 0:05.0 | Ambition. |
| 0:07.0 | What's a better word? |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know what a better word is right now. |
| 0:10.0 | Because I'm out of words, because I can't make videos anymore. |
| 0:16.0 | You ready? |
| 0:17.0 | What am I going to talk about? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh my gosh. Hi my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension presents. |
| 0:20.0 | Sometimes we can think like, well no, |
| 0:22.0 | I'm not really prideful at all so here's this not |
| 0:24.3 | plagiarism I'm citing my source it is Donald DeMarco this article on on pride he |
| 0:29.0 | identifies four ways that pride kind of can rear its ugly head. He talks about |
| 0:33.2 | on boastfulness, he talks about hypocrisy, he talks about ostentation, and talks about |
| 0:38.8 | ambition. We realize that ostentation in the sense of like you know having nice |
| 0:42.4 | things or being perceived in a in a decent way |
| 0:45.6 | it's not automatically the most horrible thing also when it comes to ambition not all ambition is bad |
| 0:51.6 | but there are ways that all these can get twisted and they can become |
| 0:55.8 | an aspect of our lives that we don't want them to become because they can be a |
| 0:59.6 | ways in which pride, once again, rears its head. So what are these again? |
| 1:03.6 | Bostfulness, ostentation, hypocrisy, and ambition. |
| 1:07.2 | So he addresses this and says, okay, here's the solution for all of them. |
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