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

province of St Joseph. I let's see what do I do. I teach at the Dominican

House of Studies and I work for the domestic Institute and this is Ponce of

Aquinas. In this episode I'd like to talk about the worst sin or the

gravest sin. Why? Well because sins issue from vices. Vices are opposed to virtues. Virtues give rise to good acts, meritorious acts, acts that conduct us unto the life of heaven.

So as it turns out, it's helpful to know a little bit about sin and vice so as to inform our practice

of meritorious deeds and cultivation of virtue, but also like knowing what the worst or the gravest sin is is also just interesting in itself.

So let's get after it.

Here we go.

I'm realizing that this is going to shape up to be a little bit of a tease.

It depends on how the video is entitled, whether it will in fact be a tease.

But I'm going to do my best to be a little bit of a tease here for just a second because I'm not going to tell you what the worst sin is I'm going to set this up

Because I think a lot of people when they ask themselves what's the worst sin or if you're just to grab somebody on the stream be like what is the worst sin? Or if you're just to grab somebody on the stream be like,

what is the worst sin?

They probably say something like murder.

Or at the very least, they choose something that does grave harm to other individuals,

or many other individuals perhaps like genocide

would be yeah like corporate murder of a terrible scale okay so the harm that is done to the other is part of the lot, you know, it's part of

the calculus for evaluating the relative gravity or the relative horribleness of a sin.

So like when it comes to, you know, sins perpetrated against your neighbor, obviously,

you know, like murder is bad.

But the same time as we'll introduce another variable or another thing that's important for our calculus,

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