WOF 440: Atoning for the Seven Deadly Sins

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Our journey continues through Dante's poetic imagery of the seven deadly sins. As Bishop Barron describes them in order of their severity, we discover that in order to atone for each sin, those in purgatory are punished with the repetitive practice of a countervailing virtue.

Bishop Barron's course, “Dante’s Catholic Imagination,” is timeless and ever-relevant. Watch it in its entirety in the Word on Fire Institute.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. This is Matt Petrucic Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute.
0:15.4	This week we are bringing you the next lecture from Bishop Barron's popular course, Dante's Catholic
0:21.3	Imagination, which is available in its entirety inside the Word on Fire Institute.
0:26.7	We hope you enjoy this deep dive into Dante's Evergreen, always relevant, poetic, moral, and
0:32.1	theological genius.
0:33.3	We are continuing the journey up the seven-story mountain.
0:39.6	We started with the first level where the prideful are purged and now we come to the second of the deadly sins, namely
0:46.7	envy. Now envy, as the medieval master said, is a close daughter of pride. I mean, if you're
0:52.1	preoccupied with yourself yourself well then you're
0:54.0	going to be very interested in how other people are doing. I've always loved
0:59.1	Gore Vidal's definition of envy.
1:03.0	When a friend of mine succeeds, something in me dies.
1:08.0	Super honest, isn't it?
1:10.3	Shows how envy is a daughter of pride.
1:13.0	Well, how are the envious punished in Dante?
1:16.0	It's very interesting.
1:17.0	They're garbed in monastic robes
1:20.0	and think of like the hood that covers the head.
1:23.0	But then their eyelids are sewn shut.
1:26.7	He's thinking here of the way up like a hawk in the middle ages
1:29.6	would have been had his eyelids shut
1:32.0	when it was doing it so, you know, they're playing the sport with them.
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