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Feb 26, 2024 · Ingratitude toward God is not so much a cause of evil as the result of it. Once we have hardened our hearts to the point that we no longer see God as the source of our gifts, nothing is off-limits. We become a law unto ourselves.
The Sin of Ingratitude. A question recently came to the editor’s desk about the fact that St. Ignatius believed ingratitude to be “the cause, beginning, and origin of all evils and sins.”. The quote is from a letter dated March 18, 1542, cited in this helpful article on gratitude by Brian J. Lehane, SJ. Fr. Lehane writes: Perhaps God ...
Nov 28, 2012 · The reason is that it detracts from our own glory, and all people by nature love their own glory more than the glory of God. At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one’s own greatness. For genuine gratitude admits that we are beneficiaries of an unearned bequest. We are cripples leaning on the cross-shaped crutch of Jesus Christ.
Jun 27, 2015 · That’s a lot of bad crammed into a few verses! And “unthankful” is hanging out right next to “unholy”, which is a pretty bad one, so you can’t argue that this list is all “minor” sins. The other verse specifically using the word “unthankful” occurs in Luke 6:35 where Jesus is instructing His disciples on being good to their ...
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Our greed says to God, “You do not provide enough. I want more. I deserve more.” Throughout the scriptures, God faithfully provides for the needs of his people. It pleased God, for example, to give great wealth to Job and to Abraham. To others, like Elijah in his cave, it served God to provide just what was needed in the moment (1 Kings 19:6-8). In...
Greed certainly undergirds the sin of gluttony. Usually referring to a habitual excess of eating and drinking, gluttony can also be over-self-indulgence in other areas. Ingratitude is both the seed and fruit of gluttony. More than simply having “eyes bigger than your stomach” at a holiday dinner table, gluttony demands more than is needed; it canno...
Sexual intimacy is one of those good gifts. Created as sexual beings, most humans from their early teens into late adulthood yearn for the physical, emotional, and spiritual intimacy of sexual relationship. God blesses the full expression of this desire inside the boundaries of marriage, where his gift of sex is safe and satisfying. In Solomon’s So...
Thanksgiving combats the sins of ingratitude. Take greed as an example. In the western world, God blesses many with plenty. When we receive this plenty with thankfulness, God frees us to be more generous, to give away from what we have been given. Like the Psalmist, we acknowledge our total dependence on God, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have...
May 5, 2023 · The Burden of Being Ungrateful. When we forget to give thanks for the blessings in our lives, we allow our troubles to define us. There’s a story my father tells from his childhood about a girl in his fifth grade class who he desperately wanted to impress. The girl had a numbered list of the boys in her class, ranking them based on who she ...
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Objection 1. It seems that ingratitude is always a mortal sin. For one ought to be grateful to God above all. But one is not ungrateful to God by committing a venial sin: else every man would be guilty of ingratitude. Therefore no ingratitude is a venial sin. Objection 2.
