146: The unnamed evil of our times (and how to overcome it) With Fr Chris Pietraszko

Pints With Aquinas · Feb 19, 2019 · 1h 6m

Today I chat with Fr. Chris Pietraszko about the sin of sloth.

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Here's the texts we read:

I answer that, Sloth, according to Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 14) is an oppressive sorrow, which, to wit, so weighs upon man's mind, that he wants to do nothing; thus acid things are also cold. Hence sloth implies a certain weariness of work, as appears from a gloss on Psalm 106:18, "Their soul abhorred all manner of meat," and from the definition of some who say that sloth is a "sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good."

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