七種原罪之一? 樹賴? sloth - 生態環境討論

Hardy avatar
By Hardy
at 2002-09-30T21:41

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Sloth
One of the seven capital sins. In general it means disinclination to labour
or exertion. As a capital or deadly vice St. Thomas (II-II:35) calls it
sadness in the face of some spiritual good which one has to achieve (Tristitia
de bono spirituali). Father Rickaby aptly translates its Latin equivalent
acedia (Gr. akedia) by saying that it means the don't-care feeling. A man
apprehends the practice of virtue to be beset with difficulties and chafes
under the restraints imposed by the service of God. The narrow way stretches
wearily before him and his soul grows sluggish and torpid at the thought of
the painful life journey. The idea of right living inspires not joy but
disgust, because of its laboriousness. This is the notion commonly obtaining,
and in this sense sloth is not a specific vice according to the teaching of St.
Thomas, but rather a circumstance of all vices. Ordinarily it will not have
the malice of mortal sin unless, of course, we conceive it to be so utter that
because of it one is willing to bid defiance to some serious obligation. St.
Thomas completes his definition of sloth by saying that it is torpor in the
presence of spiritual good which is Divine good. In other words, a man is
then formally distressed at the prospect of what he must do for God to bring
about or keep intact his friendship with God. In this sense sloth is directly
opposedto charity. It is then a mortal sin unless the act be lacking in entire
advertence or full consent of the will. The trouble attached to maintenance of
the inhabiting of God by charity arouses tedium in such a person. He violates,
therefore, expressly the first and the greatest
of the commandments: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart,
and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength.
" (Mark, xii, 30).

JOSEPH F. DELANY
Transcribed by Paul T. Crowley
Dedicated to the Sacred Heart
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Sloth is only the sin of us mortal.
But for sloth,it's a virtue.

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少吹冷氣 少吃肉 少騎車 節省用電
請保護大自然....
Love on Nature, mother of all.
生態保育網頁
http://www.ran.org/
http://www.savebiogems.org/

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