22nd Sunday

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22nd Sunday

• Ordinary Time (C)

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• The danger of self-righteousness

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• St. John of the Cross lists 3 great dangers for
  seemingly good Christians.
• Pride / Self-righteousness
• Sensuality
• Spiritual Avarice

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• Sensuality It goes together with anger,
  detraction, or a sexual sin.
• Spiritual Avarice constantly craving of hearing
  counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, and
  reading books about them. However, their life of
  virtue is still wanting. Its goes together with
  Spiritual Envy.

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Pride / Self-righteousness

• - Over-confidence of ones goodness leading to
  disrespect of others
• - Pharisaism
• - Easily getting angry at less fervent
  Christians.
• Lives a good moral life even very generous.
• Never see their own faults.
• Blame others for their problems.
• Not honest with themselves.
• Lack of genuine love for others.

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• Pride lurks in every mans heart, and the desire
  to be favored over others is always a temptation.
• And so the Lord during this Sunday is reminding
  us to be HUMBLE in every way.

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• Let us be reminded of these things
• We are all unworthy in front of God.
• No one can claim a right to receive grace /
  favors from God.
• If you wish to find favor with God, you must be
  poor, small, and lowly.

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• Our life of faith is indeed a paradox.
• To be first, we must be the last.
• To be the greatest, we must be the least (in the
  eyes of men).
• To be mature in faith, we must be like little
  children.
• To be exalted, we must humble.