The Seven Deadly Sins Expounded.
Q. HOW call you the seven deadly, or capital sins?
A. Pride, covetousness, lechery, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
A. Pride, covetousness, lechery, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
Q. What is pride?
A. It is an inordinate desire of our own excellency or esteem.
A. It is an inordinate desire of our own excellency or esteem.
Q. Why is pride called a capital sin?
A. Because it is the head or fountain of many other sins.
A. Because it is the head or fountain of many other sins.
Q. What for example?
A. Vain-glory, boasting, hypocrisy, ambition, arrogance, presumption, and contempt of others.
A. Vain-glory, boasting, hypocrisy, ambition, arrogance, presumption, and contempt of others.
Q. What is vain-glory?
A. And inordinate desire of human praise.
A. And inordinate desire of human praise.
Q. What is boasting?
A. A foolish bragging of ourselves.
A. A foolish bragging of ourselves.
Q. What is hypocrisy?
A. Counterfeiting of more piety and virtue than we have.
A. Counterfeiting of more piety and virtue than we have.
Q. What is ambition?
A. An inordinate desire of honour.
A. An inordinate desire of honour.
Q. What is arrogance?
A. A high contempt of others, joined with insolence and rashness.
A. A high contempt of others, joined with insolence and rashness.
Q. What is presumption?
A. An attempting of things above our strength.
A. An attempting of things above our strength.
Q. What is contempt of others?
A. A disdainful preferring ourselves before others.
A. A disdainful preferring ourselves before others.
Q. What other daughters hath pride?
A. Pertinency, discord, disobedience, and ingratitude.
A. Pertinency, discord, disobedience, and ingratitude.
Q. What is pertinency?
A. A willful sticking to our own opinions, contrary to the judgment of our betters.
A. A willful sticking to our own opinions, contrary to the judgment of our betters.
Q. What is discord?
A. A wrangling in words, with such as we ought to assent and yield unto.
A. A wrangling in words, with such as we ought to assent and yield unto.
Q. What is disobedience?
A. An opposition to the will or commands of parents and superiors.
A. An opposition to the will or commands of parents and superiors.
Q. What is ingratitude?
A. A forgetting or neglecting of benefits.
A. A forgetting or neglecting of benefits.
Q. How prove you pride to be a mortal sin?
A. Because we read, that "God resists the proud, and gives this grace to the humble." 1 Pet. v. 5. And "pride is odious before God and men." Eccl. x. 7.
A. Because we read, that "God resists the proud, and gives this grace to the humble." 1 Pet. v. 5. And "pride is odious before God and men." Eccl. x. 7.
Q. What are the remedies of pride?
A. To remember that holy lesson of Christ, "learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart." Matt. xi. 29. And to consider that we are sinful dust and shall return again to dust; and that whatsoever good we have to do, is the free gift of God.
A. To remember that holy lesson of Christ, "learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart." Matt. xi. 29. And to consider that we are sinful dust and shall return again to dust; and that whatsoever good we have to do, is the free gift of God.
Q. What is the virtue opposite to pride?
A. Humility, which teaches us a lowly opinion of ourselves. "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Matt. xxiii. 12.
A. Humility, which teaches us a lowly opinion of ourselves. "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Matt. xxiii. 12.
Next - The Douai Catechism, 1649 - CHAPTER XVIII. Covetousness Expounded.
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