Thursday, March 15, 2012

Restless Poison



The affliction, sloth, is dis-spiriting. Thinking Faith continues its series using a film to examine the seven deadly sins. Sloth is the focus of this Fourth Week of Lent. 


Evagrius of Ponticus called it the “noonday devil”; Kathleen Norris described its effect as ‘refusing the gift of each day’; and Lester Burnham (in “American Beauty”) is ‘living just barely.’ Even  Ignatius of Loyola figures in this post by Jesuit Rob Marsh.
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Wiki-image by Hamachidori of Red Chateau used according to CC BY-SA 3.0.

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