New Year

Last Sunday I gave a sermon about the Deadly Sin of Sloth. This sin is essentially an avoidance of the grace that God wants to bestow on the soul. It seems to me that this fault comes from pride and fear. Out of pride I do not want to acknowledge that I need to engage with reality outside of me, that I do not need God. Out of fear I do want to go to the place that God is leading me. Holiness means getting outside of my current place of comfort. Holiness means suffering. The blessedness of the beatitudes strikes fear into my heart. This blessedness means living of a wholly different reality. Yes there is the promise of joy and fulfillment with each beatitude, but Sloth lays on my shoulders as a chain preventing movement towards this blessedness.