Late to the party, sorry. I just found this Substack and I'm going through old posts (please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who does that...)
I was surprised you didn't list what my husband and I like to call "rosary envy", or pride induced resentment/friction caused either by feeling less than others or by looking down on others based on how well a given person or family conforms to a subjective Catholic ideal. For example, "Our family does x and y devotions during Lent... but that other family does x,y, AND z", "so-and-so only has three kids...they must not be as open to life as we are" or, "OUR children don't play with barbies, they play with saint peg dolls."
I've unfortunately run into this a fair amount. Sometimes it's caused by a guilty conscience and whatever said thing is, IS something I need to consider. But a lot of times, it's just pride and vainglory masquerading as virtue, and it can really kill charity.
Oh totally! But I think that’s easily chalked up to pride, endemic among all humans. it’s certainly not unique to Christians – and here I will borrow from CS Lewis who points out that everyone experiences pride--the desire to snub other people or the sting when they feel snubbed – but only Christians ever talk about it and struggle against it.
And you are totally not the only person who discovers an author and then reads all their old posts! I love doing that myself and I am so glad you are doing it now!
And as usual, Michael Warren Davis just said things in his Friday post that I wish I could’ve added, including more scripture to back up the above. Plus some saint stories of which I was not previously aware.
Late to the party, sorry. I just found this Substack and I'm going through old posts (please, someone tell me I'm not the only one who does that...)
I was surprised you didn't list what my husband and I like to call "rosary envy", or pride induced resentment/friction caused either by feeling less than others or by looking down on others based on how well a given person or family conforms to a subjective Catholic ideal. For example, "Our family does x and y devotions during Lent... but that other family does x,y, AND z", "so-and-so only has three kids...they must not be as open to life as we are" or, "OUR children don't play with barbies, they play with saint peg dolls."
I've unfortunately run into this a fair amount. Sometimes it's caused by a guilty conscience and whatever said thing is, IS something I need to consider. But a lot of times, it's just pride and vainglory masquerading as virtue, and it can really kill charity.
Oh totally! But I think that’s easily chalked up to pride, endemic among all humans. it’s certainly not unique to Christians – and here I will borrow from CS Lewis who points out that everyone experiences pride--the desire to snub other people or the sting when they feel snubbed – but only Christians ever talk about it and struggle against it.
And you are totally not the only person who discovers an author and then reads all their old posts! I love doing that myself and I am so glad you are doing it now!
And as usual, Michael Warren Davis just said things in his Friday post that I wish I could’ve added, including more scripture to back up the above. Plus some saint stories of which I was not previously aware.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theologoumenalia/p/youre-not-jesus?r=193ba0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web