Notes of the meeting of theological 19/03/2010
with Don Cesare Pagazzano
Vices and Virtues : Greed
The deadly sin that is treated in this meeting is that of ' avarice .
This sin is linked to other fragility also is a vice that you can easily charge others, perhaps in contrast to the throat, or acedia.
St. Paul defines greed as "the root of all evil."
miser enough to know that they have such a thing and that it welcomes and satisfies: not interested in the true purpose of the object, or its usefulness, but only to possession.
In this meeting to better understand this vice, include the short story "The Woman and the onion" the novel " The Brothers Karamazov "of Fyodor Dostoevsky Michailovic which we quote below:
" There was once a bad bad woman who died without leaving behind all the football action virtuous. The Devils grabbed her and threw her into a lake of fire. But his guardian angel was there and thought of as his virtuous action I can remember the words of God? He remembered one and said to God - He uprooted an onion garden and gave it to a beggar. And God said to him - thus takes the same onion, Tendil to her in the lake, which clings to it and holds it close, and if you'll pull out of the lake, go to heaven, but if you rip the onion, the woman remains where is it now. The angel rides with the woman, held out the onion: - On woman said to her, and keep attached. He began to pull cautiously and had almost pulled out, but others who were sinners in the lake when they saw that they drew out, everyone began to cling to her, also to be taken out. But the woman was ill and began to shoot bad kicks against them, saying, "'that you pull me and not you, the onion is mine and not yours. As soon as he said this, he tore the onion. And the woman fell into the lake and is still burning. And the angel wept and went away. "
Features stingy person :
The miser spends as little as possible their own money, his power is given by the money and this avoids the risk situation that life requires (to keep in mind that all our life is a risk factor. Who knows how to live well the financial resources and uses them).
The miser can not decide, the failure to decide constitutes omnipotence (who does not de-cide , ie does not exclude any possibility, it has all the possibilities, even if they can use any). In fact the person who falls into sin does not believe this because it is convinced that he is omnipotent.
Another feature is that it believes the failure mortal share their goods with others, afraid to feel more and more poor, and thinks to himself that subtract to give others weaken. Recall that Jesus taught instead to give without hesitation, because God will take care to provide for the need, the need to: "Give us this day our daily bread", which is enough to live on when (not to overdo it, though).
Catherine Pezzoni
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