I think the young priest in yesterday’s Sunday mass sermon was brilliant. He was talking about the vices jealousy and envy.
I was under the impression that envy was a refined version of jealousy. Like the ‘naked’ and ‘nude’ where naked is lustful and nude artistic.
Apparently I was wrong with envy.
Jealousy is a feeling where one feels that he doesn’t have something he desires and another has got it. The ‘have not’ is jealous of the ‘have’ and that ends there.
But envy is different. Envy is jealousy but it doesn’t end there. When someone is envious, he wants to destroy the cause of envy or the person who he is envious of.
That’s why envy is one of the seven deadly sins. Apparently they are lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. (I have some concern with the first and the last).
The priest was clever and I have a hunch that he was explaining the reason of publicising a scandal on the church in Kerala.
In fact I was giving jealousy as the reason and now correct it to envy.
This is insightful……althogh a thin line between the two but one can be totally destructive. Thank you for sharing Kurian 😊
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You are the most welcome Sakshi 🤗
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And both these vices are ever increasing day by day. Sad.
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True. Thank you Savitha for being there 🌹
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This is very interesting to contemplate. Yes I would say that envy is indeed a sin as you’ve described it, not simply wanting what a fellow diner ordered when the plates arrive 🙂
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Thank you Diana. Such a valuable comment 🤗
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Hugs and Monday happiness to you Dear Kurian!
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Have a lovely Monday dear Diana. 🤗🤗
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Interesting
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Thank you Adithya
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How interesting and definitely food for thought! I always felt jealousy destroyed a relationship while envy was just wishing you had it but not acting upon it.
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I was also under the impression. But interestingly envy is in the deadly sin category
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Interesting point! I believe that envy is dangerous because people can lose themselves and become completely engrossed in the subject of their attention.
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I agree. Like i said i thought jealousy was bad. Now to think of it envy is the destroyer
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