7 Deadly Sins

The basic goods of life are friendship, play, practical reasonableness, knowledge, aesthetic experience, and life. In light of discovering and understanding what is good for people to have we eventually may discover what is good to do. Doing the good forms our character. Character is the habituated promotion of basic goods and their use in constructing just civilization. Character defects occur when pain and pleasure distort the pursuit of one or more goods and results in the harming of one or more other goods. It appears that life is the good most often harmed.

Sloth- a lack of response to desire for the basic goods.
Lust- a desire for the unreal.
Pride- a lustful conception of self.
Gluttony- a desire for more than is proper.
Greed- a gluttonous desire for that which does not belong to you.
Envy- a greedy desire for that which is properly another's.
Anger- violent thinking or behavior stemming from the fear of losing what you have and/or of not getting what you want.

Hic verbum caro factum est

The latin translates roughly as "here the word became flesh." This statement is on a little plaque in the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. This statement also symbolizes the difference between wanting to know what I must do to be saved and becoming a follower of Christ. For my human living it describes the journey from ethics to ethos. Ethics is about knowing the rules, ethos is about a way of living based on sanctified desire. Today is the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. You can find readings here, and a sermon here.