The Seven Deadly Sins: Lenten Meditations
An Introduction to “The Seven Deadly Sins”
Lenten Meditations
Fr. David Curry
Lent 2009
(A detail from a larger painting by Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1480) on the Seven Deadly Sins.
The original is now at the Museo del Prado, Madrid)
Peccatum poena peccati. Sin is the punishment of sin, St. Augustine observes. The contemplation of sin is an important feature of the moral life of Christians. After all, one cannot speak about sin without reference to God. The confession of sin is equally a confession of praise to God.
The Christian moral tradition speaks of seven deadly sins. Why seven?
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