"Lust, Avarice and Envy" from "The Ladder of Souls with the Seven Deadly Sins,"
Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Chaldon, England
The following is taken from a sermon for Passion Sunday by our Lenten guide, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church:
"St. Francis of Assisi says, that, in endeavouring to draw to sin a soul that is afraid of being in enmity with God, the Devil does not seek in the beginning to bind her with the chain of a slave, by tempting her to commit mortal sin, because she would have a horror of yielding to mortal sin, and would guard herself against it. He first endeavours to bind her by a single hair; then by a slender thread; next by a cord; afterwards by a rope; and in the end by a chain of Hell, - that is by mortal sin; and thus he makes her his slave."
St. Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us.
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