The two worst sins you commit every day for Pope Francis

The worst sins for Pope Francis: Jealousy and envy are two sins capable of killing, according to Pope Francis. This is what he argued in one of his last homilies in Santa Marta, specifying that neither the Church nor the Christian community are exempt from these sins. These are two sins too often wrongly underestimated, because one tends not to consider how bad one can do with the word dictated by jealousy, and how much resentment hotels in the hearts of the envious.

The Pope takes his cue from the First Reading, which narrates the episode of the jealousy of Saul, king of Israel, towards David, who would have been his successor. The growing fame of David, who after defeating Goliath in a duel, found himself doing businesses for which he was constantly praised by the people more than King Saul, led the latter to suffer from jealousy towards him, up to persecute him by forcing him to a long escape.

One of the worst sins for Pope Francis is envy, because it is extremely insidious. You can't stand anything that gives shade to your figure, and this unpleasant feeling over time becomes such a worm to make those who suffer from it live in a state of perpetual torment. Prolonged exposure to this torment produces tremendous thoughts, which go as far as the desire to kill the object of one's envy, to get rid of it definitively.

Bergoglio speaks of real "suffering", of a state of perennial pain that ends up making you lose your mind until you think that the definitive solution to your problem is the death of others. In the milder, but no less serious, forms, jealousy and envy can kill with speech. To put in a bad light those who have put us in the shade, we are willing to weave a dense network of chatter and gossip, terrible to bear for those who are victims of it.

"We ask the Lord to give us the grace not to open our hearts to jealousies, not to open our hearts to envy, because these things always lead to death": with these words the Pope invites us not to fall into this type of error, because the subtlest trap is the one that leads you to believe that the good of others is made and created to put your miseries and weaknesses in a bad light. This is not so, and too often one pretends not to know.

Jesus himself was handed over to Pilate because of the envy of the scribes. Mark says it in his Gospel, that Pilate was perfectly aware of it. And this is THE proof that out of envy one can consciously decide to turn someone over to death. Both with words, making scorched earth around, and with deeds. But the latter case, fortunately, is less frequent.

Taken from cristianità.it