The Sin of SLOTH and How to Overcome It w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, OP

[@michelemcdermott75]

Whe you said paralyzed- that hit me hard. I get so overwhelmed that I do nothing! 🙏😢

[@pwnayr]

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

[@gerihall8265]

I often have to tell myself, “Just keep putting one step in front of the other.”

[@tonygville2969]

#metoo 😔, I try to do the one thing that I Don't want to do each day, but I don't always succeed at it. I needed to hear this talk 👍 Viva Cristo Rey 🙏

[@carloselhakim]

By God is this true. I also get that after a day of nothing, I just settle to hope for a better tomorrow. I give up before the day is over, when I still can save it. That's the last temptation of the day, "you've already wasted it, why bother? Tomorrow you'll have renewed energy." Tomorrow you'll probably feel exactly like you feel now. Get behind us, Satan! Stumbling block to Christ! Lord, set our hearts on your purposes.

[@nancyjohnson5483]

Yes, I hear you. I am trying to do one more thing than I think/believe I can each day (it may be to pour a bath, clean the sink, call my mom, drop of those donations-depends on the level I am at that time). Then I thank God for the running water, that I have so abundantly and so on....I personally spent a lot of energy in my life looking at whether I am doing bad instead of looking at where I could do more good.

[@tarolantern9729]

1. Don’t Compare Graces and lose Hope 2. Take small steps to smooth out highs and lows - grow habitually into life of virtue 3. Stay close to sacrament of Confession which cultivates a real interior Peace

[@sandraelder1101]

I’ll add a strategy - Go to daily mass as much as possible. At least then, even if you struggle the rest of the day, you’ve done something of eternal value!

[@heperona]

Life isn t thst perfect .

[@lisacup6876]

The rosary has really helped me. One step, Hail Mary, at a time. It's slow and consistent, but pretty soon you will have ascended a mountain with small steps. You can't allow other people's process get you down. Some people seem to take a train up their mountain lol!

[@lucianaletilic6956]

Do your job, your everyday duties with great love and humility, and do that for greater glory of God, without seeking to be praised and honoured. In that way we earn our eternal prize in heaven. Pax et bonum. 🕊️🙏

[@mattberg916]

Yes,yes, yes!

[@kt5137]

Easier said than done

[@shaunmiller3110]

Thank you for being so gentle. A lot of times I have trouble listening to how to overcome sins because it feels like the person is just beating me down. You are very gentle and wise with your words. It helps me take those small steps forward. I appreciate it so much.

[@mattberg916]

I grew up with a very intimate relationship with hard physical labor (I worked for Dad). I have been applying the knowledge of "keep plugging along" to most things in my life. My spirituality is no different. I've also heard Fr. Corapi say ,"You don't feel like praying? Tough, do it anyway!" I look at prayer as my duty to the Almighty Father, to my loved ones, to the Faithful and to myself. Pray for me as I am praying for you!

[@mikethemonsta15]

Fr. Pine, I love your reflections and educational videos on Pints and Godsplaining, you're doing such amazing work for the Church. I'm a new convert and I've brought my parents to the faith as well thanks in no small part to you! Please pray for my mom whose going through chemo. Pray for my wife that she might bear our new daughter healthy. And that my sister and I will be reconciled and she and her family will join the Catholic faith. Praise be Jesus Christ!

[@sandraelder1101]

Welcome home! ~fellow convert

[@angelahahn809]

Amen 🙏

[@Ralph_Malph]

I'm glad I came across this video. Laziness is an evil that remains under the radar. Thanks for the three suggestions.. I need to exercise them in my life.

[@battlebrother5594]

I really needed to hear this, I hadn't realized how deep I was in this particular sin, thank you

[@josephzammit8483]

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[@MissPopuri]

Comparison is the thief of joy. I don’t know who said it, but it applies to so many things that it has become a universal truth.

[@jacobotajuelo9297]

Thank you! I had never realised that my being prone to procrastinate was due to hopelesness and believing God's commandments are unreachable. 1 Jn 3: "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." Keep up the good work!

[@sandraelder1101]

Thank you for addressing this. I struggle esp. when I’m off work, as in school breaks (teacher). I have a difficult time keeping leisure and proper rest from turning into whole weeks of sluggishness. My holy side gets me to daily mass while my evil side makes excuses for being a couch potato the rest of the day.

[@gerihall8265]

Nothing wrong with the couch, ie: I have no cable tv, and try to feed on Spiritual reading and KZbin viewing.

[@alexandraduvnjak1041]

Wow, exact same issue with me. I am also a teacher and struggle with the exact same problem. I lay on the couch to rest just for a moment. Yet hours later, nothing gets done for the day. Then this becomes a problem multiple days in a row. It is a struggle overcoming the paralysis that sets in once off work. It's much easier to lay and pray or watch podcasts rather than completing chores around the house. Before you know it, the house is a mess! Definitely searching for a way to overcome this paralysis, or sloth!

[@sandraelder1101]

@@gerihall8265 Anything can be overdone, including relaxation, leisure, binge watching EWTN, Dickens & Austen DVD marathons, etc. Nothing wicked, just WAY too much of good things leading to lots of sins of omission.

[@sandraelder1101]

@@alexandraduvnjak1041 You “get me” entirely! Most people I talk to think I’m either feeling guilty about normal, healthy leisure or am exaggerating the problem.

[@roseg1333]

Well said Fr. 😃🙏🏼 I have always been the person that has been Confronted with obstacles or things out of my grasp and thought and worked for a way to achieve them then recently I feel like I can’t reach things at all anymore. Like I’m climbing up a mountain with a huge bolder on my back and nothing I do is good enough. I see my cousins archive things during this pandemic and world crisis and I just can’t seem to pull myself out of this depression? like I’ll never achieve anything ever again and it just depresses me more. Thank you for reminding me to keep going. To getting closer to God and his wishes for my life but also to keep striving for my dreams no matter how dire things look right now. Little things can be big achievements too. 🥰 thank you again Fr.

[@dogcatmom5877]

Thank you, Father. I really needed to hear this today. I never realized that this is what sloth really means. 🙏

[@pyrovania]

Sloth vs. major depression is a difficult one.

[@barbarakuehl2777]

Thank u Father needed 2 hear that today & apply it 2 my life God bless u Mother Mary protect u

[@criticalbruv]

Praise God. This 7 seconds actually massively helped me in understanding so much about my life and my relationship to God and where I need to pray. I always wondered about such things, but growing up protestant lacks sooo much clarity on so much of my base experience. God is the only answer to all our pain and suffering and Catholicism is the means to understanding and growing in that relationship with God according to how everyone needs, not just a particular kind of person who is apparently superior (as protestant communities often act so often)...

[@Selahsmum]

Father, I really needed this talk. It has been immensely helpful, thank you.

[@JJ-io6cl]

This is a tricky one for me. I hate my job currently and I can't stand it. I spend most of my day praying and watching clips on spirituality, religion etc. I know technically I am stealing from my boss but I feel so enriched following these fantastic clips on doctrine, faith, prayer.

[@kimfleury]

If the devil can only tempt you through holy things, that's what he'll use.

[@angelahahn809]

@kafluery Not sure the devil will temp anyone to Pray I just don’t agree with your statement

[@angelahahn809]

@jj Praying is everything that is what we are told to do pray always without ceasing so you are doing great! Glory to God 🙏

[@WesselDab]

I would like to add in the video he said God gives the blessed mother some particular graces, according to The Mystical City of God, He gave her all divine grace that a mortal creature can accept

[@Arcticroberto9376]

I love fr pine, I hope he says on this channel for a while

[@veronicamacgreevy6532]

Thank You Fr Gregory. What sound advice with clear definitions and to the point. Praise God

[@zacharywitt4009]

You should do videos, one video per commandment, that lays out and explains the different commandments and the sins that fall under each.

[@alexandernorris8189]

Thank you Father - this is exactly what I needed to hear!

[@pintswithaquinas]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kimfleury]

Thank you, this is helpful. Every case is individual, of course, so the way it manifests will vary. Some of us have so much on our plates that sloth intrudes in the off time. I'm not talking about things we chose to do, but actual family duties. The obligations might be fulfilled, but anything beyond that is neglected, leading to spiritual stagnation. But it's helpful to know that there is a safeguard to keep from falling into despair. As always, 3 Hail Marys for you, Father 🌹🌹🌹🙏🏻

[@veneraberens4653]

TY IM GLAD I CAUGHT THIS I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EVERYONE STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY AND GODS BLESSINGS BLESSINGS ON US ALL AND HEAVENS PANTRY SET ALL OUR TABLES TOGETHER ALWAYS NOT YELLING ALMOST COMPLETELY BLIND

[@supahjadi8944]

1.Dont compare yourself to others, only to God 2.) Develop small habits that falicitate virtue. 3.) Confess.

[@bradleytarr2482]

Post-Retreat lows I can handle. They're not too bad. It is Post-Mens Conference, or Steubenville Conference, or Deep in History Conference, or Catholic Answers Conference, etc, that are way harder to deal with.

[@reginaputri7642]

Thank you SO much for this, Fr. Gregory! God bless u🙏

[@millybergh4649]

Thk you Fr Pine for your down to earth explanations Also your youth is refreshing and talks inspiring God bless

[@alleyzipzero1]

Thank you for this message Father Pine ❤

[@liliarosales1961]

Thank for going deeper on this

[@astraruza9001]

Hello, I would like to have more practical advice - I already go you confession frequently. I live alone in foreign country, I don't have family and friends here but back home. I am working as flight attend, it's very hard to keep a routine for me. What exactly should I practice to overcome laziness? I feel lonely sometimes, want to become saint but don't know how. I have a mission from God to heal souls but I don't know in what particular way. I want to accomplish what I am born to do. My only interest is in spiritual life, practical things are somewhat painful, they are meaningless to me, I have no interest in them, but I push myself to do it. However sometimes I spend all day on KZbin videos. I understand that it has no point but what should I do.

[@l21n18]

As I understand it sloth really doesn’t mean laziness in the common understanding of the term

[@shellydickinson8598]

Thank you, Father! This was helpful 🙂

[@adamwestlund4750]

Thank you so much Father!

[@toddcarver1430]

Such great directions. Thank you and God bless you.

[@soroushfetkovich5084]

Thank you dear father for your excellent explanation .

[@AlbornozVEVO]

i think it was Kierkegaard who said "the saint is that person who remains focused on one thing". obviously this is referring to God. and it pairs really well with "the saint becomes themself". my takeaway is that by focusing on God, the one Being, we are also participating in Being. and the only way to be, is to be Good. so everything that takes from our focus on God, also takes from our ability to be. and that is sloth: the refusal to be.

[@margaretmurti6845]

Fr r u explaining one of the deadly sins if so would you please explain the other six on different videos bec there’s a lot of catholic people do not understand it then after these do the seven sacraments in different videos short n simple so we could understand it well thankyou be safe God bless

[@Clickybux]

This was so helpful and offered me a lot of hope thankyou for your formational teaching 🙂

[@alexdingle7877]

That was awesome. Thanks!

[@justforrfunnn]

I really needed this

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

Ok, this is relevant to me.

[@btinsen]

Very well explained. Thank you. 😇

[@zita-lein]

This was really good! Loved it!

[@ColonelShmeep]

What’s up Father Michael Much love from Colombia 👌

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool, sloth is sadly my temperaments predominant fault (gluttony is second, they seem to be cousins or more like siblings). Fr. Pine looks familiar, I think he's from that cool channel focused on St. Thomas Aquinas (Thomistic Institute seminary, I believe). God bless.

[@sleppynoggin8808]

I saw a video in recomended with him and it was on the channel you mentioned! Great observation

[@SevenDeMagnus]

@@sleppynoggin8808 Thomistic Institutue KZbin channel is beyond amazing. I've never appreciated St. Thomas that much before, until I saw their channel's videos. Strive to become great saint, that's the no. 1

[@priscillafinch2341]

I really needed hear this, thank you

[@fennycruz6714]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ba-boom! God bless.

[@jeanneh6361]

Thank you.

[@verntweld51]

Sloths used to be 10 ft tall with fangs and winter fur to survive North America winters. Let’s try to be more like those

[@MattisWell.20]

Like all particular sins, “sloth” is only the symptom.

[@Goretti8201]

I second a comment made by another person about differentiating between psychological depression and sloth. Is there a difference? If so, are you still committing the sin of sloth if you've been diagnosed with clinical depression? This is very confusing, and it also overlaps with Ignatian teaching on spiritual desolation. Is it a bad spirit of sloth that I have to somehow find the strength to reject, or a bonifide genetic illness like depression for which I have zero strength to fight at times?

[@kimfleury]

If I may suggest, look into your will - that is, consider what you want. I think it is so difficult to distinguish between spiritual sloth and physical depression as a bio-chemical disorder, that psychologists don't always differentiate between them. Of course, a secular psychologist won't even consider spiritual sloth as a possibility. However, if your will is to follow the will of God, then simply ask Him to remove negative spiritual aspects of your disorder, then trust that He will, and just do your best to manage your physical condition. I think if you do that, and if it turns out that it's all spiritual warfare, then you have fought the battle. Fighting the battle gives glory to God. 🙏🏻📿 You're permanently in my prayers ✝️

[@ronaldbobeck1026]

Get a job as a Warehouse men or Materials handler, oLocal delivery driver or any building trade. I have worked "Manuel labors jobs until I qualified for Social Security benefits. I have been working since 1969 . With the exception of my time in the military for Vietnam. I been a very clock puncher. Now I enjoy my naps walks with my companion animals . I really appreciate appreciate when professional academic 's / clergy harp on laziness.

[@alexandriatownsend119]

Thanks!

[@Mary-ui4im]

Beautiful

[@Selahsmum]

Does anyone know if Father Pine has an email address that is public? I don't expect him to write back but I'd love to write him a thank you email for the ways he has blessed me. Thanks if anyone knows. :)

[@taramcdonaldortiz4810]

"Ba Boom" Love That Father Made me giggle 💜💜💜

[@FissileThomist]

It sounds like fr pine is talking moreso about acedia. However, sloth and acedia are basically the same thing

[@david_porthouse]

Archbishop Scicluna and Bishop Grech published a heretical interpretation of Amoris Laetitia in L'Osservatore Romano, but the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith did nothing about it. Do you think this is a prime example of sloth?

[@DarkAngel-cj6sx]

Anyone uses logos Bible here? I just discovered yet from Steve Ray video and I can't figure out which Bible is catholic

[@hglundahl]

4:05 the saint _whom_ you are meant to be ... complement of predicate would normally take a nominative, not an accusative / dative?

[@kimfleury]

I think a lot of moderns are switching out "who" for "whom," and I'm not sure why.

[@hglundahl]

@@kimfleury hypercorrection whom is correct in "the man whom I saw" but who is correct in "the man who I am (meant to be)" It's vulgar to use "who" for "whom" and so some use "whom" for "who" backwards of the vulgar mistake.

[@BrizAU]

What I'd someone suffers with depression?

[@josemendoza9288]

Yo

[@christofeles63]

This has very little to to with sloth.

[@anthonyp3066]

Jesus is Lord Amen

[@leoncaruthers]

Frequent confession led me to despair, so there goes that one.

[@brettneville2351]

I wonder if one reason that may be is that it's hard to see progress (?). During a certain time, it seemed that way to me, no progress, when I tried going to confession more often, up to bi-weekly. I've gone too far the other way now, but it could be it's better to increase frequency more slowly.

[@leoncaruthers]

@@brettneville2351 I never went more than twice a month, but even so, it never seemed like the temptations were lessening, and I ended up hating myself more each time, and ultimately with anger at God for not helping me to do as He willed.

[@kimfleury]

@@leoncaruthers but He is helping you in the way that will do the most good. You receive the grace through sacramental Confession, but your will is either to accept or reject it. Ask God to reform your will.

[@leoncaruthers]

@@kimfleury if He's trying to help and I'm unwittingly rejecting that help, then it's not helpful at all. I asked for help, and it got worse. I stopped asking.

[@johnfisher247]

Sloth is an animal ...sloath....pronunciated that way is the vice. Yes God loves mankind...however loves each individual in individually....he does not love us in the same way ...or the same. Thinking that is the intrusion off a democratic way of viewing the world.

[@KarmicSalt]

sloth is depression

[@akichang748]

✨️👍🏻✨️🙏👼🙏🌷

[@Timbry95]

I'm going to say this again. Please stop with the silly thumbnails. Thank you. Besides that, as always a great video by father!

[@fyodordostoevsky4290]

Melancholy= sloth, so young dynamic ambitious CEOS are ok, melancholic poetic souls can go to hell. It's like Cesare Pavese said :" We forgive everyone except those who are bored with life"

[@fyodordostoevsky4290]

@Harmony D. What a pleasant surprise. I was expecting some bigot, bashing me for not being part of the regiment that sings the praises. Of course I was a bit of a troll, and of course you are right in everything you said. But in the end you do have to confess the sin of sitting on a cliff in a melancholic mood looking at the sun drowning in the ocean, when you could have been serving soup to the homeless, at that very moment down town where everything looks industrial and practical. You sinned against charity for being a romantic dreamer instead of a volunteer with a practical mindset. There's no way in hell you can convince me that having a personality isn't a sin in the eyes of the church. Everyone should be the copy of a copy of a copy.

[@tinag7506]

@@fyodordostoevsky4290 not really. If you read about the saints we can notice the vast differences in their temperaments and what they liked and what they disliked. But they all have one thing in common: they all tried really, really hard to bring glory to God in whatever they did. And also, humility.

[@fyodordostoevsky4290]

@@tinag7506 yeah but it was like plastic or paper, oranges or clementines, that kind of stuff, there were no Democrat saint were there? In the end they all had to be Republicans. "For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it. ." You're not allowed a life/personality that is not totally submissive to God.

[@edwardo737]

@@fyodordostoevsky4290 you are allowed your very own personality. In all things strive to love God and neighbor. When you fail, start again. Impossible to do yourself .. possible with help.

[@fyodordostoevsky4290]

@@edwardo737 although I'm not even catholic, I used to be a great admirer of Bishop Barron and his Word on fire ministers, and of Pope Francis, but nowadays I find their lack of testosterone disturbing. I can only respect the Holy Inquisiton days of Catholicism. Only the hardcore marginal Church militant Catholicism stimulates my mind and my soul and can save western civilization, the rest is chamomile tea.

[@summersloth2899]

Hope to be a person having an oxymoron name 😭

[@erinerickson4125]

You understanding of sloth is correct, but you left out one important flaw. Hope. Sloth is accompanied by a loss of Hope. Gospel means Good News. Now why would anyone who had been taught the Good News not have hope? Maybe because the Good News being taught is a false one. A lie the Church was teaching by pushing a false Kingdom of God. So many sources of so many cultural sins comes from the lies of the Catholic Church and its false understanding of the Kingdom of God, that stem from its heretical Natural Law Theology.

[@erinerickson4125]

Also, Sloth is a Demon, its not a Sin. It is a Demon of a unrighteous society. Defeating a Demon is a lot different than defeating a Sin. You got to wrestle with a Demon like God wrestles with Satan. You defeat it though works.

[@kimfleury]

It's both.

[@IsaacEstrada12]

Don’t compare Don’t expect too fast Be kind to yourself Tomo Fujita has it down….minus the confession.

[@youtubecommenter2]

I'm too lazy to watch this video.

[@OpEditorial]

Sloth 🦥 is also the cutest of the seven deadly sins.

[@rodgerdoucette2841]

Why doesn't the Roman Catholic Church speak against sex pervertion a well known practice of the Roman Catholic.

[@kimfleury]

Sex perversion is evil. So is calumny.

[@futilitarian3809]

One excellent way to avoid sloth: Don't surrender the responsibility for critical inquiry and moral rigour by relying upon an ancient, heavily flawed, highly contradictory text for intellectual and ethical instruction.

[@kimfleury]

Don't rely on modern inventions that everything is meaningless.

[@futilitarian3809]

@@kimfleury Are you talking about nihilism, KA? Very, very few people are nihilists, and laziness isn't an inevitable consequence of nihilism. Can you explain further?

[@erinerickson4125]

Too combine the two responses. You teach a false Sin of Sloth that hides the Truth of the True Resurrection at the end of the Age in order to blame the poor for the sins of the Alpha Male Pyramidal incompetent leadership of Money and Power of the last 2000 years. In short, you don't worship the Father, you worship the Trinity of Time, Money and Power, while turning your back on poor. Ezekiel 34:7-10 7 “‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.

[@kimfleury]

Piddlewash! Your ilk hates the poor. I've been impoverished my whole life, I know your kind well. I was once invited to a fancy family dinner where the hosts obviously expected praise and gratitude, which I did give, but would have given anyway. During the meal, they bragged about their teen granddaughter who had performed the charitable act of taking holiday turkeys to poor families. They asked her to tell about her experience, and she talked about how ungrateful the poor were. If they and you don't repent of this arrogance, and pay the penalty owed to God, then you have received your reward on earth and won't be invited to the wedding feast of the Bridegroom.

[@michaelanderson7715]

One of the Emperor's underlings sitting around explaining galactic doctrine, pathetic.

[@RumorHazi]

What?!?