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Seven Capital (Deadly) Sins: Pride, anger, covetousness, lust, envy, sloth, gluttony. Seven Corporal Works of Mercy: To feed the hungry; to clothe the naked; to shelter the stranger; to bury the dead; to visit the sick; to help prisoners; and to visit orphans and widows. Seven Gifts of Spiritual Obedience: Power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, blessing. Seven Godly Virtues: Humility, forgiveness, generosity, purity, love, diligence, temperance. Seven Penitential Psalms: 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143. Seven Sacraments: Holy Baptism, Holy Eucharist, Holy Absolution (Confession/Reconciliation of a Penitent), Holy Matrimony, Holy Confirmation, Holy Orders, and Holy Unction (Regular or Extreme/Last Rites). Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy: To instruct the ignorant; to counsel the doubtful; to correct offenders; to comfort the afflicted; to endure injury; to forgive wrong; and to pray for others. Seven Stages of Sin: Suggestion of sin, pleasure in the suggestion, personal consent to act on the suggestion, acting on the suggestion, the act is repeated and becomes a habit (concupiscience), one becomes a slave to the habit, one becomes spiritually blind. Spiritual Rules of Three: 3 to govern - temper, tongue, conduct 3 to cultivate - courage, affection, gentleness 3 to despise - cruelty, arrogance, ingratitude 3 to wish for - health, contentment, friends 3 to practice - love, relief, truth 3 to believe - faith, hope, charity 3 to love - God, family, country 3 to give - alms, comfort, appreciation Spirituality of Worldly Values: Popularity, Wealth, Power, and Pleasure. Stages of Spiritual Growth: There is a steady and ongoing progression of the Christian spiritual life that leads to holiness, maturity, transformation, and Christian perfection, or Christlikeness. See I Cor. 3:1-3; Ephesians 4:13; I Cor. 13:11. The perfection of maturity is not to be understood as an ethical or moral perfection but an appropriation of the full salvation of Christ. Origen, Evagrius, and John Climacus writing in the sixth and earlier centuries, used the ancient metaphor of a ladder for stages of spiritual growth. This became popular in the Greek Church and in growing monastic movements. During the time of the desert fathers and mothers and through the different mystical writers of the centuries, the purgative way, the illuminative way, and the unitive way were adopted. Each of these "ways" had corresponding disciplines and prayers to aid the soul's advancement in the life of grace. The most recent use of the human maturation process to describe spiritual growth is James W. Fowler's Stages of Faith. His stages are: Infancy: A disposition of trust and mutuality in the context of one's relationship with primary caregivers. Early Childhood: A sense of external dependability of the world and (through the experience of stories, moods and actions) an imaginative sense of shared meaning. Childhood: Binding personal experience into general meaning by adding one's story to the shared story, giving a sense of coherence to experience. Adolescence: Stepping out of self-narrative, or the flow of the shared story, to reflect on one's ways of experiencing, allowing one to see patterns and structures of meaning. Young Adulthood: Critical reflection upon shared beliefs and values and self-differentiation. Midlife: The ability to embrace polarities, paradox, and multiple interpretations of reality; an integrative sense of self and self-exploration; and universalizing apprehensions. Later life: Overcoming the paradox of the previous stage to move toward "activist incarnation" - living out the imperatives of absolute love and justice. Other allegorical descriptions of Christian growth can be seen in the writings of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", Hannah Hurnard's "Hinds Feet on High Places", and "The Pilgrim's Regress" by C.S. Lewis. Sunday Obligation: To attend the Holy Eucharist for Communion or worship, unless prevented by serious cause. |
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