Author: Rocky

Next week is the one year anniversary of my friend Pat’s death. She died of a blood clot on her 43rd birthday. Pat’s life means so much to me as I consider her death.  Pat knew how to live.  She always told me, “Why are you not eating at Ohio’s only 5-star French restaurant? It’s… Continue reading Happy Birthday Pat

Last week I discussed the seven deadly sins.  This week I want to talk about death. I have always wanted to die peacefully. I believe my husband wants to die with some vibrato.  My son asks weekly if we must die because he wants no part of that nonsense. Often death is the most defining… Continue reading Death Week

Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of Greed: “it is a sin directly against one’s neighbor; since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them… it is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, inasmuch as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.” A bit like Sloth,… Continue reading Greed

It’s everywhere. Thomas Aquinas would flip his lid to see the modern and expanded manifestations of lust. Pornography is a $13 billion dollar industry.  I have no personal tales of lust.  Aren’t you relieved?  😉 I direct you instead to an interesting and controversial Christian solution to Lust.  Have you been to XXXChurch.com?

Nothing illustrates wrath for me like road rage.  I once saw a mini-van clad in Christian signage – the silver fish, two or three bumper stickers, and a cross hanging from the rearview mirror – and the driver got cut off and lost her mind.  She rolled down her window and started yelling and gesturing… Continue reading Wrath

DeadlySins.com is my source for all future definitions this week. They say, “Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of Envy: “Envy according to the aspect of its object is contrary to charity, whence the soul derives its spiritual life… Charity rejoices in our neighbor’s good, while envy grieves over it.” That’s more then just keeping up… Continue reading Envy

The mystery blogger going by the pseudonym Reginald de Piperno defines Sloth thoroughly and with lots of good sources. He says, “So sloth isn’t simple laziness – a vice in itself – but rather, it is a sorrow or sluggishness about doing good that prevents one from doing it.” Here’s an ongoing case study from my own life.… Continue reading Sloth

My son is proud when he works hard on a picture and gives it to me. He says, “I made it for you.” His eyes shine, he smiles broad, and he gets the tape. That’s not the pride I’m talking about. Here’s the one . . . “Oh pride, hey how you been? Anything new… Continue reading Pride

Malley’s Bacon Bark says it all for me. It’s a Jewish nightmare in a box, pig + dairy, not to mention a coronary delight. Yeesh. I jest, but this is serious. It’s estimated that 97 million Americans are obese, which puts them at risk for all kinds of ailments. The half sourced Wikipedia definition of… Continue reading Gluttony

I am not Catholic, but I like the seven deadlies because they’ve been bandied about since the 4th century and have inspired many works of art and literature. Removing the influence of monks, there are these abominations from Proverbs 6: 16-19: These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:… Continue reading The 7 Deadly Sins