backbiting
rating rash caused concern, contempt of others, pride and satisfaction in themselves and hundred other adverse effects, including the first place goes to the gossip, true plague of conversations. I wish I had a burning coal of the holy altar to pass the lips of men to take their world from their sin and wickedness, just as the Seraph came to the mouth of Isaiah.
If this were to remove the scandal from the world would disappear most of the sins and wickedness. Who rips unjustly the good name of the next addition to the sins he is charged, remains the obligation to repair in an appropriate manner depending on the kind of slander committed. No one can enter Heaven in bringing the goods of others, and now, of all external goods, the most precious is the proper name. Backbiting is a real murder, because three is our lives: spiritual life, based on the grace of God, life body, established in the soul; civic life is good name. Distract us from the first sin, death takes away the second, backbiting deprives us of the third. The backbiting, with one blow vibrato language, makes three offenses .- spiritually kills his own soul, that of one who listens suicide and the person whose civil Sparla. Says S. Bernard is the one who Sparla as one who listens to the slanderer, have the devil in him, one on the tongue and the other ear. David, referring to the slanderers say: They have sharpened their tongues like those of snakes.
The snake has a forked tongue, with two points, as Aristotle says, as it stands is that of the slanderer, who with a single bite wounds and poisons the ear of the listener and the good name of the person spoken of evil.
why I beg you, dearest Philothea, not to never speak ill of anyone, either directly or indirectly. He is careful not to attribute non-existent crimes and sins to others, not to reveal those left secrets, not to inflate the known ones, not to interpret the good done in the negative, not to deny the good that you know exist in someone, do not pretend to ignore, much less then you have to diminish in words, by doing so seriously offended God especially if I were to falsely accuse the next Negassi the truth or against him, while lying next to the harm is double sin.
Those who gossip to sow honorary make introductions, and the seasoned kind of short phrases, or worse, ridicule, false accusers, are thinner and more poisonous.
protest, they say, that I love him and the rest is a gentleman, but, still, the truth must be said: that was wrong in committing treachery; that is a virtuous girl, but she left a surprise ..., and similar small frames!
do not understand where's the art? Who wants to shoot an arrow, which can pull more of him, but it is only to hurl it with greater force: you can also get the impression that they pull him to the scandal, but only to shoot with greater confidence, to instill it deeper into the hearts of those who listen.
Backbiting flow in the form of ridicule is the most evil of all, the hemlock suggests that, in itself, is not a very strong poison, even has an action will slow and easy can be remedied, but if it is '1 wine is no escape, and the same is taken with a scandal that, by its nature, according to that, would come in one ear and the other would come out and instead penetrates deeply in the mind the audience when presented in a context of fine words and jovial.
Says David: They have the poison of the asp under their lips. The sting of the asp is almost imperceptible, and its venom gives the first enjoyable an itch, so that broadens the heart and the viscera, and thus promotes the absorption of the poison, against which there will be nothing left to do.
Never say: This is such a drunk, even if you saw him drunk really, that's an adulterer, because you saw it in adultery, and incest because you caught in the misfortune one action does not entitle you to classify people. The sun stopped once to help the victory of Joshua and darkened again for the victory of the Savior, no one comes to mind for this to say that the sun is still and dark.
Noah got drunk once, and so Lot and these, in addition, is also seriously committed incest, not so they were drunk, and you can not say that it was incestuous. It can not be said that St. Peter was a bloody because once he shed blood, nor that it was blasphemous because has blasphemed once.
To classify a vicious or virtuous, which must have made progress and got habits, so it is a lie to say that a man or a thief is angry because we saw him angry only once or steal.
Even if a man is vicious for a long time, you may be calling him vicious lie.
Simon the leper called Magdalene a sinner, because it had been before, he lied because he was no longer, indeed it was a holy penitent, and the Lord defended. That other great Pharisee vain considered sinful tax collector, unjust, adulterer, thief, but was mistaken, because at that time was warranted.
Since the goodness of God is so great that just a moment to request and obtain his grace, how do we know which one, who was a sinner yesterday, it is today? The previous day does not allow us to judge the present, and this does not allow us to judge the past. Only the last one will classify them all.
We can never say that a man with no danger of lying is bad. If we can say that it is necessary to talk about who committed this or that evil action, which led a disorderly life in that period, that this evil act, but it is not permissible to draw conclusions from yesterday to today, not today for yesterday, today and even less for tomorrow.
If it is true that one must be very careful never to speak ill of others, but we must also look from the opposite, they fall into a few, who, for fear of slander of praise and speak well of the defect.
If you come across a shameless slanderer, to apologize, not to say that it is a free and frank person, a person openly vain, do not say that is generous and without complexes, the freedom not just call them dangerous and naive, not camouflage disobedience by the name of zeal, arrogance by the name of openness, sensuality with the name of friendship.
Philothea Cara, to escape the vice of slander, you must not encourage, stroke, and nourish other vices, but with simplicity and candor, you need to speak ill of evil and blame things to blame, only if we act in this way we give glory to God but He
attienti and attention to what you now tell you.
can commendably blamed the vices of others, and even necessary and required, as it is required the good of the person spoken of or listener. We
examples: suppose that in the presence of girls are committed by Tom told of licentiousness and Caia: it is certainly a dangerous thing, or suppose that there is talk of the licentiousness of such a report or such, also exemplifying; or even obscene conduct, if I do not blame clearly that bad, or worse, try to excuse him, those tender souls who listen, have an excuse to indulge in something similar, and their good requires that, quite frankly, blames those obscenities fly. Could I reserve the right to do so at another time only if I knew certainly obtain a better result at the same time removing the guilty importance.
P also needed something else to talk about the subject I must have the authority, or because they are one of the most featured in the group, in which case I do not speak, I will have to approve the air vice: if Instead the group do not enjoy much consideration, I have to look good and make complaints. Most of all
Then I need to be weighed and exact words, not too much of one thing only: for example. if I have to return the excessive freedom of the young man and that girl, because clearly exaggerated and dangerous, I do not know how to keep the measure to inflate it even by a whisker.
If there is only some suspicion, I will only say that, if it is only imprudence, I will not say more, and if there is neither reckless nor suspicion of evil, but only because some spirit on the face of malicious gossip, I will not say anything at all or only tell you what it is,
When I talk about next, my mouth in the use of language is be compared to the surgeon wielding a scalpel in a delicate operation between nerves and tendons: the shot must be very accurate in vibro expresses neither more nor less than the truth.
One last thing: while reproducing the defect, you must be careful not to involve the person wearing it. I give you to speak freely only sinners infamous public and known by all, but again you have to do with the spirit of charity and compassion, not arrogance and presumption, much less to enjoy the evil of others. for that reason it is evidence of a heart vile and despicable.
make exceptions for the avowed enemies of God and the Church, and those are the most discredited possible, for example, the schismatic and heretical sects and their leaders. It 'cry wolf charity when you hide among the sheep, no matter where. All
take the freedom to judge and criticize and speak evil rulers of entire reactions, guided by sympathy Philothea not commit this mistake. You, over the offense to God, you run the risk of provoking one thousand complaints.
When you hear bad, if you can do with the merits, put in doubt the prosecution, if it is not possible, shows compassion for the guilty, changed the subject, recalls and reminds the audience that those who not only have the wrong Reports to God himself in the gossip with good manners, if you know something good of the person attacked, say it.
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