The Forgotten Way

Lightmindedness is a frivolous, trifling, or immature attitude. Repentance is contrary to lightmindedness.

Meaningful moments in the mundane. 

Gaucherie is lacking social grace and awareness. It is awkwardness.

Uncouthness is a lack of hospitality, manners, and etiquette.

Ignorance of beauty is failing to see, comprehend, and penetrate the truth and goodness of God in the created world.

Love of popularity is to enjoy being well liked, praised, and applauded by many.

Self-satisfaction is smug complacency and conceit.

Ambition is the desire from our own will to do or achieve something that typically requires determination and hard work.

Thoughtlessness is being careless, unalert, and inconsiderate. 

He who loves father, mother, or children more than Me is not worthy of me.  

Self-will is attachment to our own ideas and plans rather than seeking uniformity with God's will.

Fickleness is a lack of steadfastness, constancy, and determination. 

Exploring the need to develop the virtue of detachment and poverty of spirit to make material renunciation meaningful. 

Indifference is a lack of zeal for Christian perfection. It is lukewarmness and tepidity.

Solitary eating is eating alone when it is not appropriate to our state in life. It misses the opportunity to grow in virtue due to avoidance.

Hoggishness is gross selfishness, gluttony, and filth.

Secret eating is eating alone in order to hide our food choices or act of eating from others.

Insatiability is being incapable of being satisfied.

Gluttony is excess eating or drinking, it is rushing through food, it is mindlessly eating, and it is being excessively particular about what we eat.

Illness as medicine to the passions.