The Forgotten Way

Passion 52 Enervation

Enervation is lacking strength or vitality. It is spiritual weakness and feebleness. 

Passion 51 Sickness of Soul

Sickness of soul is the pain and suffering caused by sin to our soul associated with a loss of desire to fulfill God's commandments.

Passion 50 Stumbling

Stumbling is sin through weakness or a momentary lapse in attentiveness. 

Passion 49 Vice

The tendency to a particular sin acquired through repetition. 

Passion 48 Bodily Comfort Beyond What is Required

Excessive pampering of our sensory desires and an unwillingness to mortify our flesh to grow in virtue.

Passion 47 Dallying

To act without full attention to our thoughts. A failure to expel evil thoughts and to indulge in them for amusement.

Passion 46 Demonic Provocation

The initial enticement to sin that assails a person from the outside.

Passion 45 Mindless Coupling

Entertaining and playing with a sinful thought.