Is Anger a Sin??? | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 

I feel like Father Gregory was asked to be a DJ. That was oddly specific. 😂

Fr. Gregory!!! Can you please do more videos like this with the struggles of other temperaments? I think it would be so helpful. Thank you for making this content and may God bless you always!

As a choleric whenever I get mad I feel like everyone can die, including me. it’s so hard to moderate my anger, I’m striving to have these virtues.

Matt!!!! My man you wont believe I was asking God the same question today and here is Fr. Gregory on your channel with this vid... He sometimes answers so fast lol. Glory be to God!❤

Ephesians 4:26: “Be wrathful, but do not sin; do not let the sun set while you are still angry.”

God Bless you Fr! Very helpful!!

I appreciate this greatly. I have a temper which can flare up quite suddenly, and it sometimes manifests against my young son. I need to moderate this - but as you said, also acknowledge that there is some good from it, if clemency prevails.

Thank you, Father Pine, for this commentary on anger. I, for one, struggle with this emotion a lot. It is edifying to hear that anger is not always destructive to the person who has such an emotion. It is in how one channels that emotion that determines how morally virtuous or lacking in virtue that it is. I think there are many in the Christian community that look at anger as inherently sinful. These people, unfortunately, are not looking at this emotion from a Biblical perspective. Rather, they are allowing the ideas of spirituality derived from eastern mysticism and new age gurus to cloud their perspective. In such religious traditions, emotions are seen as an encumbrance to enlightenment, and detachment from feelings of anger or sadness is seen as a way to truly achieve transcendence. From a Christian vantage point, this is wrong, as every emotion is a gift of God. To numb ourselves to these gifts makes us less spiritual, not more.

Thank you, this is a timely message for me.

I have lived with a bad temper. Several people in my lineage have dealt with it. Thank you for this!

This is very helpful. Thank you, Father. God bless!

I wish I could feel my anger. It’s too big. There’s no place for it and it’s been repressed for so long. I feel it consuming me but I feel like I can’t even access it. I’m just numb.

Helpful. Appreciate it!

An emotion or feeling is not sinful. Uncontrolled inappropriate anger is. Anger that leads to virtuous action is good.

As a more Stoic minded person the answer is yes

Is anger a sin? Well, there's this joke that says "If you ask yourself what would Jesus do? Remind yourself that making then lashing a whip & flipping tables are not out of the realm of possibility." 😂

No. The feeling isn’t a sin but it can lead to sinful actions.

Yes. It is. Pride, Anger, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth.

Thank you Father and thank you Fr. Gregory for this. I felt angry at work this week and this will help my start the new week on a better foot.

Very helpful.

So what if the person you try talking to continuously puts the blame back on you, continuously. It’s exhausting. I’m trying to not ghost, but it’s HORRIBLY difficult.

So I shouldn't hit myself in the chest with a rock like St Jerome?

Anger is one of the worst sins, especially since people justify their own anger as "righteous." Too many people think their anger is virtuous or slight.

Wrath is much more sublime and pleasurable anger is not as focused

Is not helping someone remove a stumbling block a sin?

WHEN WILL WE DOMINICANS RETURN TO THE DOMINICAN RITE?

I got so angry I said I wanted to kill someone, many times. I think I need confession before Holy Communion

I think the easiest basic answer is to ask if God ever got angry or expressed His wrath in the Bible, to which the obvious answer is yes. Since God can't sin, God's anger is obviously not a sin. Since we are made in His image and to carry out His will, it makes sense that there would be some degree of allowance to mimic that. The key is to not assume we know what God's will is, and to be much more cautious to use discernment and reference scripture, etc. to understand if our anger is directed in the right direction so we can adjust accordingly and/or what the proportionate amount of anger is necessary to motivate us towards producing a just and righteous outcome.

"Lets not be foolish, lets not be naive"- Fr Pine. Let's ask a question: what is your opinion on Amoris Laetitia and Fiducia Supplicans? Let's not be foolish. Let's not be naive.

Anger I believe is what I came here to conquer it has been my biggest struggle in life aside from alcoholism.

You have to stay angry to fight the devil. You need the light (the sun or Son) to fight and keep the fire of anger burning. I believe you have taken the Ephesians Bible verses out of context. This is spiritual warfare, not hippie Jesus. The correct and full Ephesians verses 4:26-27 are: BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.

No.