The Darkness of Pride | On Humility and the Fall of Antiochus

About this sermon

“He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.” In this powerful traditional Catholic sermon, Father reflects on the darkness of pride—the sin that blinded the pagan King Antiochus and led to his downfall. Through Scripture, the writings of the Saints, and timeless wisdom, we explore how pride darkens the intellect, destroys humility, and distances the soul from God. Learn how spiritual pride can deceive even the devout, and how humility—true humility—can lift the soul toward Heaven. 📖 Main Themes Covered: The pride and punishment of King Antiochus (1 & 2 Maccabees) How pride blinds even the spiritually zealous Lessons from St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis de Sales, and the Fathers The danger of pride in traditionalism and devotion Humility as the remedy and path to salvation 🙏 “Unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required.” May this sermon inspire true gratitude and humility in all who hear it. ⏱️ Timestamps 0:00 – Introduction: Delivered from the power of darkness 0:34 – The darkness of pride 0:50 – King Antiochus Epiphanes and the revolt of the Maccabees 2:00 – God’s punishment of pride 3:34 – Pride blinds the intellect 4:01 – Spiritual pride and intellectual deception 5:09 – The pride of heresy and false wisdom 6:01 – How pride darkens reason and inflames anger 6:25 – A Thanksgiving reflection: humility over opinion 6:49 – The daughters of pride: disobedience, boastfulness, contention 7:11 – How pride originates in desire for superiority 8:51 – Spiritual blindness and false devotion 9:55 – The temptation of pride among the faithful 10:28 – Pride in traditionalism and external piety 11:12 – The fall of the spiritually proud 11:56 – False humility vs. true virtue 12:41 – Humility through gratitude 13:18 – To whom much is given, much will be required 13:57 – Humility as the most powerful virtue 14:30 – Conclusion and final blessing Please remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest #CatholicSermon #TraditionalCatholic #Homily #CatholicFaith #Humility #Pride #SpiritualPride #LatinMass #CatholicTeaching #FaithAndReason #StThomasAquinas #StFrancisDeSales #CatholicTradition #ChristianVirtues #CatholicYouTube 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Support Catholic Businesses here - https://sensusfidelium.com/catholic-businesses/ Sensus Fidelium Press - https://sensusfideliumpress.com/ Sensus Fidelium Apps - https://sensusfidelium.tv/ Support Sensus Fidelium - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 🙏🏻PLEASE HELP OUR CHANNEL GROW 🙏🏻 ▶️ 1. Become a Channel Patron: https://www.patreon.com/SensusFidelium ▶️ 2. Visit the website https://www.sensusfidelium.us for Gueranger, Saint of the Day, Apologetics, Meditation by the Saints, Scripture Study and more. ▶️ 3. Subscribe to Other Video Platforms 🔴 SensusFidelium.TV - https://sensusfidelium.tv/@SensusFidelium 🔴 BitChute --- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium/ 🔴 Rumble --- https://rumble.com/c/c-298311 🔴 My Catholic Tube - https://mycatholictube.com/videos/sensus-fidelium-channel/ 🔴 LBRY.tv --- https://lbry.tv/@SensusFidelium:c 🔴 ODYSEE - https://odysee.com/@SensusFidelium:c 🔴 UGETube - https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/@Sensus%20Fidelium 🔴 BrandNewTube - https://brandnewtube.com/@SensusFidelium 🔴 GabTV - https://tv.gab.com/channel/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 GloriaTV - https://gloria.tv/Sensus%20Fidelium 🔴 Brighteon - https://www.brighteon.com/channels/sensusfidelium ▶️ 4. Paypal, Bitcoin, Anedot, Stripe, Square & PO Box donations - https://sensusfidelium.com/donate-support/ ▶️ 5. YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔 Please "Like" our videos so that Youtube shares it to others by clicking the "Like" thumbs-up under the video = 👍🏻 ▶️ 6. Please share this video 📲, and help others find Christ inside the Catholic Church! Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the share button. ▶️ 7. Follow on Social Media: 🔴 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SensusFidelium/ 🔴 Twitter: https://https://twitter.com/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 YouTube: Click Subscribe, then Click "Notification Bell" = 🔔 🔴 Parler: https://parler.com/profile/Sensusfidelium/posts 🔴 SP3RN: https://www.sp3rn.com/community/pages/14-sensus-fidelium 🔴 GAB: https://gab.com/Sensus_Fidelium 🔴 Bastyon: https://bastyon.com/sensusfidelium 🔴 GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/sensus_fidelium 🔴 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sensusfidelium/ 🔴 Telegram: https//t.me/RealSensusFidelium ▶️ 8. Follow on iTunes: 🔴 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sensus-fidelium-catholic-podcast/id1477010758

Topics

• Humility
• Repentance
• Pride
• Strength in Hard Times