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Im mortified. For years now Ive been a source of temptation to so many of you. Please forgive me! Hear the Lord rebuking Jerusalem through the prophet. For how did thy sister Sodom sin, except in that she ate her BREAD in fulness and abundance? And because through FULNESS OF BREAD they were inflamed with uncontrollable lust of the flesh, they were burnt up by the judgment of God with fire and brimstone from heaven. But if EXCESS OF BREAD alone drove them to such a headlong downfall into sin through the vice of satiety, what shall we think of those who with a vigorous body dare to partake of meat and wine with unbounded licence, taking not just what their bodily frailty demands, but what the eager desire of the mind suggests. St. John Cassian, Institutes, Book Five, Chapter 5, Of the spirit of gluttony.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:07:21 +0000

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